Owning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780262539784)

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. She grounds her account in an empirical study of PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that reclaims street space from cars. 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. 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 interventions.

Author: Amelia Thorpe
ISBN-10: 0262539780
ISBN-13: 9780262539784
Publisher: MIT Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2020
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d