Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space - A Feminist Exploration Into Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in Chicago

Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space examines DIY urbanism from an intersectional feminist analytical framework. The racialized, classed, gendered, and sexualized aspects of DIY urbanism, including its activities, its actors, and its spaces are highlighted, as well as the connections between DIY urbanism and urban political agendas.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Seeing the City through an Intersectional Feminist Lens
Chapter 2: Seeing DIY Urbanism through an Intersectional Feminist Lens
Chapter 3: Institutionalizing DIY Urbanism-the Case of Tactical Urbanism and the Struggle over Public Space
Chapter 4: The Processes, Potholes, Power Struggles, and Possibilities of DIY Urbanism-the Case of Critical Mass in Chicago
Chapter 5: Putting DIY Urbanism in Place-the Case of Sticky Places in Loose DIY Urbanism Spaces

About the author

By Megan E. Heim LaFrombois

Summary

Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space examines DIY urbanism from an intersectional feminist analytical framework. The racialized, classed, gendered, and sexualized aspects of DIY urbanism, including its activities, its actors, and its spaces are highlighted, as well as the connections between DIY urbanism and urban political agendas.

Product details

• Authors: Megan E Heim Lafrombois, Megan E. Heim LaFrombois, Megan Heim Lafrombois
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498548694
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4869-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Chicago, Illinois, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban & municipal planning, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy