Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Emancipatory City - Loretta Lees Urban (Re)Visions PART ONE: CITIES OF (IN) DIFFERENCE Domesticating Monsters - Susan Ruddick Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City - Nicholas FyfeImpurity and the Emancipatory City - Les Back and Michael Keith Young People, Community Safety and Racial DangerThe Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities - James DeFilippis and Peter North PART TWO: EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces of Reclaim the Streets - Gavin BrownInventing New Games - David Pinder Unitary Urbanism and the Politics of Space Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City - Gary Bridge Urban Escapades - Quentin Stevens Play in Melbourne's Public Spaces PART THREE: UTOPIC TRAJECTORIES The Urban Basis of Emancipation - Jennifer Robinson Spatial Theory and the City in South African PoliticsWater, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism - Matthew GandyIn Search of the Horizon - Geraldine Pratt and Rose Marie San Juan Utopia in The Truman Show and The MatrixGhosts and the City of Hope - Steve PileREFLECTIONS The `Emancipatory' City? - Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift The Right to the City - David Harvey

The ambivalent status of urban space in terms of emancipation, democratisation, justice and citizenship is central to recent work in urban geography. Through exploration of the tensions and possibilities between freedoms and constraints offered by the city, the authors build on current perspectives to present an analysis of urban experience.