The emancipatory city? : paradoxes and possibilities / / edited by Loretta Lees

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 2004; London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : , : Sage Publications, , 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 243 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Urbanization; City and town life; Liberty; Cultural pluralism; Cosmopolitanism
• Altri autori: LeesLoretta
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 - Ghosts and the City of Hope; Reflections ; Chapter 14 - The 'Emancipatory' City?Chapter 15 - The Right to the City; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The emancipatory city
• ISBN: 1-4462-2136-9; 1-280-37083-1; 9786610370832; 1-4129-3271-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826680003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II