Of the first purpose-built skateparks, from the 1970s boom years of the sport’s second wave, very few remain. Preserving them is about more than sporting history.
- Professor of Architecture and Urban Culture, UCL
The desire to transfer the thrills of surfing on to dry land created the monumental culture of skateboarding, now vividly documented in a new exhibition.
Skateboarding is no longer just for punkish, subcultural rebels – it’s everywhere, for everyone.
The first worldwide skateboarding conference, Pushing Boarders, showed how skateboarding is evolving to include people of all genders, ethnicities and sexualities.
Some are sceptical about the sport’s involvement in the Olympics – but skateboarding has long proven capable of coping with corporate interest.
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