ABSTRACT
What is needed to move from a catastrophic cityscape to a skate-friendly ecology? The history of criminalizing skaters is changing as skate-friendly cities are becoming recognized. Can skaters – increasingly celebrated as harbingers of social change – foment the possibility of a type of skateboarding that is less reliant on harmful architectural design? In particular, what kind of bodily skills and performative practices do skaters need to prepare for a different world? This epilogue chronicles what a sensory futurity for skateboarding may look like. The conclusion is that skaters are philosophers of the streets: using their senses to attend to the major issues of cities today.
