"Urban policymakers and developers increasingly brand projects as temporary, piloting pop-up parks, art installations, and interim structures across global cities. Initiatives are often framed as experimental interventions that activate vacant sites. In practice, however, they frequently serve as provisional strategies to manage underutilized land until more profitable forms of development materialize. The temporary label functions as urban camouflage, obscuring permanent agendas behind provisional rhetoric."
"From London's Meanwhile London program to New York's Pop-Up Pool installations, cities are embracing what appears to be experimental urbanism. But what if temporariness itself has become the most durable feature of contemporary city-making?"
"Projects with a promise for impermanence systematically reshape urban landscapes."
Urban policymakers and developers increasingly brand interventions as temporary, deploying pop-up parks, art installations, and interim structures to activate vacant or underused sites. These initiatives are commonly presented as experimental tools for placemaking and community engagement, but they routinely operate as provisional mechanisms to manage land until more profitable development emerges. The temporary designation frequently conceals longer-term development agendas, allowing incremental transformation of neighborhoods. Widespread adoption of temporary projects can institutionalize impermanence, making temporariness a persistent feature of city-making and systematically reshaping urban landscapes through successive short-term interventions.
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