Violent Night: Urban Leisure and Contemporary Culture

by Steve Hall and Simon Winlow

Book Overview

Why do our night-time cities seem to mix pleasure with violence? This is the time and place when cities are taken over by young men in search of alcohol, drugs, another club or a fight. Current public policy has patently failed to keep on top of the new trends in both consumption and destruction which make urban centres simultaneously seductive and dangerous. Violent Night uses powerful insider accounts to uncover the underlying causes and meanings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B008036A30
• ISBN13: 9781845201647
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"