Shepard / Smithsimon The Beach Beneath the Streets

Contesting New York City's Public Spaces
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3621-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Excelsior Editions

Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shepard, Benjamin Heim

Smithsimon, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Repression

Introduction. Control, Exclusion, and Play in Today’s Future City

1. Seeing Space through Exclusion and Control

2. Dispersing the Crowd. Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space

3. The City as Seen from the Plaza. Changing Regimes of Private Control

Part 2. Resistance

Introductory Notes to Part 2

4. Fences and Piers. An Investigation of a Disappearing Queer Public Space

5. “If We Can’t Dance It’s Not Our Revolution”.Reclaiming the Streets and Creating Autonomous Space

6. Gardens, Streets, and Convivial Places. The Struggle for a Ludic Counterpublic

7. From Contested to Popular Space. New York’s Bike Lane Liberation Clowns

8. Conclusion. This Land is Your Land?

Notes
References

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Shepard is Assistant Professor of Human Services at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. He is the author or editor of several books, including White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Empidemic, and From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization. Gregory Smithsimon is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, CUNY.