This is a robust contribution on an emergent topic.

Times Higher Education

Ali Madanipour has produced with this expertly written book a long overdue theoretical contextualisation of Temporary Urbanism. By taking three different notions of time - instrumental, existential, and experimental - the book delivers a striking conceptual approach and multidimensional understanding of Temporary Urbanism that goes far beyond the numerous studies and texts published over the last decade.

Florian Kossak, Senior Lecturer for Urban History, Theory and Design, University of Sheffield, UK

Britain's top theorist of spatial exclusion now tackles the new urban spaces drawing the public in. Madanipour brilliantly shows how temporary urbanism - fleeting fashion in urban design, land-uses and lifestyles - is a symptom of living in fast, but precarious times, as the city itself becomes an ephemeral event.

Hilary Silver, Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Brown University, USA