Beyond Art in ‘Meanwhile Spaces’: Temporary Parks, Urban Governance and the Co-production of Urban Space

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See, stats, and : https : / / www . researchgate. net / publication / 283424895 Beyond 'meanwhile ' : Temporary parks , urban - production of Chapter CITATIONS 2 READS 56 1 : Niamh - Cherry University 29 SEE All - text , letting . Available : Niamh - Cherry Retrieved : 15 FORTHCOMING IN : Murzyn - ­‐Kupisz , M . and Działek , J . (2016) The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe . Netherlands : Springer Abstract Since the 1980s , city governments have increasingly focused on the adaptive reuse of brownfield sites to address urban dereliction through top - down policy guidance and funding initiatives . Since the onset of the economic and banking crisis in 2008 , this approach has become more difficult and one response has been the encouragement of ' meanwhile uses ' through the introduction of temporary activities on brownfield sites , as short - term alternatives (Bishop and Williams 2012) . Much of these activities have been influenced by creative city debates centred on artists , the arts and creativity as important economic tools and agents (Florida 2005 ; Pratt 2008) . However this focus ignores the wider contributions to urbanism of such activities , often in marginal locations . Focusing on the city of Dublin , this chapter examines the pop - up Granby Park . This park was developed on a site formerly targeted for social housing but a victim of the crisis and collapse of the property market . The development of this park by a creative collective , Upstart , challenged how we think about vacancy in the city and highlights the potential and challenges of more informal but creative types of governance in the city .