Gesa Helms

Towards Safe City Centres?

Remaking the Spaces of an Old-Industrial City

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an extensive exploration into the making and remaking of urban spaces in the city of Glasgow, this study explores the rising importance of policing, crime control and community safety policies in the context of the ongoing urban restructuring in old-industrial cities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780754648048
• ISBN-10: 0754648044
• Artikelnr.: 45634862

Autorenporträt

Dr Gesa Helms is a Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Empirical Vignettes: Introduction: towards safe city centres?
Marxian social praxis and the production of space
Critical Marxism, the production of space and safe city centres: towards a research agenda
Remaking the (old-industrial) city: urban restructuring, imagineering and crime control
Regulating the spaces of an old-industrial city
Representing the city centre: Glasgow's city centre representatives
Discussion: towards safe city centres
Bibliography
Index.