Skateboarding and the City

<p>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. <p/><i>Skateboarding and the City</i> 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.</p>