Kurt Iveson

Broschiertes Buch

Publics and the City

Beschreibung

Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory. * Advances a new framework for considering the diverse spatialities of publicness in relation to the city * Argues that a city's contribution to the making of publics goes beyond the provision of places for public gathering * Examines a series of detailed case studies * Looks at the relationship between urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

Autor

Kurt Iveson is Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781405127301
• ISBN-10: 1405127309
• Artikelnr.: 21552955

Rezensionen

"Rich and varied case studies make the material accessible ... .Anoriginal, engaging, and interesting contribution to debates aboutthe uses, meanings, and urban dimensions of public address andpublic space." (American Journal of Sociobiology, February2010)

"An important book ... .Compelling." (Progress in HumanGeography, February 2010)

"Iveson clearly demonstrates why issues of publicnessshould be of concern to all geographers, and he suggests that thereis too much at stake to accept existing normative assumptions aboutthe decline of the public sphere." (CulturalGeographies, October 2008)"A fascinating and well argued book which convincingly explores therelationship between the public sphere - or publicness- and the city. It is an engaging and fruitful conversationbetween urban studies and critical social theories of the publicsphere, which draws on a series of illuminating casestudies."
Allan Cochrane, Open University

"Urban public spaces are arenas of political action but also ofboth public and private efforts to manage popular behaviour. Thisseries of engaging Australian case studies and insightful analyseshelps clarify both sets of issues. It should be of interest toeveryone who cares about urban life, popular politics, and theintersection of place and identity."
Craig Calhoun, NYU