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Book Review: Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

Book Review: Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow 452520 CGJ0010.1177/1474474012452520Cultural geographies XX(X)book reviews book reviews cultural geographies 20(1) 123 –126 book reviews © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474012452520 cgj.sagepub.com Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow. By Nicholas Blomley. New York: Routledge. 2011. In Rights of Passage, Nicholas Blomley presents a novel argument that should be required reading for anyone interested in public space and citizenship, law and rights, and in the political and tech- nical logics at the heart of contemporary urban design and regulation in general. For Blomley, what he terms pedestrianism is the primary organizing principle for contemporary urban design and governance: it is a logic that segments the spaces of the city into cleanly bounded, more-or- less single use spaces, with both street and sidewalk dedicated to the flow of cars and human bodies respectively. Pedestrianism is thus a ‘crucial manifestation of power and regulation that structures the ways in which state agents think about and act upon the spaces of the city’ (p. 106). Blomley’s argument is a particularly important challenge to both the scholarship on, and the activ- ism associated with, public space: efforts that see the sidewalk not only as a conduit http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Cultural Geographies SAGE

Book Review: Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

Cultural Geographies , Volume 20 (1): 2 – Jan 1, 2013
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452520 CGJ0010.1177/1474474012452520Cultural geographies XX(X)book reviews book reviews cultural geographies 20(1) 123 –126 book reviews © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permission: sagepub. co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1474474012452520 cgj.sagepub.com Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow. By Nicholas Blomley. New York: Routledge. 2011. In Rights of Passage, Nicholas Blomley presents a novel argument that should be required reading for anyone interested in public space and citizenship, law and rights, and in the political and tech- nical logics at the heart of contemporary urban design and regulation in general. For Blomley, what he terms pedestrianism is the primary organizing principle for contemporary urban design and governance: it is a logic that segments the spaces of the city into cleanly bounded, more-or- less single use spaces, with both street and sidewalk dedicated to the flow of cars and human bodies respectively. Pedestrianism is thus a ‘crucial manifestation of power and regulation that structures the ways in which state agents think about and act upon the spaces of the city’ (p. 106). Blomley’s argument is a particularly important challenge to both the scholarship on, and the activ- ism associated with, public space: efforts that see the sidewalk not only as a conduit

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