Iain Borden - Skateboarding and the City: A Complete History

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Names: Borden, Iain, author.

Title: Skateboarding and the city : a complete history / Iain Borden.

Description: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018015183 | ISBN 9781472583451 (flexiback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781472583482 (epdf) | ISBN 9781472583475 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: SkateboardingHistory. | SkateboardingSocial aspects. | Skateboarding parks. | StreetsRecreational use.

Classification: LCC GV859.8 .B66 2019 | DDC 796.22dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015183

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Contents

Acknowledgements

This book has its earliest origins in the late 1980s, when I first wrote something academic about skateboarding. Since then, an enormous number of people have provided information, research materials, support and encouragement, and I fear that in seeking to thank all of those who have helped, I will inadvertently miss out far too many. But I will at least try to thank everyone, and here they are.

Dan Adams, Vernon Adams, Alena Agafonova, Dave Allen, Gerhard Andersson, Sabina Andron, Julie Angel, Andrew Armes, Rob Ashby, Gorm Ashurst, Jonny Aspen, Jon Aungier, Bill Bahne, Bob Bahne, Claire Baker, Iain Baker, Rob Ball, Larry Balma, Larry Barth, Becky Beal, Andy Beevers, David Belfrage, Michael Bennett, Johan Berglund, Francis Bernstein, Amanda Birch, Michael Blabac, Ole Bouman, Neil Bowen, Matt Bowles, Christine Boyer, Wilfred Brandt, Chris Bridger, Grant Brittain, Matt Broadley, Andrew Brooke, Angus Leadley Brown, Lucy Bullivant, Damien Burden, James Butcher, Warwick Cairns, Thom Callan-Riley, Claudio Caluori, Dobie Campbell, Ben Campkin, Matthew Carmona, Eray Cayli, Sarah Chaplin, Jonathan Charley, Swati Chattopadhyay, Dave Chesson, Ed Chester, Mike Christie, Marc Churchill, Dean Clarke, James Clarke, Phil Clarkson, Catherine Clayton, Nic Clear, Jono Coote, Matthew Cornford, Rachel Cottam, Paul Coupe, David Cross, Dan Cousins, Marcello Cruz, Allen Cunningham, Barry Curtis, Paul Davies, James Davis, Andy Day, Billy Deans, Jeremy Donaldson, Jacob Down, Kathryn Earle, Gustav Edn, Chris Eidem, Mackenzie Eisenhour, Sren Nordal Enevoldsen, Philip Evans, Kevin Fang, Tim Fitzgerald, John Flood, Mike Fordham, Adrian Forty, Sophie Friedel, David Frisby, Mikkel Frost, Brian Gaberman, Oskar Galewicz, Nathan Gallagher, Bradley Garrett, Jason Geralis, Richard Gilligan, Shaun Gladwell, Julien Glauser, Sean Goff, Matt Gold, David Goldsmith, Eric Gordon, Tim Greatrex, Ben Grieme, Sam Griffin, Erik Gross, Sam Haddad, Matt Harris, Serena Haywood, Jeppe Hein, Pete Hellicar, Hendrik Herzmann, Thomas S. Hines, Russ Holbert, Guy Hollaway, Emmi Holmer, Sander Hlsgens, Richie Hopson, Brad Horn, Ben Horton, Ed Houghton, Ocean Howell, James A. Hudson, Dan Hughes, Dan Hulme, Jon Humphries, Simon Inglis, Alex Irvine, Graham Ive, Mike John, Laurence Johns, Todd Johnson, Alasdair Jones, Peter Jones, Peter Joynt, Eddie Katz, Tiphaine Kazi-Tani, Jude Kelly, Jeff Kendall, Veith Kilberth, Greg King, Granville Kirkup, Kizz Kisby, Kristaps Kleinbergs, Lindsay Knight, Gunita Kulikovsky, Izumi Kuroishi, Garret LaCoss, Lesley Latimer, Graeme Larsen, Jack Layton, Katharina Ledersteger, Sandra Lenzhlzer, Austin Li, Nathan Livingston, Mark Logue, Kara-Jane Lombard, Mike Lorr, Jenny Lovell, Giancarlo Machado, Matt MacQueen, James Madge, Trevor Marchand, Michael Margraf, Doreen Massey, Demetrios Matheou, Mark Maunders, Mike McCart, Sandy McCreery, Matthew McDonald, Glen McDougall, Aaron McGowen, Mike McIntire, Jonathan Mehring, Jeremy Melvin, Pedro Mendes, William Menking, Paul Merrell, Daryl Mersom, Jeremy Millar, Paul Monaghan, Monkeyglove Matt, Alicia Moore, Belinda Moore, Brian Moore, Paula Morais, Alexander Morrison, Oli Mould, Charlie Mrusko, Bob Muckle, Sebastian Mller, Stefan Mller, Morag Myerscough, Simon Napper, Niall Neeson, Ben Nicholson, Ingrid Niehaus, Nikwen, Svein Nordrum, Kenny Omond, Tom Palmer, Tristan Palmer, Christian Parreno, James Parry, Paul Jelly Parsons, Grahame Paterson, Pearl Pelfrey, Dion Penman, Barbara Penner, Stacy Peralta, Jim Phillips, Steve Pile, David Pinder, Steve Pingleton, Alicia Pivaro, Pod, Alberto Polo, Ben Powell, George Powell, Nic Powley, Tony Presland, Paul Price, Richard Pyles, Claude Queyrel, Peg Rawes, Alan Read, Giovanni Reda, Alan Rendell, Beth Rendell, Jane Rendell, Ted Richards, Ed Riggins, Taina Rikala, Robert Rinehart, Leigh Robinson, Charles Room, Jamie Ross, Norma Rosso, Lucas Rubeiro, Katerina Redi, Jeff Ryckebosch, Janne Saario, Nick Sable, Charlie Samuels, Leonie Sandercock, Zac Sanford, Ben Sansbury, Chiara Santini, Bart Saric, Chris Saunders, Helvijs Savickis, Joanna Saxon, Christian Sayer, Bill Schaffer, Philipp Schuster, Louise Scriven, Tim Sedo, Jenna Selby, Steve Sexton, Sangam Sharma, Justin Sharp, Rob Shaw, Sally Shaw, Bob Sheil, Kath Shonfield, Kieran Sills, Simparch, Jack Smith, Nick Smith, Richard Cndida Smith, David Snow, Craig Snyder, James Soane, Ed Soja, South London Shredders, Neil Spiller, Pete Staddon, Simon Staddon, Scott Starr, Brian Stater, Anne Strange Stelzner, Keith Stephens, Quentin Stevens, Bill Stinson, David Stokes, Andy Stone, David Stover, Elaine Stratford, Warren Stuart, Amy Sueyoshi, Paul Sunman, Paul Sweetman, Jon Swords, David Sypniewski, Philip Tabor, Risa Tadauchi, Graham Taft, Tricia Tarkington, Chris Taylor, Saul Taylor, Audrey Teichmann, Kevin Thatcher, Justin Thomas, Pete Thompson, Nigel Thrift, Michelle Tichtin, Jeremy Till, Jane Tobin, David Tong, Trawler, Helge Tscharn, Arthur Tubb, Andy Turner, Daniel Turner, Thomas Turner, Christian Unverzagt, Marc Valle, Marc Vitelli, Dirk Vogel, Oliver Wainwright, Stefan Walz, Vicky Watson, Mauve Weinzier, Belinda Wheaton, Caroline Whitehead, Winstan Whitter, Kate aan de Wiel, Sarah Wigglesworth, Neftalie Williams, Shirley Wong, Helen Woolley, Jon Wood, Crys Worley, Freddy Worrell, Olly Zanetti, Raphal Zarka and Daniel Zvereff.