Kong at the Gates: guerrilla urbanism and the possibility of resistance

Douglas, Gordon C. C.

doi:10.1057/s41289-020-00111-z

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“…Yet in terms of the question raised in the literature about the potential for the informal and erratic nature of temporary urbanism to contribute to destabilizing the structure of and relationships in official public space and create the possibility for new interactions, meanings, and functions (Douglas 2020;Hou 2010), only quite limited progress in this direction may have been made by the Swing Park. And to the extent that this kind of change will occur only if guerrilla urbanists can find ways to connect with each other across the wide variety of temporary urbanism efforts via networking so that multiple individual efforts add up to bigger change (Holloway 2010;Iveson 2013), certainly Hayes and beintween continued to undertake temporary urbanism efforts that included collaboration, such as with community groups, the City of Milwaukee, and NEWaukee on the ARTery using Kickstarter funds.…”

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Milwaukee’s Swing Park: Guerrilla Urbanism at the Intersection of Public Space, Community, and Urban Planning

McCarthy

2024

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Guerrilla urbanism involves citizen-led bottom-up unsanctioned temporary efforts. This kind of temporary urbanism may offer unique opportunities not possible through traditional planning approaches. This paper is a case study of the Swing Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. It began as an effort to temporarily enliven an area at one end of a pedestrian walkway – the Marsupial Bridge – suspended under a viaduct across the Milwaukee River. What started as an illegal temporary installation of swings made of used tires was embraced physically and emotionally as part of the everyday life of the pedestrian bridge by the local community who wanted the swings to stay. The guerrilla urbanism group found itself in conflict with the City’s Department of Public Works over concerns about safety and legal liability, aside from budgetary constraints on permanently upgrading and maintaining the swings. This paper conceptualizes the case study within a three-part framework of public space, community, and urban planning. It examines how the Swing Park has been seen to have both succeeded and failed, while problematizing it within the context of the interdisciplinary literature on temporary urbanism.

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Milwaukee’s Swing Park: Guerrilla Urbanism at the Intersection of Public Space, Community, and Urban Planning

McCarthy

2024

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“…The use of tactical urbanism -bringing about long-term changes through the verification of short-term effects -has recently been on the rise overseas (Silva, 2016;Haydn & Temel, 2006;McGuire, 2017;Webb, 2018). A growing uncertainty about the success of long-term urban planning, combined with the failure of existing urban regeneration schemes, has played a part in increasing urban regeneration projects using tactical urbanism Mould, 2014;Douglas, 2020). Tactical urbanism constitutes an approach employed to achieve goals by compensating for existing urban planning schemes' limitations and responding to pending urban regeneration issues in a flexible manner.…”

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A Study on the Impact of Tactical Urbanism Applied in Seoul on Change in Perception of Placeness

Seo¹,

Kwon²

2021

Proceedings of the 57th ISOCARP World Planning Congress

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The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of tactical urbanism applied in Seoul on the formative factors of placeness and change in perception of placeness. To this end, a survey of visitors to ten locations that have used tactical urbanism in Seoul has been conducted, and the results were analyzed. The findings of research are as follows: First, the better the characteristics of tactical urbanism were perceived, the better the formative factors of placeness of a target area were also recognized. Second, the characteristics of tactical urbanism did not directly affect change in perception of placeness. Third, the formative factors of placeness of a location using tactical urbanism had a significant effect on change in perception of placeness. Fourth, when the characteristics of tactical urbanism affect change in perception of placeness, the formative factors of placeness play a mediating role.

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Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning

2023

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Kong at the Gates: guerrilla urbanism and the possibility of resistance

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Milwaukee’s Swing Park: Guerrilla Urbanism at the Intersection of Public Space, Community, and Urban Planning

Milwaukee’s Swing Park: Guerrilla Urbanism at the Intersection of Public Space, Community, and Urban Planning

A Study on the Impact of Tactical Urbanism Applied in Seoul on Change in Perception of Placeness

Where Relational Commons Take Place: The City and its Social Infrastructure as Sites of Commoning

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