Those “Gorgeous Incongruities”: Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York City

Domosh, Mona

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“…Hence, while it is exciting to view the city as a contested battle® eld, the Little India case supports Staeheli and Thompson' s (1997) view of cities as places of con¯icts as much as of co-existence between different people. And where con¯icts do occur, Domosh (1998) reminds us that they need not be combatory clashes but can be subtle`everyday' acts of transgression. In Little India, unsensational tacticsÐ such as complaints in the press about migrant workersÐ have had results, as exempli® ed by more stringent policing of streets and crowds.…”

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Singapore's Little India: A Tourist Attraction as a Contested Landscape

Chang

2000

Urban Studies

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This paper explores Singapore' s Little India historic district as an example of a contested urban landscape. Speci® cally, it argues that Little India is a site of struggle betweeǹ insider' and`outsider' groups. Using primarily Relph's notion of`insideness' and`outsideness', and other concepts dealing with spatial resistance and domination, different groups of people with differing degrees of attachment to Little India are identi® ed. The insider± outsider cleavage is interrogated from three perspectives: the relationship between tourists and locals; ethnic tensions between Indian and Chinese communities; and, interaction between planners and users of the urban landscape. In exploring the myriad insider± outsider dynamics, it is contended that who represents an`insider' and who is considered an`outsider' is open to negotiation. This is because different people possess differing conceptions of`insideness', in turn giving rise to varying senses of attachment and belonging to place. This paper critiques existing tourism writings which focus predominantly on the relationship between tourists and locals, and it argues that in any tourist destination the tourist± local con¯ict is only one aspect of a much larger struggle over place. For this reason, urban tourism studies must focus on the wider arena in which the tourist± local interaction is set.

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Singapore's Little India: A Tourist Attraction as a Contested Landscape

Chang

2000

Urban Studies

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“…They serve as sights for promenading (Domosh, 1998), the underground economy as well as permitted street vending (Blomley, 2007b(Blomley, , 2011Duneier, 1999), political activity (Mitchell, 2003), sitting and sleeping (Amster, 2004), outdoor café seating, and, of course, movement (Blomley, 2011), including just drifting about the city with no discernable purpose (de Certeau, 1984;Wilson, 1991). In many neighborhoods, they function as extensions of front yards (Loukaitou-Sideris & Ehrenfeucht, 2014).…”

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Syracuse, sidewalks, and snow: the slippery realities of public space

Rannila

Mitchell

2016

Urban Geography

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This article addresses sidewalks as particular kinds of public spaces. Sidewalks of residential areas have been understudied; debates have tended to concentrate on pedestrian flows in commercial districts. By discussing the snowy sidewalks of Syracuse, New York, this article asks how sidewalks appear in law, and how responsibility for sidewalks is divided between governments and property owners. According to law and ordinances, sidewalks are responsibility of adjacent property owners. Unofficial monitoring has turned property owners' sidewalk responsibilities away from questions of liability to questions of morality. Sidewalks evince a moral order, where questions concern not only pedestrian flows or laws, but also attitudes of others. A snowy sidewalk appears as a contested moral order, whose publicity is questionable because of the sidewalk's reliance on private responsibility and policing. In the end, then, this article provides insights into how laws concerning public space are both maintained and questioned in everyday practices, and how the regulatory systems advance-or hinderthe publicity of public spaces like sidewalks. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…These public places can serve as 'third places' (Oldenburg, 1999) -the social gathering spots that lie between home and work and provide individuals with the opportunity to form bonds with one another and with the location itself, which can be severely disrupted if the place dissolves (Duneier, 1992;Milligan, 1998). Over long periods of repeated patterns of interaction, they can also give rise to a type of civil order structured around norms Urban Design and Planning 163 Issue DP2 Seeking common ground: three perspectives on public space Neal and behavioural codes like those observed by Anderson (1990) in the streets of a racially mixed area of Philadelphia or those illustrated by nineteenth century magazine engravings of New York City's Fifth Avenue and Broadway (Domosh, 1998). Public places can also serve as the basis for individual and place identity and the foundation of local culture (Zukin, 1995).…”

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Seeking common ground: three perspectives on public space

Neal

2010

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Desig

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Public spaces have been a central concern of urban planners for centuries; more recently they have also captured the attention of sociologists, geographers, political scientists and economists. Focusing on urban public spaces, this review outlines three major perspectives on public space. The legal-economic perspective seeks to answer the most concrete questions about public space (what is it and who pays for it?), thereby laying the definitional and institutional groundwork for other enquiries. The socio-spatial perspective takes the existence of public space for granted and is more concerned with questions of design and application (what does it look like and how is it used?). Finally, the political perspective asks about public space's role in democracy, both abstractly as a site for discursive activities and concretely as a site of exclusion or empowerment. While these three perspectives frequently overlap in practice, they are nonetheless distinguishable in their origins, assumptions and foci. This paper thus serves to illustrate the potential for further cross-disciplinary connections that would enhance understanding of how public space works.Urban Design and Planning 163 Issue DP2 Seeking common ground: three perspectives on public space Neal

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Those “Gorgeous Incongruities”: Polite Politics and Public Space on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century New York City

Cited by 118 publications

References 40 publications

Singapore's Little India: A Tourist Attraction as a Contested Landscape

Singapore's Little India: A Tourist Attraction as a Contested Landscape

Syracuse, sidewalks, and snow: the slippery realities of public space

Seeking common ground: three perspectives on public space

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