The Taming of New York's Washington Square : A Wild Civility / Erich Goode.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goode, Erich, author.

Series:

NYU scholarship online.

NYU scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deviant behavior--New York (State)--New York.

Deviant behavior.

Social control--New York (State)--New York City.

Social control.

City and town life--New York (State)--New York.

City and town life.

New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--21st century.

New York (N.Y.).

New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--21st century.

Washington Square (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"With rich and detailed observations as well as in-depth interviews, Goode demonstrates how onlookers, bystanders, and witnesses--both denizens and your average casual park visitor--provide an effective system of social control, keeping more serious wrongdoing in check. Goode also profiles the parks visitors, showing us that the park is a major draw to residents and tourists alike. Visitors come from all over; only a quarter of the park's visitors live in the neighborhood (the Village and SoHo), one out of ten are tourists, and one out of six are from upper Manhattan or the Bronx. Goode looks at the patterns of who visits the park, when they come, and, once in the park, where they go. Regardless of where they live, Goode argues, all of the Park's visitors help keep the park safe and lively."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The people in the square

Public space

Defining deviance

Social control

Race

Sex and gender in public

The heterotopia.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-275) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4798-7271-7

OCLC:

1065537482