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TOWARDS SAFE CITY CENTRES?
REMAKING THE SPACES OF AN OLD-INDUSTRIAL CITY |
| By: |
Gesa Helms, Dr. Mark Boyle, Professor Donald Mitchell |
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Hardback |
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£49.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0754648044 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780754648048 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
28 April, 2008 |
| Pages: |
238 |
| Description: |
Using a case-study of Glasgow, this book explores the connections, practices and policies of economic regeneration, community safety and policy. It provides an overview of the issues of crime control, imagineering, city centre upgrading and examines how practices of regulating city spaces are carried out using community safety policies. |
| Synopsis: |
Examining the rising interest in quality-of-life offences, anti-social behaviour and incivilities in urban public spaces, this study explores the rising importance of policing, crime control and community safety policies in the context of the ongoing urban restructuring in old-industrial cities. This is achieved through an extensive exploration into the making and remaking of urban spaces in the city of Glasgow. In so doing, this book puts forward a strong and innovative theoretical argument. Framed in a critical Marxist perspective that draws on debates within German-speaking critical theory and Marxism, this study argues for the centrality of human social praxis in our understanding of contemporary cities. It engages with questions over the production of social space, a (fragmented) social totality and human agency, which so far have only received limited attention in Anglo-American debates. |
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Includes 10 b&w illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Ashgate Publishing Limited |
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Returnable |