Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms

This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice.

List of contents

Preface
1. What Is the Adaptable and Temporary City?
2. The Flexible and Inflexible City
3. Adaptability, Activation, and Weak Planning
4. Everyday Adaptability, Coping, and Resilience
5. Adaptability and the “Cool” Artificial City
6. The Pandemic and Postpandemic Adaptable City
7. Knowledge, Skills, and the Delivery of the Adaptable City
8.The Future of Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms
Bibliography
Notes
Index

About the author

Lauren Andres is director of research and professor of planning and urban transformations at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She is coeditor of Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges (2024), among other books.

Summary

This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Andres
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.02.2025
• EAN: 9780231208079
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20807-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, architecture; social science; political science