Publics and the City

 Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory. * Advances a new framework for considering the diverse spatialities of publicness in relation to the city * Argues that a city's contribution to the making of publics goes beyond the provision of places for public gathering * Examines a series of detailed case studies * Looks at the relationship between urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

Review: "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)