Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body

by Iain Borden

Book Overview

Skateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment - recent estimates total 40 million world-wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf-beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose-built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street-skating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859734936
• ISBN13: 9781859734933
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"