Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and Possibilities

Name: Emancipatory City? Paradoxes and Possibilities
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ISBN: 9780761973874

ISBN-10: 0761973877

ISBN-13: 9780761973874

Edition: 2004

Authors: Loretta Lees

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Seeking alternative and progressive visions of the emancipatory city through an exploration of the tensions and possibilities between the freedoms and contraints offered by the city, this book builds on a wealth of current perspectives to present a critical analysis of urban experience.

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 8/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Loretta Lees is professor of human geography and director of research in the Department of Geography at the University of Leicester, UK.



The Emancipatory City



Urban (Re)Visions



Cities Of (In)Difference


Domesticating Monsters



Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City


Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City



Impurity and the Emancipatory City



Young People, Community Safety and Racial Danger


The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities




Emancipatory Practices


Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces of Reclaim the Streets



Inventing New Games



Unitary Urbanism and the Politics of Space


Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City



Urban Escapades



Play in Melbourne's Public Spaces



Utopic Trajectories


The Urban Basis of Emancipation



Spatial Theory and the City in South African Politics


Water, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism



In Search of the Horizon



Utopia in The Truman Show and The Matrix


Ghosts and the City of Hope



Reflections


The 'Emancipatory' City?



The Right to the City