Harris Ella (Birkbeck University Of London Uk)
Harris Ella (Birkbeck University Of London Uk) - Rebranding Precarity Pop - Up Culture As The Seductive New Normal - Paperback
Harris Ella (Birkbeck University Of London Uk) - Rebranding Precarity Pop - Up Culture As The Seductive New Normal - Paperback
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Description: Pop - up is a fully - fledged new urbanism. Celebrated as a flexible and exciting new form of place making pop - up culture includes temporary or nomadic sites such as cinemas container malls supper clubs even pop - up housing and is now ubiquitous in cities across the world. But what are the stakes of the pop - up city? Traversing a wealth of fascinating case studies Rebranding Precarity shows how pop - up works to rebrand insecurity and encourages us to embrace precarity as the new normal. Revealing how urban crisis has particular temporal and spatial characteristics defined by uncertainty instability fractures and gaps it illuminates how those markers of crisis have been optimistically reimagined over the last few years through an examination of seven logics that rebrand insecurity including within housing labour economies and gentrifying areas. In doing so it paints a frightening picture of how crisis conditions have become not just accepted but are in fact desired in today's metropolis.
Title: Rebranding Precarity Pop - Up Culture As The Seductive New Normal
Author(s): Harris Ella (Birkbeck University Of London Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781786999825
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/29/2020
Category: Political Geography
Description: Pop - up is a fully - fledged new urbanism. Celebrated as a flexible and exciting new form of place making pop - up culture includes temporary or nomadic sites such as cinemas container malls supper clubs even pop - up housing and is now ubiquitous in cities across the world. But what are the stakes of the pop - up city? Traversing a wealth of fascinating case studies Rebranding Precarity shows how pop - up works to rebrand insecurity and encourages us to embrace precarity as the new normal. Revealing how urban crisis has particular temporal and spatial characteristics defined by uncertainty instability fractures and gaps it illuminates how those markers of crisis have been optimistically reimagined over the last few years through an examination of seven logics that rebrand insecurity including within housing labour economies and gentrifying areas. In doing so it paints a frightening picture of how crisis conditions have become not just accepted but are in fact desired in today's metropolis.
Title: Rebranding Precarity Pop - Up Culture As The Seductive New Normal
Author(s): Harris Ella (Birkbeck University Of London Uk)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781786999825
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 10/29/2020
Category: Political Geography
