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Skateboarding and the city
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- Book Synopsis
- Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Creative, physical, graphic, urban and controversial, it is full of contradictions - a billion-dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant, counter-cultural heart. Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of the sport, exploring the story of skate culture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Written by a life-long skater who also happens to be an architectural historian, and packed through with full-colour images - of skaters, boards, moves, graphics, and film-stills - this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of skateboarding and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, experience the city and its architecture in a unique way.
- About The Author
- Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett,University College London
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781472583451
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts, (21 February 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 384
- Weight
- 1292 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 260 x 218 x 24 mm
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