The Help-Yourself City

The Help-Yourself City
Author: Gordon C.C. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0190691360

When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility.

The Help-yourself City

The Help-yourself City
Author: Gordon C. C. Douglas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0190691336

When local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citizens respond? In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at people who take urban planning into their own hands with homemade signs and benches, guerrilla bike lanes and more. Douglas explores the frustration, creativity, and technical expertise behind these interventions, but also the position of privilege from which they often come. Presenting a needed analysis of this growing trend from vacant lots to city planning offices, The Help-Yourself City tells a street-level story of people's relationships to their urban surroundings and the individualization of democratic responsibility.

System

System
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 814
Release: 1909
Genre: Business
ISBN:

City Hall

City Hall
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 740
Release: 1912
Genre: Municipal government
ISBN:

The Tradesman

The Tradesman
Author: John E. MacGowan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1062
Release: 1911
Genre: Industries
ISBN: