Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism: A Comparative International Overview

Introduction: Shaping the international research agenda of temporary urbanism.- Part I: Reframing and reconceptualising temporary urbanisms.- Temporariness takes command: How temporary urbanism re-assembles the city.- The temporality within temporary urbanism: Listening to rhythms and timespace.- Artistic events as planning practice: Hybridisation, expectations, and pitfalls in three Swiss case studies.- Informality and temporary urbanism as defiance: Tales of the everyday life and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa.- Temporary forms of urbanism in contested urban spaces in Lebanon: The case of Dbayeh camp.- Political protest, temporary urbanism and the deactivation of urban spaces.- Part II: Unwrapping the complexity and diversity of temporary urbanisms.