Images of the street : planning, identity, and control in public space /
edited by Nicholas R. Fyfe.
- xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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 -- Introduction: reading the street -- Totalitarianism and the street in fascist Rome -- Changing places: perspectives on the development of a municipal suburban streetscape -- The death of the boulevard -- The visualisation of the street: computer modelling and urban design -- Displaying sexuality: gendered identities and the early nineteenth-century street -- The social space of disability in colonial Melbourne -- Homelessness and the street: observations from Britain, Canada and the United States -- Theatres of cruelty, rivers of desire: the erotics of the street -- Of heroes, fools and fisher kings: cinematic representations of street myths and hysterical males -- The street in the making of popular geographical knowledge -- Domesticating the street: the contested spaces of the high street and the mall -- Food and the production of the civilised street -- The culture of the Indian street -- Policing contested space: on patrol at Smiley and Hauser -- Urban renaissance and the street: spaces of control and contestation -- 'The eyes upon the street': closed-circuit television surveillance and the city -- Night discourse: producing/consuming meaning on the street -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
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