Hardcover. Condition: New. unmarked. 12 illustrations, 8 maps. bibliog., index // Shipped carefully packed in a sturdy box. Nick Dines? book is the result of an extended ethnographic and archival research conducted in Naples during and after the second half of the 1990s, a period of intense physical and symbolic restructuring of the city under Mayor Bassolino?s administration known as the Neapolitan renaissance.

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Title

Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples (Remapping Cultural History)

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Publication Date

2012

Language

English

ISBN 10

0857452797

ISBN 13

9780857452795

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

New

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Weight

1.4 pounds

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Berghahn Books

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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.

About the Author

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

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