Sidewalks : Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space.
Title:
Sidewalks : Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space.
Author:
Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia.
ISBN:
9780262255462
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (344 pages)
Series:
Urban and Industrial Environments
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I History and Evolution -- 1 Introduction: The Social, Economic, and Political Life of Sidewalks -- 2 Construction and Evolution of Sidewalks -- II Display, Opportunity, and Celebration -- 3 Promenading and the Performance of Individual Identities -- 4 Performing Collective Identities: Parades, Festivals, and Celebrations -- III Disruption and Confrontation -- 5 Everyday Politics and the Right to the Sidewalk -- 6 Sidewalk as Space of Dissent -- IV Competing Uses and Meanings -- 7 Sidewalk as Space of Economic Survival -- 8 Sidewalk as Shelter -- 9 Sidewalk as Urban Forest -- V Regulation and Control -- 10 Controlling Danger, Creating Fear -- 11 Municipalities in Control -- 12 Revisiting Public Space and the Role of Sidewalks -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses -- from the right to sit to the right to parade -- have been negotiated.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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