Engaged Urbanism: Cities & Methodologies

Front Cover\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nPreface and Acknowledgements\nEngaged urbanism: situated and experimental methodologies for fairer cities\nI Frames\n	1 Cities methodologies matter: comparative urbanism and global urban theory\n	2 Methods, metaphors and the interdisciplinary terrain of urban research\nII Site-Specific Collaborations\n	3 Site-writing\n	4 Towards an architecture of engagement: researching contested urbanism and informalities\n	5 ‘Worlding’ the studio: methodological experiments and the art of being social\nIII Performance and Participation\n	6 From ‘heroin’ to heroines\n	7 Four palimpsests on the erasure of the Heygate Estate\n	8 Hacking London’s demolition decisions: a new collaboration to scrutinise the technical justifications for retrofit, refurbishment and demolition\n	9 Authoring the neighbourhood in Wikipedia\n	10 The secret security guard: being a G4S employee during the London Olympic Games 2012\n	11 Hide and seek: the dubious nature of plant life in high-security spaces\nIV Situating Images and Imaginaries\n	12 The ups and downs of visualising contemporary Mumbai\n	13 Creating systematic records through time: the destruction and reconstruction of heritage areas affected by earthquakes in Chile\n	14 Paint. Buff. Shoot. Repeat: re-photographing graffiti in London\n	15 Critical urban learning through participatory photography\n	16 Assisted self-portraits and GUESTures: excerpts from a discussion on photography and participation\n	17 Picturing place: the agency of images in urban change\n	18 ’Seeing is believing‘: the social life of urban decay and rebirth\n	19 ’We thought we were making the car but it was the other way around‘: historical pathways and the ecology of the street network in industrial and post-industrial Detroit\nV Embodied Cartographies\n	20 Lebensraum | living space\n	21 Abdication and arrival: using an open-ended, collaborator-led ethnography to explore constructions of newly encountered cities\n	22 Learning to walk: on curating a walking-methodologies programme\n	23 I hear sounds inside my head\n	24 Charting smellscapes\n	25 Contra Band\nVI Fabric and Fabrication\n	26 The twin sisters are ‘about to’ swap houses: displacement and the bordering practice of matching\n	27 City shapes and urban metaphor\n	28 (In)visible bodies: migrants in the city of gold\n	29 Negotiating space: the artist as creator and enabler of spaces for working, thinking and meeting\n	30 25 demolished houses\n	31 The bridge of sighs\n	32 Materials. Stories\n	33 Buildings on fire: towards a new approach to urban memory\nContributors\nIndex