Ideas for a slope

Skateboarding Architects

http://www.anthonybracali.com/

This architects website has some interesting articles that realte to my dissertation (To what extent should landscape architects consider skateboarding when designing in the urban realm).

Articles of particular interest to me are entitled "Thanks, Le Corbusier (... from the skateboarders)"

and one entitled "Landscapes for Skateboarding".

Furthermore Ocean Howell a former professional skateboarder who I was a fan of in my youth, is now an architect and he has also compiled some interesting articles concerning skateboarding and architecture.

“The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space” and another
entitled,

"Skatepark as Neoliberal Playground: Urban Governance, Recreation Space, and the Cultivation of Personal Responsibility".

Both of these authors have provided some interesting points particularly concerning issues of public space and the reinterpretation of it by skateboarders.

Also there is Iain Borden a professor of architecture at UCL who wrote the book "Skateboarding, Space and the City" which has been a valuable resource too.