Title The beach beneath the streets : contesting New York City's public spaces / Benjamin Shepard and Greg Smithsimon

Published Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, ©2011

Click on the following:
EBSCO eBooks
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages) : illustrations illustration Series Excelsior Editions Excelsior editions. Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE REPRESSION -- Introduction: Control, Exclusion, and Play inToday's Future City -- ch. 1 Seeing Space through Exclusion and Control -- ch. 2 Dispersing the Crowd: Bonus Plazas and the Creation of Public Space -- ch. 3 City as Seen from the Plaza: Changing Regimes of Private Control -- pt. TWO RESISTANCE -- Introductory Notes to Part 2 -- ch. 4 Fences and Piers: An Investigation of a Disappearing Queer Public Space -- ch. 5 "If We Can't Dance It's Not Our Revolution": Reclaiming the Streets and Creating Autonomous Space -- ch. 6 Gardens, Streets, and Convivial Places: The Struggle for a Ludic Counterpublic -- ch. 7 From Contested to Popular Space: New York's Bike Lane Liberation Clowns -- ch. 8 Conclusion: This Land is Your Land? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject City planning -- New York (State) -- New York Public spaces -- New York (State) -- New York Plazas -- New York (State) -- New York POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Regional Planning. City planning Plazas Public spaces New York (State) -- New York Form Electronic book Author Smithsimon, Gregory ISBN 9781438436210 1438436211 143843619X 9781438436197 1438436203 9781438436203

  Permalink