Rights of passage : sidewalks and the regulation of public flow / Nicholas Blomley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blomley, Nicholas K., author.

Series:

Social justice (Abingdon, England)

Social Justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pedestrians--Legal status, laws, etc--Social aspects.

Pedestrians.

Sidewalks--Law and legislation--Social aspects.

Sidewalks.

Walking.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (140 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting public citizenship and democracy. Rather, the function of the sidewalk is understood to be the promotion and facilitation of pedestrian flow and circulation, predicated on the appropriate arrangement of people and objects. This remarkably pervasive yet overlooked logic shapes the

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Pedestrianism; Chapter 2 Civic humanism and the sidewalk; Chapter 3 Thinking like an engineer; Chapter 4 Producing and policing the sidewalk; Chapter 5 The history of pedestrianism; Chapter 6 Judicial pedestrianism; Chapter 7 Obstructions of justice?; Chapter 8 Taking a constitutional: Circulation, begging and the mobile self; Chapter 9 Hidden in plain view; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-89134-X

1-136-89135-8

1-282-92985-2

9786612929854

0-203-84040-2

9780203840405

OCLC:

741356622