Tuff City

Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-279-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Reihe: Remapping Cultural History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dines, Nick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List 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 Pavés, 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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dines, Nick
Nick Dines lived and worked in Naples for seven years. He is research fellow in Sociology at Middlesex University, London.