The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism : Normalising Precarity in Austerity London.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Temporary urbanism: a situated approach -- Reclaiming spaces and the role of temporariness -- The trope of temporariness as alterity -- For a situated approach to temporary urbanism -- 'Post-crisis' London -- The book's questions -- Bibliography -- 2. The entangled field of temporary urbanism -- The emergence of a discourse -- Countering recessional perceptions -- 'Creative' fillers -- Art showcasing to the world: pop-ups in the shadow of the 2012 Games -- The rise of the pop-up intermediary -- Meanwhilers: a clever rebranding -- The Meanwhile London Competition -- Enrolling urban professionals in the shift to austerity -- The unresolved question of unlawful occupations -- Conclusions: the primacy of property -- Bibliography -- 3. 'Not a pop-up!' -- The experience of performers and visual artists -- A well-established history -- 'Provided you can beg, steal or borrow a space' -- Group+Work and 1990s myths in public commissioning -- Pop-ups in Westminster -- ArtEvict in 'forgotten spaces' -- Settling down in Hackney Wick Fish Island? -- Pop-up spaces as festivals and digital arts incubators -- Conclusions: in the cracks of the creative city promise -- Bibliography -- 4. Staging temporary spaces -- Experiential economies and the performativity of urban activation -- Staging 'pop-up shops' in the Elephant &amp -- Castle Shopping Centre -- The Elephant as a site for community engagement -- Studio at the Elephant -- A strategy of open programming -- Visibility for recognition -- Mediating face-to-face interactions -- Empowerment for surrender? -- Conclusions: the openness of agonistic encounters -- Bibliography -- 5. Planning a temporary city of on-demand communities -- Temporariness in planning at times of austerity -- 'Stitching the fringes' before and after the Olympics.

Learning from Others: interim uses as urban 'testing sites' -- Vacant land and setting up a temporary community hub -- Young people and the two communities -- Risky grassroot -- Temporary urban vitality in the LLDC Local Plan (2015-2031) -- 'Seeding' long-term uses -- Learning to become 'on-demand communities' -- Conclusions: the risk of planned precarisation -- Bibliography -- 6. The normalisation of temporariness -- Underused spaces as a 'problem' -- The projective logic -- Ephemeral architectures -- Urban festivalisation and labour precarity -- Permanent times of uncertainty -- Tactical or precarious acting? -- Precarity as temporal foreclosure -- Reclaiming urban space-time after the pop-up -- Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index.

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