Hug MARCH, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Ramon RIBERA-FUMAZ, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Julie WILSON, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Temporary urbanism has become an integral part of urban regeneration projects across the world in the last two decades through the mobilization of different concepts: meanwhile spaces, tactical urbanism, pop-up shops, guerilla urbanism, ephemeral urbanism, etc. In all their diversity, temporary urbanism strategies have arguably gone mainstream, embedded within a growing debate on their role in shaping alternative urban futures. On the one hand, advocates of temporary urbanism claim that temporary uses may open up the possibility to explore and design new urban solutions; (re)configurations that can help tackle current social, economic and environmental challenges while re-imagining the city of the future (Martin et al 2020; Lidon and Garcia 2015). On the other hand, there is a growing literature that critically interrogates the increasing role of temporary urbanism as part of neoliberal urbanization and austerity urbanism (Peck 2012; Brenner, 2015; Ferreri 2021). In this regard, this paper explores the potential and limits of temporary urbanism based on the use of meanwhile spaces in eight regeneration projects in Barcelona, Dortmund, Florence, Lodz, London, Marseille, New York, and Shanghai. Case studies explored within the project, T-Factor, Unleashing future-facing urban hubs through culture and creativity-led strategies of transformative time.
Mots clés : Temporary Urbanism|Meanwhile Spaces|Urban regeneration|neoliberalism
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