Urban surfaces, graffiti, and the right to the city
"This landmark book focuses entirely on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and their role in struggles for the right to the city. Graffiti, pristine walls, advertising posters, and municipal signage all compete on city surfaces to establish and imprint their values on...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2024
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| Schriftenreihe: | Space, materiality and the normative
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This landmark book focuses entirely on urban surfaces, on exploring their authorship and management, and their role in struggles for the right to the city. Graffiti, pristine walls, advertising posters, and municipal signage all compete on city surfaces to establish and imprint their values on our environments. It is the first time that the surfacescapes of our cities are granted the entire attention of a book, as material, visual, and legal territories. The book includes a critical history of graffiti and street art as contested surface discourses; and argues for surfaces as sites of resistance against private property, neoliberal creativity, and the imposition of urban order. It also proposes a 7-point manual for a semiotics of urban surfaces, laying the ground for a new discipline: surface studies. Page after page, and layer after layer, surfaces become porous and political, and emerge as key spatial conditions for re-thinking and re-practicing urban dwelling and spatial justice. They become what the author terms the surface commons. |
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| Beschreibung: | viii, 203 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781032016559 978-1-032-01655-9 1032016558 1-032-01655-8 9781032597515 978-1-032-59751-5 1032597518 1-032-59751-8 |