Tuff city: Urban change and contested space in central Naples
espace public, renouvellement urbaine, patrimoine urbaine, sécurité, tourisme, immigration, mouvement social, centre historique, citoyenneté, conflit urbain, Naples, Dines Nick
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During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city’s historic center through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration, and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe’s most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.<br />
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<b>Nick Dines</b> lived and worked in Naples for seven years. He currently lives in Rome, where he holds teaching posts in migration studies at Roma Tre University and the sociology of Southern Italy at John Cabot University.</div>
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Nick Dines
Berghahn Books
February 2012
344
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Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City
Koch Ed, Soffer Jonathan, New York, politique de la ville, renouvellement urbaine, gouvernance, gestion locale, politique urbaine, histoire urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle
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Dean Ellen Schall of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and Provost Dianne Rekow of NYU’s Polytechnic Institute invite you a book party for author Jonathan Soffer discussing his new book, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City . Featuring special guest Former Mayor Ed Koch. In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989, and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure. For better or worse, Koch's efforts convinced many New Yorkers to embrace a new political order subsidizing business, particularly finance, insurance and real estate and privatizing public space. Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City recasts Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews and oral histories, and plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied, yet crucial decades: the bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s.</div>
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Jonathan Soffer
14 October 2010
http://wagner.nyu.edu/podcasts/podcastDetail.php?id=168