Hegel's Hipsters: Claiming Ownership in the Contemporary City

Thorpe, Amelia

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3071552

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“…18 They argue that in such reduction processes, many layers of information are being lost, with the result of producing a 'flattened' picture of urban environments. The introduction of community-led planning methodologies, such as placemaking, presents us with the opportunity to increase again the richness and variety of inputs in the production of urban spaces and allows inhabitants and communities to appropriate the city (Thorpe, 2018). Whereas traditionally, urban planning based on centralized decision-making can be a strongly coded discipline, which allows for slow changes through hierarchical processes (Hillier, 2007), community-led planning such as placemaking are, by nature, local, creative, of fast implementation and 'full of life' through the interaction between dynamic sub-codes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptation of the urban codes – A story of placemaking in Jerusalem

Rosner-Manor

Borghini

Boonstra

et al. 2019

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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The tension between stability and adaptability, and the pursuit for mechanisms that allow cities to face internal and external pressures, is a fundamental question for contemporary urban planners. To understand this tension and to develop a complexity-based perspective for planning action that deals with this tension, we describe the city as a complex assemblage employing adaptive mechanisms in front of rapid change. We argue how processes of coding, decoding and recoding continuously take place in the urban setting and are part of such adaptive mechanisms, in particular where community’s informal codes diverge from formal practices. In this context, we examine ‘placemaking’ as an urban mechanism whose function is not only to allow different local voices to express themselves, but also to assist in updating and adapting the ‘urban DNA’ to the city constituents and their diversity. The placemaking project that took place in Jerusalem over the period 2016–2018 is analysed in this framework. We show how Jerusalem municipality is experimenting with new ways of working with very diverse populations via wide-scale community-led methodologies viewed as part of the city capacity to learn and adapt within a changing environment. We turn to epigenetics, a biological field researching micro- and macro-evolutionary mechanisms, to provide us with a theoretical descriptive model that can help represent the impact of such a wide project in both short-term and long-term recoding at the level of urban rules and regulations. This allows us to identify relevant operational mechanisms yielding novelty in approach to the co-existence between formal urban codes and local communities’ strong sub-codes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptation of the urban codes – A story of placemaking in Jerusalem

Rosner-Manor

Borghini

Boonstra

et al. 2019

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…To illustrate, this material intervention/ territorial production is perhaps more evident when it comes to the elaborate DIY indoors skatepark that was essentially handcrafted inside Rog's premises and opened in 2007. The construction of the skatepark manifests the time and effort dedicated to moulding Rog's premises, to afford a communal sense of property and belonging by rearranging its terrain and creating material interventions inalienable from the users' sense of being, similarly to discussions on labour and urban property encountered elsewhere (Blomley, 2004;Cooper, 2007;Thorpe, 2018). This ethos permeated the skating community in Rog for the duration of the occupation, as a user highlighted: "...they're (skaters) a kind of community that really likes to work with their hands and to change (the space) a bit..…”

Section: The Chronotopic Narrative Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog: The Spatiotemporalities of a “Quasi-Public” Urban Squat

Kanellopoulou

Ntounis

2023

Social & Legal Studies

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The paper explores an urban squat in Ljubljana, Slovenia, following a chronotopic narrative approach. Urban squats often represent a manifestation of alternative notions of who belongs where, when, and why, questions that matter when issues pertaining to their legal status are raised. We examine the case of Autonomous Rog, a formerly squatted bike factory area in the city centre of Ljubljana that the Supreme Court of Slovenia described as “quasi-public.” The paper welcomes the Slovenian Supreme Court's ability to appreciate the social, spatiotemporal, and material elements that make up this idiotropic type of urban space, moving beyond the confines of human-centred legal analysis. We present the journey of Autonomous Rog through three distinctive chronotopic viewpoints, in order to accentuate the subversive human and material properties that found their way into the Slovenian legal system, as we reflect on the law's ability to embrace spatiotemporal representations in an urban context.

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“…In the context of dispossession caused by gentrification, Blomley (1997, 2008) argues for a recognition of collective property as a way to legitimize the rights of the poor as they challenge displacement. Thorpe (2018) also calls for a recognition of non-legal property claims, such as sense of ownership through labor, community, and self-expression, as ways urban residents can control urban space and even shift formal property regimes.…”

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Exposing the legal and bureaucratic underpinnings of gentrification: Municipal property transfers through alley closures in Washington, DC

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2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Scholars acknowledge that property ownership is fundamental to gentrification and that the privatization of public property can exacerbate market-based speculation on urban land. However, few have closely examined how the transfer of municipal property occurs. This article examines the political, legal, and bureaucratic preconditions for the acquisition of municipal land, which underpins gentrification. Drawing on the example of municipal alley closures in Washington, D.C. during the 1970s, this article traces how private developers acquired public land in downtown neighborhoods like the West End. It also traces how residents tried to oppose this acquisition of public property. In following West End residents’ failed attempts to retain control over the use and value of land in their neighborhood, this article exposes the legal and bureaucratic barriers that ordinary urban citizens face in interrupting the processes that contribute to gentrification.

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Hegel's Hipsters: Claiming Ownership in the Contemporary City

Cited by 5 publications

References 52 publications

Adaptation of the urban codes – A story of placemaking in Jerusalem

Adaptation of the urban codes – A story of placemaking in Jerusalem

A Chronotopic Evaluation of Autonomous Rog: The Spatiotemporalities of a “Quasi-Public” Urban Squat

Exposing the legal and bureaucratic underpinnings of gentrification: Municipal property transfers through alley closures in Washington, DC

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