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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815418603321

Autore

Roberts Marion

Titolo

Planning the night-time city / / Marion Roberts and Adam Eldridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-136-02470-0

1-283-84509-1

1-136-02462-X

0-203-60906-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EldridgeAdam

Disciplina

307.1/2160941

Soggetti

City planning - Great Britain

Lifestyles - Great Britain

Nightlife - Great Britain

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Planning the Night-time City; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Cities at night; Chapter 3 Visions of the night-time city; Chapter 4 Party cities; Chapter 5 Binge-drinking Britain?; Chapter 6 Regulating consumption: Mainland Britain; Chapter 7 Regulating licensing: The dream of a continental style of drinking; Chapter 8 Planning and managing the night-time city: Rhetoric and pragmatism; Chapter 9 Consumers; Chapter 10 Night-time cities, night-time futures; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The night-time economy represents a particular challenge for planners and town centre managers. In the context of liberalised licensing and a growing culture around the '24-hour city', the desire to foster economic growth and to achieve urban regeneration has been set on a collision course with the need to maintain social order.Roberts and Eldridge draw on extensive case study research, undertaken in the UK and internationally, to explain how changing approaches to evening and night-time activities have been conceptualised in planning practice. The first to synthesise recent debates