Review of 'Insurgent Public Space: Guerilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities' Jeffrey Hou (Ed) London, Routledge, 2010, xii + 276 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-77965-0 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-41577-966-1 (Paperback)

Abstract

As the title of this book suggests this work is about the claiming and transformation of urban space by those who are often marginalized or excluded within cities. The book groups a series of chapters that provide different narratives on the remaking of cityscapes within the broader themes of appropriating, reclaiming, pluralizing, transgressing, uncovering and contesting. To a certain extent, the sectioning of the collection in this manner seems slightly artificial as each chapter speaks to most of these themes.