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Reimagining the Urban: Margaret Crawford

This entry was posted in Blog Reimagining the Urban - September 2013 and tagged Reimagining the Urban everyday urbanism Los Angeles social product on by .

In the early 1990s, I started working with scholars, urban designers, photographers, and writers on a project exploring everyday urban life in Los Angeles. In 1999, we published Everyday Urbanism as a guide to investigating the “as-found” character of the city. We identified everyday urban space as a rich and complex public realm created by the multiplicities of daily experience– trips to supermarkets, the commute to work, journeys that included wide boulevards and mini-malls, luxurious stores and street vendors, manicured lawns and dilapidated public parks.

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City, Arts and Public Spaces: Margaret Crawford

This entry was posted in Blog City Arts and Public Spaces - June 2013 and tagged everyday urbanism Los Angeles City Arts and Public Spaces urban theory on by .

In the early 1990s, I started working with scholars, urban designers, photographers, and writers on a project exploring everyday urban life in Los Angeles. In 1999, we published Everyday Urbanismas a guide to investigating the “as-found” character of the city. We identified everyday urban space as a rich and complex public realm created by the multiplicities of daily experience– trips to supermarkets, the commute to work, journeys that included wide boulevards and mini-malls, luxurious stores and street vendors, manicured lawns and dilapidated public parks.

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