The Beach Beneath the Streets
Contesting New York City's Public Spaces
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2011
256 pages
978-1-4384-3621-0 (ISBN)
Description
Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 32
Total Illustrations: 32
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-3621-0 (9781438436210)
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Benjamin Heim Shepard | Gregory Smithsimon
The Beach Beneath the Streets
Contesting New York City's Public Spaces
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06/2011
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Benjamin Heim Shepard | Gregory Smithsimon
The Beach Beneath the Streets
Contesting New York City's Public Spaces
Book
06/2011
Excelsior Editions
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Persons
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.
Content
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
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
