Main entry:

Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia, 1958-

Title & Author:

Sidewalks : conflict and negotiation over public space / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.

Description:

x, 328 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-314) and index.
Introduction: The social, economic, and political life of sidewalks -- Construction and evolution of sidewalks -- Promenading and the performance of individual identities -- Performing collective identities : parades, festivals, and celebrations -- Everyday politics and the right to the sidewalk -- Sidewalk as space of dissent -- Sidewalk as space of economic survival -- Sidewalk as shelter -- Sidewalk as urban forest -- Controlling danger, creating fear -- Municipalities in control -- Revisiting public space and the role of sidewalks.

Summary:

The authors examine the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses - from the right to sit to the right to parade - have been negotiated.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780262123075 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
026212307X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262517416
0262517418

Subject:

Public spaces.
Sidewalks.
Espaces publics.
Trottoirs.
sidewalks.
71.14 urban society.
Gehweg
Public space.
Pedestrians.
Gångbanor.
Trottoarer.
Stadssociologi.
USA
United States.

Added entries:

Ehrenfeucht, Renia.
Urban and industrial environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 261560
Call No.: BIB 192582
Status: Available