{"product_id":"owning-the-street-isbn-9780262539784","title":"Owning the Street","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow local, specific, and personal understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOwning the Street\u003c\/i\u003e, Amelia Thorpe examines everyday experiences of and feelings about property and belonging in contemporary cities. She grounds her account in an empirical study of PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that reclaims street space from cars. A popular and highly recognizable example of DIY Urbanism, PARK(ing) Day has attracted considerable media attention, but has not yet been the subject of close scholarly examination. Focusing on the event's trajectories in San Francisco, Sydney, and Montreal, Thorpe addresses this gap, making use of extensive interview data, field work, and careful reflection to explore these tiny, temporary, and often transformative interventions.Introduction\u003cbr\u003ePart One: A PARK(ing) Movement?\u003cbr\u003e1 From PARK(ing) to PARK(ing) Day\u003cbr\u003e2 Moving Things Along\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Property and the Performance of Legality\u003cbr\u003e3 PARK(ing) Law: Pluralism and Performance\u003cbr\u003e4 Properties of PARK(ing)\u003cbr\u003e5 Building Ownership\u003cbr\u003e6 Performing Property\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: Politics and Possibility\u003cbr\u003e7 Products of PARK(ing)\u003cbr\u003ePostscript\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize from the Socio-Legal Studies Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for an Australian Legal Research Awards Book Award, 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOwning the Street\u003c\/i\u003e should be essential reading for property scholars and for all those using property to understand issues related to citizenship, agency, power, and urban governance.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOwning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property\u003c\/i\u003e is invaluable for everyone interested in the future of cities and especially for those in search of novel ways to radically accomplish incremental change through continued civic creativity, committed talent, and dedication.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLandscape Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Interrelationships between sociology, law and planning are not much explored in scholarly and professional fields of planning, to put it mildly. Amelia Thorpe’s publication, \u003ci\u003eOwning the Street\u003c\/i\u003e, gives a wonderful demonstration of the significance of adopting just such an interdisciplinary perspective. [ . . . ] This inspiring book must be used and discussed in bachelor or master classes of planning schools.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlanning Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAmelia Thorpe’s \u003ci\u003eOwning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking scholarship on the role of user-generated urbanism in shaping the contemporary metropolis. [ . . . ] Thorpe weaves magic through her captivating story-telling style backed by state-of-the-art research to elucidate the role of PARK(ing) Day as a compelling idea which disrupts the status quo to be a zeitgeist, which could revolutionise the contemporary socio-political discourse and inspire the readers to work for a sustainable future.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEmotion, Space and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Owning the Street\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging, charmingly authentic work that highlights how property is too frequently overlooked as local, small-scale, and vernacular. [ . . . ] [It] is an important addition to the burgeoning scholarship of critical property theory and its intersections with the city. Thorpe takes a quirky, playful, and above all transitory intervention into public space, and yields a work that is rich, creative, and enduring in its significance to law, property, and social politics.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLegalities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thorough, thoughtful, and nuanced.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Journal of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOwning the Street: The Everyday Life of Property\u003c\/i\u003e is both a meaningful contribution to property law and sociolegal scholarship, and an important advancement of pop-up and DIY urbanism.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCanadian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e J\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eournal of Law and Jurisprudence\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eOwning the Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e, however, is not about parking spaces as much as about how temporary, bounded moments can reveal longstanding efforts to reimagine a social order.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaw \u0026amp; Social Inquiry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“PARK(ing) Day is a powerful example of small-scale activities by which residents can claim their right ‘to make the city their own work of art' (Roulier, 2022, 597), and Amelia Thorpe’s insightful book does a wonderful job of exploring it.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tanu Sankalia, University of San Francisco\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“This wonderful book makes the law of property as engaging as a novel, and shows that ordinary people can be more creative in city-building than city planners ever imagine.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mariana Valverde, Professor, Centre for Criminology \u0026amp; Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Through a remarkably vivid and detailed account, Amelia Thorpe explores how PARK(ing) Day unravels contemporary assumptions of legality, ownership, and property rights in the city and unleashes its latent possibilities.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Hou, Professor and Director of Urban Commons Lab, University of Washington, Seattle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOwning the Stree\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cu\u003et\u003c\/u\u003e is lively, smart, and original. Amelia Thorpe uses DIY urbanism to explore the lived and everyday enactments of property and ownership, in original and creative ways, revealing their significance and ambiguities.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eNicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonourable mention in the Australian Legal Research Awards, 2022\u003c\/b\u003eAmelia Thorpe is Associate Professor in Law at the University of New South Wales.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303161450725,"sku":"NP9780262539784","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539784.jpg?v=1767734410","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/owning-the-street-isbn-9780262539784","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}