The emancipatory city? : paradoxes and possibilities /: paradoxes and possibilities. (2004)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Loretta Lees.
• Other Names: Lees, Loretta
• Contents: INTRODUCTION --- 1. The Emancipatory City: Urban (Re)Visions/ Loretta Lees --- PART 1. CITIES OF (IN)DIFFERENCE. 2. Domesticating Monsters: Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City/ Susan Ruddick -- 3. Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City/ Nicholas Fyfe -- 4. Impurity and the Emancipatory City: Young People, Community Safety and Racial Danger/ Les Back and Michael Keith -- 5. The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities/ James DeFilippis and Peter North --- PART 2. EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES. 6. Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces of Reclaim the Streets/ Gavin Brown -- 7. Inventing New Games: Unitary Urbanism and the Politics of Space/ David Pinder -- 8. Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City/ Gary Bridge -- 9. Urban Escapades: Play in Melbourne's Public Spaces/ Quentin Stevens --- PART 3. UTOPIC TRAJECTORIES. 10. The Urban Basis of Emancipation: Spatial Theory and the City in South African Politics/ Jennifer Robinson -- 11. Water, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism/ Matthew Gandy -- 12. In Search of the Horizon: Utopia in The Truman Show and The Matrix/ Geraldine Pratt and Rose Marie San Juan -- 13. Ghosts and the City of Hope/ Steve Pile --- REFLECTIONS. 14. The 'Emancipatory' City?/ Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift -- 15. The Right to the City/ David Harvey.
• Publisher Details: London Thousand Oaks, Calif : Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 2004
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 243 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 307.76; Urbanization; City and town life; Liberty; Cultural pluralism; Cosmopolitanism; Urbanisation; Vie urbaine; Liberté; Pluralisme; Cosmopolitisme; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban; City and town life; Cosmopolitanism; Cultural pluralism; Liberty; Urbanization; Sociale verandering; Emancipatie; Stadscultuur; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781412932714; 1412932718; 9781446221365; 1446221369; 1280370831; 9781280370830
• Related ISBNs: 0761973877; 0761973869; 9780761973874; 9780761973867
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.