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The Beach Beneath the Streets

The Beach Beneath the Streets

Por Shepard, Benjamin Heim, Smithsimon, Gregory

Publicado por State University of New York Press

English 259 páginas 2011
Tiempo de lectura estimado: 4 h 45 min
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Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S. Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City-queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists-as they transform streets, piers, and vacant lots into everyday sites for autonomy, imagination, identity formation, creativity, problem solving, and even democratic renewal. Through ethnographic accounts of contests over New York City's public spaces that highlight the tension between resistance and repression, Shepard and Smithsimon identify how changes in the control of public spaces-parks, street corners, and plazas-have reliably foreshadowed elites' shifting designs on the city at large. With an innovative taxonomy of public space, the authors frame the ways spaces as diverse as gated enclaves, luxury shopping malls, collapsing piers and street protests can be understood in relation to one another. Synthesizing the fifty-year history of New York's neoliberal transformation and the social movements which have opposed the process, The Beach Beneath the Streets captures the dynamics at work in the ongoing shaping of urban spaces into places of repression, expression, control, and creativity.

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The Beach Beneath the Streets está disponible como PDF en 9 librerías online.
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A un ritmo de lectura medio, The Beach Beneath the Streets se lee en unas 4 h 45 min (259 páginas).

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