Download or read book The Help-yourself City written by Gordon C. C. Douglas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Constructive deviance: what is DIY urban design? And what is it not? -- Individualizing civic responsibility: DIY urban design in the help-yourself city -- "I'm an expert on public space": professional and scholarly knowledge at work in DIY urbanism -- The spatial reproduction of inequality: social privilege and disadvantage in creative transgression -- Pop-up planning: from park(ing) day to parklet dining, DIY goes official -- Conclusions