Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of ‘public spaces’ has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory.
* Advances a new framework for considering the diverse spatialities of publicness in relation to the city
* Argues that a city’s contribution to the making of publics goes beyond the provision of places for public gathering
* Examines a series of detailed case studies
* Looks at the relationship between urbanism, public spheres, and democracy
Table of Content
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgements.
1 The Problem with Public Space.
2 Publics and the City.
3 Making a Claim: The Regulation of Protest at Parliament House,
Canberra.
4 Cruising: Governing Beat Sex in Melbourne.
5 Making a Name: Writing Graffiti in Sydney.
6 ‘No Fun. No Hope. Don’t Belong.’ : Re-making ‘Public Space’ in
Neo-liberal Perth.
7 Justifying Exclusion: Keeping Men out of the Ladies’
Baths, Sydney.
8 Imagining the Public City: Concluding Reflections.
Bibliography.
Index
About the author
Kurt Iveson is Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia.
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