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OverviewDuring 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nick DinesPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Volume: 13 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780857452795ISBN 10: 0857452797 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 01 February 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Abbreviations Preface Introduction PART I: 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 II: 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 Paves, la Place! An Ethnography of the New Piazza Plebiscito Chapter 9. Exit Piazza Plebiscito: Rethinking 'Civic' Space PART III: DEPROVINCIALISING 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 IV: 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 IndexReviewsThis is an important book. In a whole series of ways this study of contemporary Naples will set a bench-mark for urban studies and the way urban history is carried out. It is a book about Naples and thus about the particularities and peculiarities of that specific city. However, this is also a book which goes way beyond Naples itself. It has a lot to tell us about the way the city can and should be studied - about urban studies methodologies - and in this area it is highly original and in some ways sets a new agenda for other researchers, historians, anthropologists, ethnologists, and those using cultural studies approaches. * John Foot, University College London This is one of the best books I have read: beautifully written and extremely well researched (a refreshing mix of archival research and participant observation) and superbly theorized, with an impressive knowledge of the range of urban theory, as well as meticulous historical contextualization. * Jo Labanyi, New York University - [A]n interesting and readable text. It is scholarly, ambitious in scope and well written. * Victoria Goddard, Goldsmiths, University of London Author InformationNick Dines lived and worked in Naples for seven years. He is research fellow in Sociology at Middlesex University, London. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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