Sidewalks
Subtitle: conflict and negotiation over public space
By: Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht
Contributors: Ehrenfeucht, Renia
Series: Urban and industrial environments; Urban and industrial environments
Publisher: MIT Press; The MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780262123075
Subjects: Public spaces; Sidewalks
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The social, economic, and political life of sidewalks; title: Construction and evolution of sidewalks; title: Promenading and the performance of individual identities; title: Performing collective identities : parades, festivals, and celebrations; title: Everyday politics and the right to the sidewalk; title: Sidewalk as space of dissent; title: Sidewalk as space of economic survival; title: Sidewalk as shelter; title: Sidewalk as urban forest; title: Controlling danger, creating fear; title: Municipalities in control; title: Revisiting public space and the role of sidewalks.