Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space

by Nicholas Fyfe (editor)

Images of the Street subjects the street to sustained critical scrutiny, enriching and extending our understanding of the making and meaning of urban space.

304 pages, Paperback

First published July 9, 1998

Reviews

[Tara Brabazon · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fine edited collection, this book focuses on a micro-environment: the street. There is attention to surveillance and the planning of public space through gentrification. But the best chapters were Brendan Gleeson's "The social space of disability in colonial Melbourne" and Gill Valentine's "Food and the production of the civilised street." But each chapter - whether investigating policing or the erotics of the night-time economy - provide a fine historical attention to the street. Great book.