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The Help-yourself City

Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism

by Gordon C. C. Douglas

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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 designers are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts that perpetuate cycles of inequality for disadvantaged communities.

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Released

January 1st 2018

Language

English

ISBN

9780190691349

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