Exploring Nightlife

Comprising original contemporary research, this collection brings together case studies from across the globe that explore topics including nightlife and urban development, race, gender and youth culture, alcohol and drug use, and urban renewal.

Acknowledgements / List of Figures / INTRODUCTION, by Adam Eldridge & Jordi Nofre / PART 1 - NIGHTLIFE AND URBAN CHANGE IN THE NEO-LIBERAL CITY / 1. Chrystel Oloukoï . The night in Maboneng (Johannesburg, South Africa): An urban frontier in-between securization, commodification and contestation. / 2. Peta Wolifson. 'Civilising' by gentrifying: The contradictions of neoliberal planning for nightlife in Sydney. / 3. Nihad engi & Jordi Martí n-Dí az: Night-time economy and urban development in post-socialist Sarajevo. / 4. Penny Koutrolikou: Kerameikos - Metaxourgio: Entertaining ourselves in Athens' "ghettoes of the mind". / PART 2 - POWER, CULTURE AND IDENTITY / 5. Atepheh Amid: Mashhad, Iran: Challenges and Opportunities in a 24-hour City / 6. José Sá nchez-Garcí a: Cairo Nights: Mulids and the politics of Mahraganat music. / 7. Samantha Wilkinson: Young People, Alcohol and Suburban Nightscapes in Manchester. / 8. Marion Roberts: Reviewing night-time economy policies through a gendered lens: gender aware or gender neutral? / PART 3 - GOVERNANCE OF THE URBAN NIGHT / 9. Daniel Malet-Calvo, Joã o Carlos Martins & Í ñ igo Sá nchez-Fuarros: Consumption patterns of Erasmus students in Lisbon: Circulating between mainstream and alternative nightscapes. / 10. Emanuele Giordano & Dominique Crozat: Nightlife and urban change in Southern European cities: The case of Montpellier. / 11. Irina van Aalst & Ilse van Liempt: Red Light Districts of Amsterdam. / 12. Helena Valente, Cristiana Pires & Helena Carvalho: Nightlife as an educational setting: the harm reduction perspective in Portugal. / 13. Marcos Paulo Ferreira de Gó is: Policies for nightlife and the democratic city: from urban renewal to behaviour control in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. / PART 4 - EPILOGUE, by Will Straw