The Help-Yourself City
Douglas
In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed 'do-it-yourself urban design' and exposes the ways that DIY urban design are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts that perpetuate cycles of inequality for disadvantaged communities. ...
Sinopsis
In The Help-Yourself City, Gordon Douglas looks closely at the people who take urban planning into their own hands, dubbed 'do-it-yourself urban design' and exposes the ways that DIY urban design are increasingly celebrated and appropriated into economic development efforts that perpetuate cycles of inequality for disadvantaged communities.