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The help-yourself city : legitimacy and inequality in DIY urbanism /

In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed ""do-it-yourself urban design"" and exposes the ways that DIY urban design are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Douglas, Gordon C. C. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
City planning > Citizen participation.
Community development.
Urbanisme participatif.
Développement communautaire.
community development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
City planning > Citizen participation
Community development
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed ""do-it-yourself urban design"" and exposes the ways that DIY urban design are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts that perpetuate cycles of inequality for disadvantaged communities
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780190691356
0190691352
9780190691349
0190691344