Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide....
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Author: Iain Borden
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Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body by Borden, Iain

Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

$878.24

Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

$878.24
Author: Iain Borden
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating of the present day and shows how skateboarders experience and understand the city through their sport. Dismissive of authority and convention, skateboarders suggest that the city is not just a place for working and shopping but a true pleasure-ground, a place where the human body, emotions and energy can be expressed to the full.

The huge skateboarding subculture that revolves around graphically-designed clothes and boards, music, slang and moves provides a rich resource for exploring issues of gender, race, class, sexuality and the family. As the author demonstrates, street-style skateboarding, especially characteristic of recent decades, conducts a performative critique of architecture, the city and capitalism. Anyone interested in the history and sociology of sport, urban geography or architecture will find this book riveting.

Author: Iain Borden
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781859734933

About the Author
Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College Londo

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