Seeding Urban Transformation: Tactical Urbanism for Systemic Regeneration

Author:   Chris L. Smith ,  Suzanne Ewing ,  Lily Chi
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
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Pages:   325
Publication Date:   26 May 2026
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Seeding Urban Transformation: Tactical Urbanism for Systemic Regeneration


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Author:   Chris L. Smith ,  Suzanne Ewing ,  Lily Chi
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9789819535576


ISBN 10:   9819535573
Pages:   325
Publication Date:   26 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Part 1: Tactical Engagements.- Chapter 1: Architectural Silence in a ‘Vibrant’ City: The Garage as a Clearing.- Chapter 2: “It’s not sexy stuff”: Incremental urban improvement in central Johannesburg.- Chapter 3: Fluid Commons: Towards Infrastructures of Production and Care in the.- Chapter 4: On Ditching: Towards Tactical Grounding in the Black Dirt.- Part 2: Seminal Technologies.- Chapter 5: Harnessing New Frameworks for Spatial Equity and New Spatial Assets: A Harlem Study.- Chapter 6: The Hack: Disrupting and Seeding Change.- Chapter 7: The Violence of the Off-scenes: The Gap Between the Petroleum Production and Consumption.- Part 3: Strategic Events.- Chapter 8: Urban Seeding as Multispecies Politics: Louis Le Roy's Ecocathedral.- Chapter 9: A Design Perspective of Participatory Placemaking With(in) Publics and Places.- Chapter 10: Planting Communities: Small Urban Green Spaces as a Socio-Spatial Infrastructural Strategy in Taipei City.- Chapter 11: Conversation with Natura Futura.- Part 4: Systemic change.- Chapter 12: Encounters in the Urban Mesocosm: Charting entanglements between humans and nonhumans in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.- Chapter 13: Minor Infrastructuralism.- Chapter 14: The Logistic Time of Unsettlement.- Chapter 15: Public Spaces Reimagined: The Influence of Minor Urbanism.

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Chris L. Smith is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Sydney, Australia. Suzanne Ewing is Professor of Architectural Criticism in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at The University of Edinburgh, UK. Lily Chi is Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University, USA.

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