Exploring Nightlife

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

‘Shaken, Not Stirred’: An Introduction to Exploring Nightlife

Part 1: Nightlife and Urban Change in the Neo-liberal City

1 Precarious Gentrification: Dreading the Night While ‘Taking Back the City’ in Johannesburg

2 Civilising by Gentrifying: The Contradictions of Neo-liberal Planning for Nightlife in Sydney, Australia

3 Night-Time Economy and Urban Change in Post-War and Post-Socialist Sarajevo

4 Amusing Ourselves in Athens’s ‘Ghettoes of the Mind’

Part 2: Power, Culture and Identity

5 Mashhad, Iran: Challenging the Concept of a Twenty-Four-Hour City

6 Cairo Nights: The Political Economy of Mahragan Music

7 Young People, Alcohol and Suburban Nightscapes

8 Reviewing Night-Time Economy Policies through a Gendered Lens: Gender Aware or Gender Neutral?

Part 3: Governance of the Urban Night

9 Consumption Patterns of Erasmus Students in Lisbon: Circulating between Mainstream and Alternative Nightscapes

10 Nightlife and Urban Change in Southern European University Cities: The Case of Montpellier

11 The Transformation of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District and Its Impact on Daily Life in the Area

12 Nightlife as an Educational Setting: The Harm Reduction Perspective

13 Policies for Nightlife and the Democratic City: From Urban Renewal to Behaviour Control in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Part 4: Afterword

Afterword: Night Mayors, Policy Mobilities and the Question of Night’s End

Bibliography

Index

About the Editors and Authors