Michael Miller
Ashgate
Hardback
364
2003
This work considers how myth collective memory and history interact in the construction of place-based identities in the city and how such identities become crucial stakes in determining the future of particular areas neighbourhoods and districts. By analysing two case studies of public protest against urban planning projects the author looks at how dominant discourses promoted by urban elites have been challenged by groups with little experience of participating in urban governance.