Skateboarding and the City - A Complete History
Author(s): Iain Borden
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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- : 1.2882
- : February 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Iain Borden
- : Paperback
- : 1902
- : English
- : 384