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Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy

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From New York to San Francisco, Times Square to the Tenderloin, graffiti artists, young people, radical environmentalists, and the homeless clash with police on city streets in an attempt to take back urban spaces from the developers and 'disneyfiers'. Drawing on more than a decade of first-hand research, this lively account goes inside the worlds of street musicians, homeless punks, militant bicycle activists, high-risk 'BASE jump' parachutists, skateboarders, outlaw radio operators, and hip hop graffiti artists, to explore the day-to-day skirmishes in the struggle over public life and public space.
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  1. ISBN-10
    140396033X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1403960337
  3. Publisher
    Palgrave Macmillan
  4. Publication date
    December 31, 2002
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.66 x 8.25 inches
  7. Print length
    288 pages
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'Provides an energetic and highly informed look at environmental and political movements to nonviolently 'reclaim the streets' - Publishers Weekly

'Strongly recommended for anyone interested in cities and city life.' - Choice

'...provides and energetic and highly informed look at environmental and political movements to nonviolently 'reclaim the streets.' - Publishers Weekly

'...those who have felt themselves being smothered for the sake of an artificial community will find it difficult not to share his sympathies...' - Booklist

'His firsthand field experience and passion add insight to his discussion of the daily lives of these groups and give his personal accounts excitement and interest.' - Mindy S. Wilson, Contemporary Sociology

About the Author

JEFF FERRELL is Professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University. He is the foremost practitioner of ethnographic criminology, a field he pioneered. Ferrell has received awards from the American Criminological Association for his research. His acclaimed and widely-reviewed books include Crimes of Style, Cultural Criminology, and Ethnography at the Edge.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Palgrave Macmillan (December 31, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 140396033X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1403960337
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.66 x 8.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
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Important and useful book (can't say I quite see BASE jumping as the ararchist, revolutionary act that the author does, though). Don't know why Amazon has it priced so ridiculously high. Search for it at your public or university library, do interlibrary loan if you have to - it's worth it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars URBAN AESTHETICS FOR EVERYDAY LIFE
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2007
One of the most important books I have read for the reclaiming of social space in an increasingly controlled and legislated urban landscape. His discussion of hotel cleaning women working on a Sunday morning in different rooms while singing Gospel music with each other is alone worth the cost of the book. The book is mandatory reading for anyone doing public art or performance, writing about it, or just trying to figure out why the Paris Commune is so important to understanding life in the city.
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