Sidewalks : conflict and negotiation over public space /
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Renia Ehrenfeucht.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
- x, 328 p.
- Urban and industrial environments .
1.Introduction: The social, economic, and political life of sidewalks -- 2.Construction and evolution of sidewalks -- 3.Promenading and the performance of individual identities -- 4.Performing collective identities : parades, festivals, and celebrations -- 5.Everyday politics and the right to the sidewalk -- 6.Sidewalk as space of dissent -- 7.Sidewalk as space of economic survival -- 8.Sidewalk as shelter -- 9.Sidewalk as urban forest -- 10.Controlling danger, creating fear -- 11.Municipalities in control -- 12.Revisiting public space and the role of sidewalks.