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Cities are typically thought of as permanent. Structures, streets, infrastructure, and other features of the built environment, even if they are periodically replaced, are intended to endure. But temporary, flexible spaces and uses are essential to how cities function and the ways urban dwellers inhabit them. Such adaptability, moreover, is fundamental if cities are to meet the challenges of the future.
This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice. It brings together many distinct forms and facets of temporariness and adaptability—from sites of consumption by privileged residents to the survival strategies of marginalized groups—drawing on examples spanning five continents. Lauren Andres explores the driving forces of adaptability as well as the power dynamics and tensions between temporariness and permanence. She highlights how adaptability enhances livability, sustainability, and resilience, showing its importance for addressing crises such as climate change, socioeconomic inequalities, and pandemics. Authoritative and wide-ranging, Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms reveals why experimentation and creativity are crucial to the present and future of cities.
— Peter Bishop, coeditor of Design for London: Experiments in Urban Thinking
Lauren Andres establishes a compelling framework for understanding how adaptability and temporariness contribute to urban vibrancy, address crises, and are fundamental to what makes a city a city. A must-read for students, scholars, and policy makers, Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms suggests that adaptability and temporariness offer pathways to achieving urban equity, creativity, sustainability, and resilience.
— Shauna Brail, author of Urban Mobility: How the iPhone, COVID, and Climate Changed Everything
Critiquing the inadequacy and rigidity of responses to urban instability and inequality, Andres draws on research from different continents to weave together the concepts of temporary urbanism and adaptability. She makes a persuasive argument for the necessity of creativity and experimentation in urban theory and practice.
— Ali Madanipour, author of Cities in Time: Temporary Urbanism and the Future of the City
Accessible and clearly written.
This original book shows scholars, students, and practitioners a way forward. It expands and enriches understanding of cities, complementing the scholarship on pop-up, DIY, and tactical urbanism with important practical lessons.
Preface
1. What Is the Adaptable and Temporary City?
2. The Flexible and Inflexible City
3. Adaptability, Activation, and Weak Planning
4. Everyday Adaptability, Coping, and Resilience
5. Adaptability and the “Cool” Artificial City
6. The Pandemic and Postpandemic Adaptable City
7. Knowledge, Skills, and the Delivery of the Adaptable City
8.The Future of Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms
Bibliography
Notes
Index