Sidewalks: Conflict and Negotiation Over Public Space

by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht

Book Overview

Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses--from the right to sit to the right to parade--have been negotiated.

Urban sidewalks, critical but undervalued public spaces, have been sites for political demonstrations and urban greening, promenades for the wealthy and the well-dressed, and shelterless shelters for the homeless. On sidewalks, decade after decade, urbanites have socialized, paraded,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262517418
• ISBN13: 9780262517416
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher