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Berghahn Books Tuff City Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples 2012 Edition by Nick Dines
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. Table of contents :- List of IllustrationsList of MapsList of AbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPART I: URBAN CHANGE IN AN ORDINARY CITY: NAPLES DURING THE 1990sChapter 1. The Centro Storico: History of a Concept and PlaceChapter 2. Between the General and the Particular: A Neapolitan Version of 'Urban Regeneration'Chapter 3. The Left, the Politics of Citizenship and Shifting Ideas about NaplesChapter 4. Public Space and Urban ChangePART II: THE MAKING OF A REGENERATION SYMBOL: HERITAGE, DECORUM AND THE INCURSIONS OF THE EVERYDAY IN PIAZZA PLEBISCITOChapter 5. Enter the Historic PiazzaChapter 6. From Royal Courtyard to Car ParkChapter 7. The Regeneration of Piazza PlebiscitoChapter 8. Sous les Paves, la Place! An Ethnography of the New Piazza PlebiscitoChapter 9. Exit Piazza Plebiscito: Rethinking 'Civic' SpacePART III: DEPROVINCIALISING URBAN REGENERATION: PIAZZA GARIBALDI AND IMMIGRATION DURING THE BASSOLINO ERAChapter 10. Enter the Station PiazzaChapter 11. Antechamber to the Southern Italian Capital (1860-1994Chapter 12. Piazza Garibaldi as an Unregenerate Space (1994-2001)Chapter 13. Mapping Immigrant Experiences in and of Piazza GaribaldiChapter 14. Exit Piazza Garibaldi: (Re)connecting Immigration and Urban RenewalPART IV: AN ALTERNATIVE IDEA OF PUBLIC SPACE: THE CENTRO SOCIALE IN MONTESANTOChapter 15. Enter a Neighbourhood ParkChapter 16. The Popular Neighbourhoods in the Twentieth CenturyChapter 17. Diego Armando Maradona Montesanto (DAMM): Collective Action over Public Space in MontesantoChapter 18. Exit DAMM: The Constitutive Role of Collective Action upon Public SpaceConclusion: Rethinking Urban Change in Late Twentieth-Century NaplesGlossary of Italian TermsBibliographyIndex