ABSTRACT

Do-It-Yourself urbanism has often been attributed with the capacity to revitalise urban environments in the absence of formal planning activity. However, there is still limited understanding of the ways in which such practices emerge and establish agency within their respective environments. We bring a relational lens to the debate, presenting a framework for identifying how the socio-spatial conditions within the urban landscape enable and constrain citizen-led spatial appropriation. Using a visually oriented, multi-modal approach, the framework is applied to five sites in Glasgow, Scotland, which we conceptualise as Edgelands in a post-industrial city. Findings reveal that informal citizen practices adaptively come into being through a process of negotiation with their social and material context. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for fostering citizen agency in revitalising the post-industrial city and other urban settings that include wastescapes.

摘要

自己动手的城市化常常被认为具有在缺乏正式规划活动的情况下振兴城市环境的能力。然而，人们对此类实践在各自环境中出现和建立代理的方式的理解仍然有限。我们为辩论带来了一个关系镜头，提出了一个框架，用于确定城市景观中的社会空间条件如何启用和限制公民主导的空间占用。使用面向视觉的多模式方法，该框架应用于苏格兰格拉斯哥的五个地点，我们将其概念化为后工业城市中的 Edgelands。调查结果表明，非正式公民实践通过与他们的社会和物质环境的协商过程适应性地形成。