عنوان

City publics :the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters /Sophie Watson.

0415312272 (alk. paper)

0415312280 (softcover : alk. paper)

لاتين

انگليسي

City publics :the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters /Sophie Watson.

Abingdon, Oxon, England :

Routledge,

2006.

193 p.

مرجع به حساب نمي آيد

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- City publics: the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- Constructing public space -- Public potentialities -- The limits to difference -- Psychonalytic accounts -- The book's outline -- Symbolic spaces of difference: contesting the eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey -- Constitution matters: the case of the Tenafly, New Jersey eruv -- Planning and local government - English sites of conservatism and the Barnet eruv -- Discourses of dissent -- Concluding reflections -- Postscript -- Nostalgia at work: living with difference in a London street market -- Princess Street market -- Nostalgia -- Crime and safety -- Cosmopolitanism and socio-economic decline -- Being anglophone -- Being Christian -- Welfare chauvinism -- Conclusion -- Risky space and money talks: the Hampstead Ponds meet state regulation -- The Hampstead Ponds -- A question of money? -- Conclusion -- Disrobing in public: embodied differences in bathing sites -- Steaming bodies - turkish baths and the performance of difference -- Hampstead Ponds -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Invisible subjects: encounter, desire and association amongst older people -- Invisibility -- The university of the third age (u3a) -- Allotments -- Unsexy bodies -- A state of fear -- Conclusion -- Children?s publics -- Children and public space: a case study -- Conclusion -- The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters : some concluding reflections -- Public/private -- Str

Sociology, Urban

Public spaces

Cities and towns

مولف

Watson, Sophie.