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    Cities in time : temporary urbanism and the future of the city / Ali Madanipour.

    • Title:Cities in time : temporary urbanism and the future of the city / Ali Madanipour.
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    • Author/Creator:Madanipour, Ali, author.
    • Published/Created:London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
      ©2017
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Urbanization.
      Time--Social aspects.
    • Description:xi, 198 pages ; 25 cm
    • Summary:"From street-markets and pop-up shops to art installations and Olympic parks, the temporary use of urban space is a growing international trend in architecture and urban design. Partly a response to economic and ecological crisis, it also claims to offer a critique of the status quo and an innovative way forward for the urban future. Cities in Time aims to explore and understand the phenomenon, offering a first critical and theoretical evaluation of temporary urbanism and its implications for the present and future of our cities. The book argues that temporary urbanism needs to be understood within the broader context of how different concepts of time are embedded in the city. In any urban place, multiple, discordant and diverse timeframes are at play - and the chapters here explore these different conceptions of temporality, their causes and their effects. Themes explored include how institutionalised time regulates everyday urban life, how technological and economic changes have accelerated the city's rhythms, our existential and personal senses of time, concepts of memory and identity, virtual spaces, ephemerality and permanence"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781474220712 paperback
      1474220711 paperback
      9781474220729 hardcover
      147422072X hardcover
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Multiple Times of the City
      pt. One Instrumental Temporality
      2. Regulating Change, Reifying Time
      3. Accelerated Beats of Global Time
      pt. Two Existential Temporality
      4. Temporality, Memory and Identity
      5. Nature, Time and Anxiety
      pt. Three Experimental Temporality
      6. Events and Prospects
      7. Cities in Time.
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