Tuff City : : Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples / / Nick Dines.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Dines, Nick,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Remapping Cultural History ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Maps --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; Introduction --; Part 1. Urban Change in an Ordinary City: Naples during the 1990s --; Chapter 1 The Centro Storico History of a Concept and Place --; Chapter 2 Between the General and the Particular A Neapolitan Version of ‘Urban Regeneration’ --; Chapter 3 The Left, the Politics of Citizenship and Shifting Ideas about Naples --; Chapter 4 Public Space and Urban Change --; Part 2. The Making of a Regeneration Symbol: Heritage, Decorum and the Incursions of the Everyday in Piazza Plebiscito --; Chapter 5 Enter the Historic Piazza --; Chapter 6 From Royal Courtyard to Car Park --; Chapter 7 The Regeneration of Piazza Plebiscito --; Chapter 8 Sous les Pavés, la Place! An Ethnography of the New Piazza Plebiscito --; Chapter 9 Exit Piazza Plebiscito Rethinking ‘Civic’ Space --; Part 3 Deprovincializing Urban Regeneration Piazza Garibaldi and Immigration during the Bassolino Era --; Chapter 10 Enter the Station Piazza --; Chapter 11 Antechamber to the Southern Italian Capital (1860–1994) --; Chapter 12 Piazza Garibaldi as an Unregenerate Space (1994–2001) --; Chapter 13 Mapping Immigrant Experiences In and Of Piazza Garibaldi --; Chapter 14 Exit Piazza Garibaldi (Re)connecting Immigration and Urban Renewal --; Part 4. An Alternative Idea of Public Space: The Centro Sociale in Montesanto --; Chapter 15 Enter a Neighbourhood Park --; Chapter 16 The Popular Neighbourhoods in the Twentieth Century --; Chapter 17 Diego Armando Maradona Montesanto (DAMM) Collective Action over Public Space in Montesanto --; Chapter 18 Exit DAMM The Constitutive Role of Collective Action upon Public Space --; Conclusion Rethinking Urban Change in Late Twentieth-century Naples --; Glossary of Italian Terms --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857452801; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857452801
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Nick Dines.

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 centre through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include heritage, 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.