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Introduction

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...The scene is set, the playground open: unknown terrain, unknown features, unknown futures. Maybe.Michele K Donnelly, ‘Alternative and Mainstream: Revisiting the Sociological Analysis of Skateboarding’, Michael Atkinson and Kevin Young ,...

The World’s Most Popular Architecture: The Technology and Interior of the Automobile

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Archi.Pop : Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...No other architecture is as elaborately conceived, intensively designed and commonly experienced as that of the automobile and its interior. Once we fully appreciate the automobile’s sheer density, proliferation and sophistication...

Skateboarding – A Magnificent Life?

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...Skateboarding is inherently plural and contradictory, being at once authentic and corporate, playful and serious, rebellious and conformist, street-based and skatepark-bound. If offering no singular definition seems like a strange kind...

Skatepark Renaissance

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... into a complex amalgam of raw found space, accidental functionality and deliberately skate-focused interventions.Iain Borden, ‘Southbank Skateboarding, London and Urban Culture: the Undercroft, Hungerford Bridge and House of Vans’, Lombard,...

Media Worlds

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... Wheels (Richard Gayer, 1978) recorded skateboarding at London’s Skate City, Meanwhile Gardens and Southbank, plus in various streets and parks (Figure 5.10).Iain Borden, ‘Skateboard City: London in Skateboarding Films’, Pam Hirsch and Chris...

Do It for Others

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... like Oli Mould and myself supported the campaign with texts and videos.Iain Borden, ‘The Architecture’, Long Live Southbank, pp. 66–97; The Bigger Picture (Long Live Southbank, 2013), www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFaKN98Xg3E; ‘Iain Borden...

Skateboards

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...A skateboard is a basic device, with just three main elements – one deck, two trucks and four wheels – and has had little of the complex technological advances seen in other board sports like windsurfing and snowboarding. The deck (riding...

Skatopia

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... James Parry in the marbelite pool of Rom skatepark (1979). © Iain Borden. Not to be outdone, in November 1978 Dogtown finally acquired its own skatepark at Marina del Rey, south of Venice Beach. Designed and managed by Ray Allen...

Living by the Board

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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...Skateboarding is not a hobby and it’s not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you.‘NDIIIPP Special Event: Ian MacKaye’, Library of Congress (7 May 2013), www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvqtY_7Q7hI. ‘NDIIIPP...

Super-Architectural Space

Iain Borden

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Skateboarding and the City : A Complete History

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019

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... and mental processes become as one. Reformulation of the body. Iain Borden, frontside air at Better Extreme, London (2016). © Andy Turner. Much of this stems from skateboarding’s intrinsic dynamism; ‘I’ve gotta be moving fast’, professed...