Owning the Street
The Everyday Life of Property
Published on 15. December 2020
344 pages
978-0-262-36091-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Amelia Thorpe is Associate Professor in Law at the University of New South Wales.
Content
Introduction
Part One: A PARK(ing) Movement?
1 From PARK(ing) to PARK(ing) Day
2 Moving Things Along
Part Two: Property and the Performance of Legality
3 PARK(ing) Law: Pluralism and Performance
4 Properties of PARK(ing)
5 Building Ownership
6 Performing Property
Part Three: Politics and Possibility
7 Products of PARK(ing)
Postscript
Notes
Index
Part One: A PARK(ing) Movement?
1 From PARK(ing) to PARK(ing) Day
2 Moving Things Along
Part Two: Property and the Performance of Legality
3 PARK(ing) Law: Pluralism and Performance
4 Properties of PARK(ing)
5 Building Ownership
6 Performing Property
Part Three: Politics and Possibility
7 Products of PARK(ing)
Postscript
Notes
Index
