Tearing down the streets : adventures in urban anarchy / Jeff Ferrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferrell, Jeff.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public spaces--United States.

Public spaces.

Cities and towns--United States.

Cities and towns.

Anarchism.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

United States.

Social conditions.

Anarchism--United States.

Physical Description:

282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Summary:

From New York to San Francisco, Times Square to the Tenderloin, graffiti artists, young people, radical environmentalists, and the homeless clash with police on city streets in an attempt take back urban spaces from the developers and "disneyfiers." Drawing on more than a decade of first-hand research, this lively account goes inside the worlds of street musicians, homeless punks, militant bicycle activists, high-risk "BASE jump" parachutists, skateboarders, outlaw radio operators, and hip hop graffiti artists, to explore the day-to-day skirmishes in the struggle over public life and public space.

Contents:

1 A Jagged Line Down the Middle of the Street 1

2 Wild in the Streets 37

3 Taking Back the Streets 91

4 We Want the Airwaves, Baby 149

5 The Towering Inferno 179

6 Open City 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-273) and index.

ISBN:

0312233353

OCLC:

46812065