Titre et auteur:

Images of the street : planning, identity, and control in public space / edited by Nicholas R. Fyfe.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Description:

xv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Papers presented at a conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow in 1996.
Papers presented at a conference of the same name at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow in 1996.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : reading the street -- pt. 1. Planning and design: Totalitarianism and the street in fascist Rome / David Atkinson. Changing places : perspectives and the development of a municipal suburban streetscape / Gerry Mooney. The death of the boulevard / John R. Gold. The visualisation of the street : computer modelling and urban design / Richard M. Levy -- pt. 2. Social identities and social practices: Displaying sexuality : gendered identities and the early nineteenth-century street / Jane Rendell. The social space of disability in colonial Melbourne / Brendan Gleeson -- Homelessness and the street : observations from Britain, Canada and the United States / Gerald Daly. Theatres of cruelty, rivers of desire : the erotics of the street / David Bell and Jon Binnie. Of heroes, fools and fisher kings : cinematic representations of street myths and hysterical males / Stuart C. Aitken and Chris Lukinbeal. The street in the making of popular geographical knowledge / David Crouch. Domesticating the street : the contested spaces of the high street and the mall / Peter Jackson. Food and the production of the civilised street / Gill Valentine -- The culture of the Indian street / Tim Edensor -- pt. 3. Control and resistance: Policing contested space : on patrol at Smiley and Huser / Steve Herbert. Urban renaissance and the street : spaces of control and contestation / Loretta Lees. "The eyes upon the street" : closed-circuit television surveillance and the city / Nicholas R. Fyfe and Jon Bannister. Night discourse : producing/consuming meaning on the street / Tim Cresswell.

Résumé:

Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the UK, India, Australia and North America the contributors examine key themes, such as how social life is regulated on the street.

Ressources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415154405 (hb)
9780415154406 (hb)
0415154413 (pbk.)
9780415154413 (pbk.)

Sujet:

City planning Congresses.
Streets Social aspects Congresses.
Urbanisme Congrès.
Rues Aspect social Congrès.
City planning
Streets Social aspects
Straße
Stadtplanung
Kongress
Öffentlicher Raum
Straten.
Stadsplanning.
Sémiotique et urbanisme Congrès.
Perception géographique Congrès.
Strasse.

Classification/genre:

Congress
Congresses.
Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Vedettes secondaires:

Fyfe, Nicholas R., editor.
Fyfe, Nicholas R.
Images of the Street (1996 : University of Strathclyde)

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 215308
Cote: HT166 .I5 1998
Statut: Disponible