Includes bibliographical references (p. [176]-185) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- City publics : the (dis)enchantments of urban encounters -- Constructing public space -- Psychoanalytic accounts -- The book's outline -- Symbolic spaces of difference : contesting the eruv in Barnet, London and Tenafly, New Jersey -- Constitution matters : the case of the Tenafly, New Jersey eruv -- Planning and local government : English sites of conservatism and the Barnet eruv -- Discourses of dissent -- Concluding reflections -- Postscript -- Nostalgia at work : living with difference in a London street market -- Princess Street market -- Nostalgia -- Crime and safety -- Cosmopolitanism and socio-economic decline -- Being anglophone -- Being Christian -- Welfare chauvinism -- Conclusion -- Risky space and money talks : the Hampstead Ponds meet state regulation -- The Hampstead Ponds -- A question of money? -- Conclusion -- Disrobing in public : embodied differences in bathing sites -- Steaming bodies : Turkish baths and the performance of difference -- Hampstead Ponds -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Invisible subjects : encounter, desire and association amongst older people -- Invisibility -- The university of the third age (U3A) -- Allotments -- Unsexy bodies -- A state of fear -- Conclusion -- Children's publics -- Children and public space : a case study -- Conclusion -- The (dis)enchantments of urban encounters : some concluding reflections -- Public/private -- Stranger danger -- Risk -- Affect effect -- Towards enchanted urban encounters.
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