Publics and the city / Kurt Iveson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iveson, Kurt.

Series:

RGS-IBG book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Australia--Case studies.

City planning.

Public spaces--Australia--Case studies.

Public spaces.

Urban policy--Australia--Case studies.

Urban policy.

City and town life--Australia--Case studies.

City and town life.

Australia.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xii, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.

Summary:

Contests over 'public space' have come to assume increasing centrality in deliberations over urban policy in post-industrial nations such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. In this innovative book, Kurt Iveson addresses the relationship between publicness and the city, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for urban politics and urban theory.Drawing on original, empirical research, the author presents a series of detailed case studies that explore the struggle for space in different forms of publicness, from political protesters seeking to use the grounds around Parliament House in Canberra, to young people hanging out on the streets of inner city Perth, to writing graffiti in Sydney. Publics and the City is a timely and critical examination of the relationship between urbanism, publicness and democracy.

Contents:

The problem with public space

Publics and the city

Making a claim : the regulation of protest at Parliament House, Canberra

Cruising : governing beat sex in Melbourne

Making a name : writing graffiti in Sydney

'No fun, no hope, don't belong' : re-making 'public space' in neo-liberal Perth

Justifying exclusion : keeping men out of the ladies' baths, Sydney

Imagining the public city : concluding reflections.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-246) and index.

ISBN:

1405127325

9781405127325

1405127309

9781405127301

OCLC:

70877821