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9781405127325

Publics And the City

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    9781405127325

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    1405127325

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-05-14
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

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