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Images of the street : planning, identity, and control in public space / edited by Nicholas R. Fyfe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 1998Description: xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415154413
  • 9780415154413
  • 0415154405
  • 9780415154406
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.3
LOC classification:
  • HT166. I527 1998
Contents:
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: reading the street -- 2. Totalitarianism and the street in fascist Rome -- 3. Changing places: perspectives on the development of a municipal suburban streetscape -- 4. The death of the boulevard -- 5. The visualisation of the street: computer modelling and urban design -- 6. Displaying sexuality: gendered identities and the early nineteenth-century street -- 7. The social space of disability in colonial Melbourne -- 8. Homelessness and the street: observations from Britain, Canada and the United States -- 9. Theatres of cruelty, rivers of desire: the erotics of the street -- 10. Of heroes, fools and fisher kings: cinematic representations of street myths and hysterical males -- 11. The street in the making of popular geographical knowledge -- 12. Domesticating the street: the contested spaces of the high street and the mall -- 13. Food and the production of the civilised street -- 14. The culture of the Indian street -- 15. Policing contested space: on patrol at Smiley and Hauser -- 16. Urban renaissance and the street: spaces of control and contestation -- 17. 'The eyes upon the street': closed-circuit television surveillance and the city -- 18. Night discourse: producing/consuming meaning on the street -- Index.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 307.3 IMA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A161541B

Papers presented at a conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow in 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: reading the street -- 2. Totalitarianism and the street in fascist Rome -- 3. Changing places: perspectives on the development of a municipal suburban streetscape -- 4. The death of the boulevard -- 5. The visualisation of the street: computer modelling and urban design -- 6. Displaying sexuality: gendered identities and the early nineteenth-century street -- 7. The social space of disability in colonial Melbourne -- 8. Homelessness and the street: observations from Britain, Canada and the United States -- 9. Theatres of cruelty, rivers of desire: the erotics of the street -- 10. Of heroes, fools and fisher kings: cinematic representations of street myths and hysterical males -- 11. The street in the making of popular geographical knowledge -- 12. Domesticating the street: the contested spaces of the high street and the mall -- 13. Food and the production of the civilised street -- 14. The culture of the Indian street -- 15. Policing contested space: on patrol at Smiley and Hauser -- 16. Urban renaissance and the street: spaces of control and contestation -- 17. 'The eyes upon the street': closed-circuit television surveillance and the city -- 18. Night discourse: producing/consuming meaning on the street -- Index.

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