Rhythms of urban space: skateboarding the canyons, plains, and asphalt-banked schoolyards of coastal Los Angeles in the 1970s

Lorne Platt

Mobilities, 2018, vol. 13, issue 6, 825-843

Abstract: This paper examines the ways in which pioneering skateboarders in Southern California reacted to, and exploited a capital-intensive urban landscape to create a sport that today has tremendous economic, political, and cultural implications. The analysis focuses on archival material drawn from Skateboarder Magazine from 1975 to 1980. Ultimately, the skateboarders and those who documented their emerging sport express deep awareness and understanding of urban space as influenced by topography, urban development and emerging notions of mobility. The asphalt-banked schoolyards of Los Angeles provided an unintended playground for skateboarders and served as a starting point for the modern-era of the sport.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2018.1500100

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