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.
