Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body Chinese History (Books) says Christopher Caldwell

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ISBN13: 9780545823401 ISBN10: 0545823404 Material Type: paperback

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Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body Chinese History (Books) says Christopher CaldwellSkateboarders are an increasingly common feature of the urban environment recent estimates total 40 million world wide. We are all aware of their often extraordinary talent and manoeuvres on the city streets. This book is the first detailed study of the urban phenomenon of skateboarding. It looks at skateboarding history from the surf beaches of California in the 1950s, through the purpose built skateparks of the 1970s, to the street skating of the