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Ali Madanipour has produced with this expertly written book a long overdue theoretical contextualisation of Temporary Urbanism. By taking three different notions of time - instrumental, existential, and experimental - the book delivers a striking conceptual approach and multidimensional understanding of Temporary Urbanism that goes far beyond the numerous studies and texts published over the last decade. Florian Kossak, Senior Lecturer for Urban History, Theory and Design, University of Sheffield, UK Britain's top theorist of spatial exclusion now tackles the new urban spaces drawing the public in. Madanipour brilliantly shows how temporary urbanism - fleeting fashion in urban design, land-uses and lifestyles - is a symptom of living in fast, but precarious times, as the city itself becomes an ephemeral event. Hilary Silver, Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, USA

Ali Mandanipour has produced with this expertly written book a long overdue theoretical contextualisation of Temporary Urbanism. By taking three different notions of time - instrumental, existential, and experimental - the book delivers a striking conceptual approach and multidimensional understanding of Temporary Urbanism that goes far beyond the numerous studies and texts published over the last decade. Florian Kossak, Senior Lecturer for Urban History, Theory and Design, University of Sheffield, UK

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Ali Madanipour is professor of urban design and director of the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at Newcastle University, UK. In 2010 he was the City of Vienna senior visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna, and in 2011 the Wits-Claude Leon Distinguished Scholar, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published numerous books on planning, design, development and management of cities, which have been translated into many languages. His more recent publications include Critical Concepts in the Built Environment: Planning Theory (2015), Reconsidering Localism, (2015), Urban Design, Space and Society (2014) and Knowledge Economy and the City: Spaces of knowledge (2011).

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