Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy

Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy
ISBN-10
140396033X
ISBN-13
9781403960337
Category
Architecture
Pages
282
Language
English
Published
2002-10
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
Jeff Ferrell

Description

From New York to San Francisco, Times Square to the Tenderloin, graffiti artists, young people, radical environmentalists, and the homeless clash with police on city streets in an attempt take back urban spaces from the developers and "disneyfiers". Drawing on more than a decade of first-hand research, this lively account goes inside the worlds of street musicians, homeless punks, militant bicycle activists, high-risk "BASE jump" parachutists, skateboarders, outlaw radio operators, and hip hop graffiti artists, to explore the day-to-day skirmishes in the struggle over public life and public space.

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