City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City

by Jayne,Mark; Bell,David

• ISBN13: 9780754634140
• ISBN10: 0754634140
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-04-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of this high profile contemporary phenomenon. As such, it is set to become the standard reference work - a comprehensive and integrated primer with coverage of all the topics necessary for a full understanding of the role of urban villages and quarters in the contemporary city.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables	viii
List of Contributors	ix
1 Conceptualizing the City of Quarters	1	(14)
David Bell and Mark Jayne
Part 1: Urban Regeneration
2 Pyrmont-Ultimo: the Newest Chic Quarter of Sydney	15	(22)
Gordon Waitt
3 Drawn and Quartered: El Raval and the Haussmannization of Barcelona	37	(19)
Malcolm Miles
4 Fables of the Reconstruction (of the Fables...): Lower Manhattan after 9/11	56	(15)
James DeFilippis
Part 2: Production and Consumption
5 Cultural Industry Quarters: From Pre-Industrial to Post-Industrial Production	71	(22)
Graeme Evans
6 Supporting the Cultural Quarter? The Role of the Creative Intermediary	93	(16)
Tom Fleming
7 Popular Music, Urban Regeneration and Cultural Quarters: The Case of the Rope Walks, Liverpool	109	(22)
Abigail Gilmore
8 Quarterizing the City: The Spatial Politics of the Joyce Industry in Dublin	131	(18)
Stephanie Rains
Part 3: Identities, Lifestyles and Forms of Sociability
9 Nottingham's de facto Cultural Quarter: The Lace Market, Independents and a Convivial Ecology	149	(14)
Jim Shorthose
10 Quartering Sexualities: Gay Villages and Sexual Citizenship	163	(10)
Jon Binnie
11 Finding Chinatown: Ethnocentrism and Urban Planning	173	(18)
Wun Chan
Part 4: Rethinking Neighbourhoods/Rethinking Quarters
12 Rethinking Neighbourhoods: From Urban Villages to Cultural Hubs	191	(15)
Chris Murray
13 Red Lights and Safety Zones	206	(18)
Maggie O'Neill, Rosie Campbell, Anne James, Mark Webster, Kate Green, Jay Patel, Nasreen Akhtar and Waheed Saleem
14 Re-Discovering Coketown	224	(13)
Phil Denning
15 The Culture of Neighbourhoods: A European Perspective	237	(12)
Franco Bianchini and Lia Ghilardi
16 Afterword: Thinking in Quarters	249	(8)
David Bell and Mark Jayne
Bibliography	257	(23)
Index	280