Skateboarding and the City

Name: Skateboarding and the City
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781472583451
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A Complete History

By Professor Iain Borden

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Summary

Skateboarding and the City offers the first comprehensive history of skateboarding, tracing its roots from 1960s California surf culture to contemporary street-skating scenes. Written by Professor Iain Borden, a lifelong skater and architectural historian, the book combines vibrant full-colour images with deep analysis of how skateboarding shapes and interacts with urban architecture and culture.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book is ideal for skateboarders, urban studies enthusiasts, architectural historians, and readers interested in the cultural and physical dynamics of cities through skateboarding.

Description

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.

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The book is superbly researched and beautifully illustrated, combining the elegance of a coffee-table book with rigorous scholarship, drawing on the testimony of skateboarders. It is described as thought-provoking and highly recommended for those interested in skateboarding and urban spaces. While previous works by the author have been praised for their insight and depth, this volume continues to appeal both to scholars and skateboarders alike.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781472583451

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 February 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Illustration: 200 colour illus

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 218.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 1292g

Pages: 384

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About the Author

Iain Borden is Professor of Architecture & Urban Culture, and Vice-Dean Education, at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. Alongside numerous academic publications on architecture, cities, critical theory, public space, film and photography, Iain has been a skateboarder for over 40 years, and has advised numerous city authorities, charities, developers and the media about skateboarding culture and skateparks.