Engaged Urbanism showcases the exciting ways in which urbanists are responding to this question and working towards fairer cities. Its authors offer succinct, candid and carefully illustrated commentaries on the trials and successes of risk-taking research, revealing how they collaborate across fields of expertise, inventing or adapting methods to suit bespoke situations. Featuring novel uses and combinations of practice-from activism, architectural design and undercover journalism, to film, sculpture, performance and photography- in a diversity of cities such as Beirut, Johannesburg, Kisumu, London and Rio de Janeiro, Engaged Urbanism demonstrates how some of the greatest challenges for present and future populations are being rigorously and creatively addressed.

Contents

Preface
Introduction Ben Campkin & Ger Duijzings
I: FRAMES
1 Cities Methodologies matter: comparative urbanism and global urban theory
Jennifer Robinson
2 Methods, metaphors and the interdisciplinary terrain of urban research
Matthew Gandy
II: SITE-SPECIFIC COLLABORATIONS
3 Site-writing
Jane Rendell with Adriana Keramida, Povilas Marozas, Mrinal Rammohan
4 Towards an architecture of engagement: researching contested urbanism and informalities
Camillo Boano, Caroline Newton and Giorgio Talocci
5 ' Worlding' the studio: methodological experiments and the art of being social
Suzanne Hall and Juliet Davis
III: PERFORMANCE AND PARTICIPATION
6 From 'heroin' to heroines
David Roberts with Anne Louise Buckley, Briony Campbell, Chantel Forrester, Elam Forrester, Jahcheyse Forrester, Lorna Forrester, Rosie Fowler, Taina Galis, Steve Hart, Therese Henningsen, Lasse Johansson, Gillian McIver-Tanbouli, Lewis Osbourne, Eric Phillip, Adam Rosenthal, Georgia Sangster, Ruth-Marie Tunkara, Smart Urhiofe, Julie Vandemark, Julia Vandemark, Cathy Ward and Andrea Luka Zimmerman
7 Four palimpsests on the erasure of the Heygate Estate
Felipe Lanuza Rilling
8 Hacking London's demolition decisions: a new collaboration to scrutinise the technical justifications for retrofit, refurbishment and demolition
Kate Crawford with Sarah Bell, Felicity Davies, Charlotte Johnson, Sunyoung Joo, Sharon Hayward
and Richard Lee
9 Authoring the neighbourhood in Wikipedia
Rebecca Ross and Chi Nguyen
10 ' The secret security guard': being a G4S employee during the London Olympic Games
Henrietta Williams
11 Hide and seek: the dubious nature of plant life in high-security spaces
Max Colson
IV: SITUATING IMAGES AND IMAGINARIES
12 The ups and downs of visualising contemporary Mumbai
Andrew Harris
13 Creating systematic records through time: the destruction and reconstruction of heritage areas affected by earthquakes in Chile
Bernadette Devilat
14 Paint. Buff. Shoot. Repeat: rephotographing graffiti in London
Sabina Andron
15 Critical urban learning through participatory photography
Alexandre Apsan Frediani and Laura Hirst
16 Assisted Self-Portraits and GUESTures: excerpts from a discussion on photography and participation
Margareta Kern and Anthony Luvera
17 Picturing place: the agency of images in urban change
Ben Campkin, Rebecca Ross and Mariana Mogilevich
18 'S eeing is believing': the social life of urban decay and rebirth
Wes Aelbrecht
19 ' We thought we were making the car but it was the other way around': historical pathways and the ecology of the street network in industrial and post-industrial Detroit
Sophia Psarra
V: EMBODIED CARTOGRAPHIES
20 Lebensraum/Living Space
Ger Duijzings and Rastko Novakovi?
21 Abdication and arrival: using an open-ended, collaborator-led ethnography to explore constructions of newly encountered cities
Andrew Stevenson
22 Learning to walk: on curating a walking methodologies programme
ThienVinh Nguyen
23 I hear sounds inside my head
Joanna Rajkowska
24 Charting smellscapes
M?d?lina Diaconu
25 Contra Band
Leah Lovett
VI: FABRIC AND FABRICATION
26 The Twin Sisters Are 'About to' Swap Houses: displacement and the bordering practice of matching
Mohamad Hafeda
27 City shapes and urban metaphor
John Aiken
28 (In)visible bodies: migrants in the city of gold
Johan Thom
29 Negotiating space: the artist working as a creator and enabler of spaces for working, thinking and meeting
Kieren Reed
30 Twenty-five demolished houses
Mircea Nicolae
31 The bridge of sighs
Henrietta Simson and Jo Volley
32 Material, Stories
Hilary Powell
33 Building on fire: towards a new approach to urban memory
Stamatis Zografos
Notes on contributors
Index

Ben Campkin is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, and Director of UCL s Urban Laboratory. He is the author of Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture (2015), which received the 2015 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Foundation Book Award. Ger Duijzings is Professor in Social Anthropology at the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies, Universitat Regensburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Mu nchen, Germany. He was until 2014 Co-Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory. His most recent book is Global Villages: Rural and Urban Transformations in Contemporary Bulgaria (2013)."