Transience and Permanence in Urban Development

The first substantive, critical review of temporary urban uses, Transience and Permanence in Urban Development is essential reading for academics, policy makers, practitioners and students of cities worldwide. It examines the following issues from different disciplinary perspectives:

• conceptualisations of transience and permanence
• theories of urban development, especially their treatment of obsolescence and redevelopment
• the causes and consequences of vacancy and dereliction
• temporary uses as means of displacement, exploitation, commodification, valorisation, transformation, benefit, innovation, experimentation, inclusion, exclusion, insurgency and challenge
• the relation between shorter and longer term uses, including the embedding of temporary uses, their re-casting of the urban agenda and their subversion of or appropriation by the mainstream
• evolving informal and formal planning, policy and practice in relation temporary uses.