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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Skateboarding & the City
Author: BORDEN IAIN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 21/02/2019
Imprint: BLOOMSBURY
Price: $50.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781472583451
Pages: 384