Gesa Helms

Towards Safe City Centres? (eBook, ePUB)

Remaking the Spaces of an Old-Industrial City

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317008859
• Artikelnr.: 44815260

Autorenporträt

Dr Gesa Helms is a Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Empirical Vignettes: Introduction: towards safe city centres?
Marxian social praxis and the production of space
Critical Marxism, the production of space and safe city centres: towards a research agenda
Remaking the (old-industrial) city: urban restructuring, imagineering and crime control
Regulating the spaces of an old-industrial city
Representing the city centre: Glasgow's city centre representatives
Discussion: towards safe city centres
Bibliography
Index.