Skateboarding and the City

Skateboarding and the City presents the only complete history of skateboarding, exploring the story of skate subculture from the surf-beaches of '60s California to the latest developments in street-skating today. Packed through with full-colour images and written by a life-long skater and architectural historian - this passionate, readable and rigorously-researched book explores the history of the sport and reveals a vivid understanding of how skateboarders, through their actions, think about and experience the city in a unique way.