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Titolo |
The emancipatory city? [[electronic resource] ] : paradoxes and possibilities / / edited by Loretta Lees |
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ISBN |
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1-4462-2136-9 |
1-280-37083-1 |
9786610370832 |
1-4129-3271-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 243 p.) : ill |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Urbanization |
City and town life |
Liberty |
Cultural pluralism |
Cosmopolitanism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; About the contributors; List of figures; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - 'The Emancipatory City': Urban (Re)Visions; Chapter 2 - Domesticating Monsters: cartographies of difference and the emancipatory city; Chapter 3 - Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? deviance, difference and crime control in the late modern city; Chapter 4 - Impurity and the Emancipatory City: young people, community safety and racial danger; Chapter 5 - The Emancipatory Community? place, politics and collective action in cities |
Chapter 6 - Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces if Reclaim the StreetsChapter 7 - Inventing New Games: unitary urbanism and the politics of space; Chapter 8 - Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City; Chapter 9 - Urban Escapades: play in Melbourne's public spaces; Chapter 10 - The Urban Basis of Emancipation: spatial theory and the city in South African politics; Chapter 11 - Water, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism; Chapter 12 - In Search of the Horizon: utopia in ""The Truman Show"" and ""The Matrix""; Chapter 13 |
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- Ghosts and the City of Hope; Reflections |
Chapter 14 - The 'Emancipatory' City?Chapter 15 - The Right to the City; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Seeking alternative and progressive visions of the emancipatory city through an exploration of the tensions and possibilities between the freedoms and constraints offered by the city, this book builds on a wealth of current perspectives to present a critical analysis of urban experience. |
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