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The Help-Yourself City : Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism by Douglas, Gordon C.C. is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Help-Yourself City : Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism about?
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.
Who reads The Help-Yourself City : Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Douglas, Gordon C.C.
- Publisher
- IRL Press at Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190691363
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, Sociology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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