Insurgent Public Space : Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (Paperback)

1. (Not) Your Everyday Public Space Jeffrey Hou Part 1: Appropriating 2. Dancing in the Streets of Beijing: Improvised Uses within the Urban SystemCaroline Chen 3. Latino Urbanism in Los Angeles: A Model for Urban Improvisation and ReinventionJames Rojas 4. Taking Place: Rebar’s Absurd Tactics in Generous Urbanism Blaine Merker for Rebar Part2: Reclaiming 5. eXperimentcity: Culturing + Publicizing Sustainable Development of Berlin’s Freiraume Michael A. LaFond 6. Re-City, Tokyo: Putting "Publicness" into the Urban Building Stocks Shin Aiba and Osamu Nishida 7. Claiming Residual Spaces in the Heterogeneous City Erick Villagomez Part3: Pluralizing 8. Claiming Latino Space: Building Cultural Capacity in the Public Realm Michael Rios 9. ‘ Night Market’ in Seattle: Community Eventscape and the Remaking of Public Space Jeffrey Hou 10. Making Places of Fusion and Resistance: the Experiences of Immigrant Women in Taiwanese Townships Hung-Ying Chen and Jia-He Lin 11. How Outsiders Find Home in the City: Chung Shan in Taipei Pina Wu Part 4: Transgressing 12. Machizukuri House and Its Expanding Networks: Making New Public Realm in Private HomesYasuyoshi Hayashi 13. Niwaroju: Private Gardens Serving the Public Realm Isami Kinoshita 14. Farmhouses as Urban/Rural Public Space Sawako Ono, Ryoko Sato, and Mima Nishiyama Part 5: Uncovering 15. Urban Archives: Public Memories of Everyday Places Irina Gendelman, Tom Dobrowolsky, and Giorgia Aiello 16. Funny…It Doesn’t Look Like Insurgent Space: the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets and the Practice of History as a Public Art Jeannene Przyblyski 17. Mapping the Space of Desire: Brothel as a City Landmark Yung-Teen Annie Chiu 18. Spatial Limbo: Re-inscribing Landscapes in Temporal Suspension Min Jay Kang Part6: Contesting 19. Public Space Activism, Toronto and Vancouver: Using the Banner of Public Space to Build Capacity and Activate Change Andrew Pask 20. Urban Agriculture in the Making of Insurgent Spaces in Los Angeles and Seattle Teresa M. Mares and Devon G. Pena 21. When Overwhelming Needs Meets Underwhelming Prospects: Sustaining Community Open Space Activism in East St. Louis Laura Lawson and Janni Sorensen