The help-yourself city : legitimacy and inequality in DIY urbanism / Gordon C.C. Douglas.
In 'The Help-Yourself City', Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed 'do-it-yourself urban design' and exposes the ways that DIY urban designers are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts...
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Full Text (via Oxford Scholarship Online) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | In 'The Help-Yourself City', Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed 'do-it-yourself urban design' and exposes the ways that DIY urban designers are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts that perpetuate cycles of inequality for disadvantaged communities. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2018. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190691349 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190691332.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 11, 2017) |