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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808078703321

Autore

Dines Nicholas T

Titolo

Tuff city : urban change and contested space in central Naples / / Nick Dines

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49664-9

9786613591876

0-85745-280-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Remapping cultural history ; ; 13

Disciplina

307.760945/731

307.760945731

Soggetti

Public spaces - Italy - Naples

Urbanization - Italy - Naples

City planning - Italy - Naples

Land use, Urban - Italy - Naples

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Urban change in an ordinary city : Naples during the 1990s -- pt. 2. The making of a regeneration symbol : heritage, decorum and the incursions of the everyday in Plazza Plebiscito -- pt. 3. Deprovincializing urban regeneration : Piazza Garibaldi and immigration during the Bassolino era -- pt. 4. An alternative idea of public space : the Centro Sociale in Montesanto.

Sommario/riassunto

During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city's cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city's historic centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Eu