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Rights of Passage - Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow (Hardcover, New)
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Rights of Passage - Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow (Hardcover, New)
Series: Social Justice
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Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow
documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance
that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley
terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its
aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting public citizenship
and democracy. Rather, the function of the sidewalk is understood
to be the promotion and facilitation of pedestrian flow and
circulation, predicated on the appropriate arrangement of people
and objects. This remarkably pervasive yet overlooked logic shapes
the ways in which public space is regulated, conceived of, and
argued about. Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of
Public Flow shows how the sidewalk is literally produced, encoded,
rendered legible and operational with reference to a dense array of
codes, diagrams, specifications, academic and professional
networks, engineering rubrics, regulation and case law -- all in
the name of unfettered circulation. Although a powerful form of
governance, pedestrianism tends to be obscured by grander and more
visible forms of urban regulation. The rationality at work here may
appear commonplace; but, precisely because it is uncontroversial,
pedestrianism is able to operate below the academic and political
radar. Complicating the prevailing tendency to focus on the
socially directive nature of public space regulation, Blomley
reveals the particular ways in which pedestrianism deactivates
rights-based claims to public space.
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