Iain Borden

Skateboarding and the City (eBook, PDF)

A Complete History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions - a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart.

Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images - of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills - this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472583482
• Artikelnr.: 55044658

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Introduction SECTION ONE Skateboard Scenes
2. Skateboards Scooters and Surfing Old School New School 3. Living by the
Board Freaks and Geeks Everything in Between Home Turf and Foreign Lands
Beer and Barneys Positive and Loving Middle Age Shred All Girl Skate Jam
Polycultural Practices 4. Affiliate Worlds Being Professional Companies and
Brands Organizations and Control Boom Boom HuckJam 5. Media Worlds Truth
and Screw the Consequences Wide-Angled Viewing Skateboarding at the Movies
Video Worlds Social Media SECTION TWO Skateboarding 6. Found Space Asphalt
and Concrete Waves Forevers Into the Deep End Blue Tile Obsession 7.
Skatopia Concrete Utopia Mutant Wood 8. Skatepark Renaissance A New Dawn
Plazas and Paths Terrain Vague DIY Skatepark Worlds 9. Super-Architectural
Space Body Space Ask the Coping Flow Projecting 10. Skate and Destroy The
City is the Hardware Zero Degree Architecture Urban Rhythms Writing the
City Decentred Objects Speaking the City 11. Movement Without Words
Critical Citizens Beyond the Shiny Product Gifts of Freedom Ban This
Skateboarding is Not a Crime SECTION THREE Skate and Create 12. Artistry
Graphic Design Art Skateable Sculpture Creativity 13. Do It For Others
Public Space Moving History Healthy Living Building Business Building Lives
14. Skateboarding - a Magnificent Life? References Bibliography Index