Sidewalks: conflict and negotiation over public space/ Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009Description: x, 328 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN: 9780262123075 (hardcover : alk. paper); 026212307X (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Public spaces | SidewalksDDC classification: 338.411Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 338.411 LOU/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P24581 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-314) and index.
Introduction: The social, economic, and political life of sidewalks -- Construction and evolution of sidewalks -- Promenading and the performance of individual identities -- Performing collective identities : parades, festivals, and celebrations -- Everyday politics and the right to the sidewalk -- Sidewalk as space of dissent -- Sidewalk as space of economic survival -- Sidewalk as shelter -- Sidewalk as urban forest -- Controlling danger, creating fear -- Municipalities in control -- Revisiting public space and the role of sidewalks.
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