Pop up city (series 1)

The pop-up city as a form of temporary urbanism is not just a collection of cool concepts; they represent a paradigm shift in the production of the built environment and how cities are conceived, designed, and built by citizen led and users.

Pop up city initiatives can offer an accessible, updateable platform for testing, communication and play between the city and its people, and can be citizen-led based on what the community is concerned about or wants to share amongst neighbours. These small scale endeavours can offer a typology of flexible and soft design elements that can integrate with the existing fixed form of urban fabric. The location of pop-up space is currently very limited by the fixed environment around it; if the pop-up can be accepted as a valuable new urban typology the changes to the fixed environment can also be considered to allow more space so these limitations can be reduced