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Author Goode, Erich, author.

Title The taming of New York's Washington Square : a wild civility / Erich Goode.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The people in the square -- Public space -- Defining deviance -- Social control -- Race -- Sex and gender in public -- The heterotopia.
Summary "With rich and detailed observations as well as in-depth interviews, Goode demonstrates how onlookers, bystanders, and witnesses--both denizens and your average casual park visitor--provide an effective system of social control, keeping more serious wrongdoing in check. Goode also profiles the parks visitors, showing us that the park is a major draw to residents and tourists alike. Visitors come from all over; only a quarter of the park's visitors live in the neighborhood (the Village and SoHo), one out of ten are tourists, and one out of six are from upper Manhattan or the Bronx. Goode looks at the patterns of who visits the park, when they come, and, once in the park, where they go. Regardless of where they live, Goode argues, all of the Park's visitors help keep the park safe and lively."--Provided by publisher
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Washington Square (New York, N.Y.)
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York.
City and town life.
New York (State) -- New York.
Social control -- New York (State) -- New York.
Social control.
Deviant behavior -- New York (State) -- New York.
Deviant behavior.
New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
National Book Committee.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Manners and customs.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Social conditions.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
New York (State) -- New York -- Washington Square.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Other Form: Print version: Goode, Erich. Taming of New York's Washington Square. New York : New York University Press, [2018] 9781479878574 (DLC) 2018021039 (OCoLC)1031945499
ISBN 9781479872718 (electronic book)
1479872717 (electronic book)
9781479878574
147987857X
9781479898213
147989821X