ISBN:
9780203122259
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9780415890359
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 228 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Geography
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Geography Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City : Regulating Spaces of Social Dancing in New York
DDC:
306.4/846
Keywords:
Licenses - New York (State) - New York
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its economy and society. This book offers a detailed analysis of the conflicts emerging between newly transplanted middle-class populations and different sectors of nightlife actors, and how these conflicts have led the NYC government to enforce "Quality of Life" policing over nightlife businesses. In particular, it provides a deep investigation of the zoning regulations that the municipal government has employed to control where certain types of nightlife can or cannot be located. Hae demonstrates the ways in which these struggles over nightlife have led to the "gentrification of nightlife," while infringing on urban inhabitants' rights of access to spaces of diverse urban subcultures, their "right to the city." The author also connects these struggles to the widely documented phenomenon of the increasing militarization of social life and space in contemporary cities, and the right to the city movements that have emerged in response. The story presented here involves dynamic and often contradictory interactions between different anti/pro-nightlife actors, illustrating what "actually existing" gentrification and post-industrialization looks like, and providing an urgent example for experts in related fields to consider as part of a re-theorization of gentrification and post-industrialization"--
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone the gentrification of its space and the post-industrialization of its economy and society. This book offers a detailed analysis of the conflicts emerging between newly transplanted middle-class populations and different sectors of nightlife actors, and how these conflicts have led the NYC government to enforce "Quality of Life" policing over nightlife businesses. In particul
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover; The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Common Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Transformation of Urban Space and the Right to the City; 2 The Cabaret Law Legislation and Enforcement; 3 Development of Dance Subcultures in the 1970s; 4 Gentrification with and against Nightlife: 1979-1988; 5 Zoning out Social Dancing: The Late 1980s; 6 Disciplining Nightlife: 1990-2002; 7 Voices for Change: From 2002 Onwards; 8 The Festa Ruling, the Right of Social Dancing and the Right to the City
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionAppendix 1 Terms of Special Permits for Use Group 6A and 12A before 1990 Rezoning; Appendix 2 Community Boards in Manhattan; Appendix 3 The Requirements for Special Permits for Use Group 6C after the 1990 Rezoning; Appendix 4 Preliminary Proposal for Changing the Cabaret Laws; Notes; References; Cases Cited; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Available via World Wide Web
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