Book Review: Amelia Thorpe, Owning the street: The everyday life of property.

Owning the street: The everyday life of property Amelia Thorpe Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020 I Owning the street: The everyday life of property i by Amelia Thorpe is a thorough, thoughtful, and nuanced study of PARK(ing) Day - its histories, various manifestations, and its entanglements with other tactical urbanist practices, strategies, and philosophies. Thorpe traces the premise of PARK(ing) Day - that is, paying a parking meter to do something with a parking space I other i than park a car - as far back as the 1930s (see chapter 1). But Thorpe is concerned with a more interesting question than the technicalities of the law - rather she explores the political work being done in claiming that a legitimate property right exists, confidently (often collectively) exerting that property right, and how that may shape urban space. [Extracted from the article]

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