Publics and the City

Kurt Iveson is Lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements.1 The Problem with Public Space.2 Publics and the City.3 Making a Claim: The Regulation of Protest at Parliament House, Canberra.4 Cruising: Governing Beat Sex in Melbourne.5 Making a Name: Writing Graffiti in Sydney.6 "No Fun. No Hope. Don't Belong." : Re-making "Public Space" in Neo-liberal Perth.7 Justifying Exclusion: Keeping Men out of the Ladies’ Baths, Sydney.8 Imagining the Public City: Concluding Reflections.Bibliography.Index

"Rich and varied case studies make the material accessible ... .An original, engaging, and interesting contribution to debates about the uses, meanings, and urban dimensions of public address and public space." (American Journal of Sociobiology, February 2010) "An important book ... .Compelling." (Progress in Human Geography, February 2010)“Iveson clearly demonstrates why issues of publicness should be of concern to all geographers, and he suggests that there is too much at stake to accept existing normative assumptions about the decline of the public sphere.” (Cultural Geographies, October 2008)