Main entry:

Worpole, Ken.

Title & Author:

Towns for people : transforming urban life / Ken Worpole.

Publication:

Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1992.

Description:

vi, 113 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Written for Comedia and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-111) and index.
1. What went wrong? -- Starting points: arrivals and departures -- Traffic in towns -- The retail revolution -- The privatization of leisure -- 2. Time and space in the modern town -- Historical determinants -- Privileging of time over space -- Time -- Space -- Transitional spaces -- The street -- Walking and promenading -- Ribbons and lines rather than circles and squares -- 3. Safety in numbers: towards women-friendly cities -- Law and order paradigm -- Town-centre crime -- Women in Woolwich -- Women and transport -- Lighting -- Children -- Women in cities: the double bind -- 4. Licensed space -- Drinking and disorder -- Which young people? -- Drinking time -- All-day opening -- Pub architecture -- Changing names -- The pub repertoire -- Public transport and locational issues -- Police attitudes -- The economics and demographics of drinking in Britain -- 5. The invisible web -- The voluntary and self-organized tradition -- Participation: the national picture -- Participation: a Southend case study -- Amateur and professional arts -- Libraries, theatres, galleries and museums -- Adult education -- Festivals -- The politics of identity -- 6. The forms of civic renewal -- The changing role of local authorities -- Economic development and tourism -- The planning debate -- Contract culture: the growth of 'post-democratic' agencies -- Civic culture and citizenship.
Also issued online.

Summary:

In this book the author argues that the relationship between people and places, between citizenship and public space, the values of cultural diversity and cosmopolitanism have been lost in preoccupation with land-use planning and "race to the finish" local economic growth.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0335099653
9780335099658
0335099645 (pb)
9780335099641 (pb)

Subject:

Central business districts.
Central business districts Great Britain.
City and town life.
City and town life Great Britain.
Public spaces.
Public spaces Great Britain.
Leisure.
Leisure Great Britain.
Vie urbaine.
Vie urbaine Grande-Bretagne.
Espaces publics.
Espaces publics Grande-Bretagne.
Loisir.
Loisir Grande-Bretagne.
leisure.
Städtebau
Villes Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Urban regions Sociology

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136150
Call No.: ID HT170.W675; ID:97-B943
Status: Available