Lauren Andres is director of research and professor of planning and urban transformations at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She is coeditor of Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges (2024), among other books.

The city is and will always be an unfinished project. In this book, Lauren Andres makes a major contribution to the theory and application of temporary urbanism by setting it within the context of societal change and the power structures that shape our lives today.

• Preface1. What Is the Adaptable and Temporary City?2. The Flexible and Inflexible City3. Adaptability, Activation, and Weak Planning4. Everyday Adaptability, Coping, and Resilience5. Adaptability and the “Cool” Artificial City6. The Pandemic and Postpandemic Adaptable City7. Knowledge, Skills, and the Delivery of the Adaptable City8.The Future of Adaptable Cities and Temporary UrbanismsBibliographyNotesIndex

Lauren Andres is director of research and professor of planning and urban transformations at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. She is coeditor of Pandemic Recovery? Reframing and Rescaling Societal Challenges (2024), among other books.

The city is and will always be an unfinished project. In this book, Lauren Andres makes a major contribution to the theory and application of temporary urbanism by setting it within the context of societal change and the power structures that shape our lives today.

• Preface1. What Is the Adaptable and Temporary City?2. The Flexible and Inflexible City3. Adaptability, Activation, and Weak Planning4. Everyday Adaptability, Coping, and Resilience5. Adaptability and the “Cool” Artificial City6. The Pandemic and Postpandemic Adaptable City7. Knowledge, Skills, and the Delivery of the Adaptable City8.The Future of Adaptable Cities and Temporary UrbanismsBibliographyNotesIndex