ABSTRACT
Skaters craft the city through embodied, symbolic, and artistic practices. This chapter explores how a divergent group of skaters use their skilled bodies to attend to and care for skateable space. From a community-wide love for everyday curbs to the informal mapping of iconic sites, skaters develop an arrhythmic, psychogeographic, and nomadic knowledge of the city. This knowledge is conceptualized as a “city craft,” an entanglement of emplaced knowledge, horizontal apprenticeship, and an antirank ethos. A skater's city craft, this chapter concludes, is located in the bruised heels and hurting toes and scabbed elbows, not just in the intellectual head.
