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Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

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Series: Remapping Cultural History: Perspectives on Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, Book 13

AnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1782389113
ISBN13: 9781782389118
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2015
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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