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A CITY OF ONE'S OWN

A City of Ones Own

Blurring the Boundaries Between Private and Public

Edited by
Sophie Body-Gendrot
Universit Paris IV Sorbonne, France
Jacques Carr
Universit Paris IV Sorbonne, France
Romain Garbaye
Universit Paris IV Sorbonne, France

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carr and Romain Garbaye 2008

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A city of ones own: blurring the boundaries between
private and public
1. Sociology, Urban
I. Body-Gendrot, Sophie II. Carr, Jacques III. Garbaye,
Romain
307.7'6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Body-Gendrot, Sophie.
A city of one's own: blurring the boundaries between private and public / by Sophie
Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carr and Romain Garbaye.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7502-0
1. Citizens' associations--United States. 2. Citizens' associations--Great Britain. 3.
Neighborhood government--United States. 4. Neighborhood government--Great Britain.
5. Community organization--United States. 6. Community organization--Great Britain.
7. Public-private sector cooperation--United States. 8. Public-private sector cooperation
-Great Britain. 9. Community power--United States. 10. Community power--Great
Britain. 11. Political participation--United States. 12. Political participation--Great
Britain. I. Carr, Jacques. II. Garbaye, Romain. III. Title.

JS303.5.B63 2008
320.8'50941--dc22

2008028141

ISBN 9780754675020 (hbk)

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Robert A. Beauregard is Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University (USA). His most recent book is When America Became Suburban (University of Minnesota Press, 2006). He writes extensively on urban theory, urban redevelopment and urban planning.

Sophie Body-Gendrot is Professor of Political Science and of American Studies and Co-Director of CEUMA (Center of Urban Studies) at the Sorbonne (Universit Paris IV). She is an expert for the 'Urban Age' programme at the London School of Economics on safety and public space. Among her most recent books in English, she authored The Social Control of Cities? A Comparative Perspective (Blackwell 2000) and co-edited Violence in Europe (Springer 2007) and Social Capital and Social Citizenship (Lexington Books 2003).

Myriam Boussahba-Bravard is Senior Lecturer in British Political History in the British and American Studies Department, University of Rouen (France). Her research focuses on suffrage history and periodicals in the Edwardian period. She has edited Suffrage Outside Suffragism, Women's Vote, Britain 1880-1914 (Palgrave, 2007) and is currently writing a book length biography of the feminist journalist Teresa Billington-Greig (1877-1964).

Benjamin P. Bowser is Professor and Chair of Sociology and Social Services at the California State University East Bay. His research over the past twenty years has focused on HIV/AID and drug abuse prevention among African Americans. He has a number of journal publications and he is lead editor of Preventing AIDS: Community Science Collaborations (Haworth Press, 2004) and When Communities Assess their AIDS Epidemics: Results of Rapid Assessment of HIV/AIDS in Eleven US Cities (Lexington Books, 2007).

Frdric Cantaroglou holds degrees in political science and planning. He is currently Director of Information and Communication Technologies at Universit Pierre Mends France, Grenoble (France). He is also a part-time lecturer at Institut d'Urbanisme de Grenoble. His PhD thesis (Institut d'urbanisme de Grenoble, 2000) is entitled 'Le rle de l'industrie dans la mise en uvre de la planification urbaine et de la planification territoriale en France de 1850 1946'.

Jacques Carr is Professor of British Cultural History at the Sorbonne(Universit Paris IV) and Co-Director of CEUMA. He works on architecture, space and society in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. He has recently co-edited The Invisible Woman: Women's Work in Eighteenth-century Britain (Ashgate, 2005). His latest book (in French) is entitled Londres 1700-1900: naissance d'une capitale culturelle (Presses de Paris-Sorbonne, 2008).

Didier Combeau is a researcher at CEUMA at the Sorbonne (Universit Paris IV) and teaches American civilization at Universit Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has recently published a detailed study of the debate on gun control in the United States, entitled Des Amricains et des armes feu: dmocratie et violence aux Etats- Unis (Editions Belin, 2007) as well as numerous articles.

Carla Dillard Smith has been Cal-Pep's Research Director since 1992. Under her guidance Cal-Pep has partnered academic and health organizations in several large-scale research projects targeting the African American community in Northern California. She has co-written a number of Cal-Pep reports and publications. She is a former member of Alameda County's HIV Prevention Planning Council and currently serves on the Alameda County African American State of Emergency Task Force.

David Fe is a Senior lecturer in the English Studies department of the Universit Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is the author of several articles on housing policies in England as well as co-editor of two books on urban renaissance and the housing crisis in England (to be published in 2008).

Romain Garbaye is Matre de Confrences in anglophone studies at the Sorbonne (Universit Paris IV). He was previously a Jean Monnet post-doctoral fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence and he obtained his DPhil in politics at Oxford University. He is the author of Getting into Local Power, the Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities ( Blackwell, 2005), and has published several articles and book chapters on subjects such as multiculturalism or the politics of Islam in urban settings in Britain and France.

Audrey Gloor is a geographer and a planner. She is currently advisor to the Chief executive of Etablissement public d'amnagement (EPA), St Etienne (France), She was previously researcher and part time lecturer at Institut d' Urbanisme de Grenoble. Her doctoral thesis (Institut d' Urbanisme de Grenoble, 2006) is entitled 'Los Angeles: un outil de comprehension de la ville post-moderne'.

Laura Hobson Faure worked with Cal-Pep as a grant writer from 2002-2003. Her research focuses on how minorities have responded to the crises affecting them. She has conducted research on the AIDS movement in France and the United States and is currently completing a doctorate at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, on the mobilization of American Jewish organizations in France after the Holocaust. She has taught at the Universities of Paris IV, VI, and VII, as well as at the cole Polytechnique.

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