Owning the Street
Owning the Street How local, specific, and personal understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city.In Owning the Street, Amelia Thorpe examines everyday…
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Owning the Street
How local, specific, and personal understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city.In Owning the Street, Amelia Thorpe examines everyday experiences of and feelings about property and belonging in contemporary cities. A popular and highly recognizable example of DIY Urbanism, PARK(ing) Day has attracted considerable media attention, but has not yet been the subject of close scholarly examination. She grounds her account in an empirical study of PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that reclaims street space from cars.
Focusing on the event's trajectories in San Francisco, Sydney, and Montreal, Thorpe addresses this gap, making use of extensive interview data, field work, and careful reflection to explore these tiny, temporary, and often transformative
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