Engaged urbanism: cities and methodologies

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.

25 Contra BandVI Fabric and Fabrication -- 26 The twin sisters are â#x80;#x98;about toâ#x80;#x99; swap houses: displacement and the bordering practice of matching -- 27 City shapes and urban metaphor -- 28 (In)visible bodies: migrants in the city of gold -- 29 Negotiating space: the artist as creator and enabler of spaces for working, thinking and meeting -- 30 25 demolished houses -- 31 The bridge of sighs -- 32 Materials. Stories -- 33 Buildings on fire: towards a new approach to urban memory -- Contributors