Ebook: Publics and the City

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

Content:
Chapter 1 The Problem with Public Space (pages 1–19):
Chapter 2 Publics and the City (pages 20–49):
Chapter 3 Making a Claim: The Regulation of Protest at Parliament House, Canberra (pages 50–82):
Chapter 4 Cruising: Governing Beat Sex in Melbourne (pages 83–111):
Chapter 5 Making a Name: Writing Graffiti in Sydney (pages 112–147):
Chapter 6 ‘No Fun. No Hope. Don't Belong.’: Remaking ‘Public Space’ in Neo?Liberal Perth (pages 148–186):
Chapter 7 Justifying Exclusion: Keeping Men out of the Ladies' Baths, Sydney (pages 187–204):
Chapter 8 Imagining the Public City: Concluding Reflections (pages 205–224):