Kurt Iveson

Publics and the City

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Produktbeschreibung

Contests over 'public space' have come to assume increasing centrality in deliberations over urban policy in post-industrial nations such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. In this innovative book, Kurt Iveson addresses the relationship between publicness and the city, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for urban politics and urban theory. Drawing on original, empirical research, the author presents a series of detailed case studies that explore the struggle for space in different forms of publicness, from political protesters seeking to use the grounds around Parliament House in Canberra, to young people hanging out on the streets of inner city Perth, to writing graffiti in Sydney. Publics and the City is a timely and critical examination of the relationship between urbanism, publicness and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781405127325
• ISBN-10: 1405127325
• Artikelnr.: 21753550

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
1 The Problem with Public Space.
2 Publics and the City.
3 Making a Claim: The Regulation of Protest at Parliament House, Canberra.
4 Cruising: Governing Beat Sex in Melbourne.
5 Making a Name: Writing Graffiti in Sydney.
6 "No Fun. No Hope. Don't Belong." : Re-making "Public Space" in
Neo-liberal Perth.
7 Justifying Exclusion: Keeping Men out of the Ladies' Baths, Sydney.
8 Imagining the Public City: Concluding Reflections.
Bibliography.
Index

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