Images of the street : planning, identity, and control in public space / edited by Nicholas R. Fyfe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fyfe, Nicholas R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Congresses.

City planning.

Streets--Social aspects--Congresses.

Streets.

Streets--Social aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

Streets are the terrain of social encounters and political protest, sites of domination and resistance, places of pleasure and anxiety. The essays in "Images of the Street" explore how we imagine, create, experience, interact with and naturally transform the street. Using case studies of cities including New York, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Toronto and Vancouver, the contributors subject the street to sustained critical scrutiny. The essays examine the interplay between politics and planning, how social identities are shaped by the use of the street, and how these identities are represented in fiction and in films such as "Independence Day, Twelve Monkeys," and "The Fisherking," and how social life is increasingly regulated both directly by agencies such as the police, and indirectly through architecture and urban design. This book enriches and extends our understanding of the making and meaning of a key urban space.

Notes:

Papers presented at a conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow in 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415154405

0415154413

OCLC:

38150161