The ambivalent status of urban space in terms of emancipation, democratisation, justice and citizenship is central to recent work in urban geography. Through exploration of the tensions and possibilities between freedoms and constraints offered by the city, the authors build on current perspectives to present an analysis of urban experience.

The Emancipatory City - Loretta Lees
Urban (Re)Visions
PART ONE: CITIES OF (IN)DIFFERENCE
Domesticating Monsters - Susan Ruddick
Cartographies of Difference and the Emancipatory City
Zero Tolerance, Maximum Surveillance? Deviance, Difference and Crime Control in the Late Modern City - Nicholas Fyfe
Impurity and the Emancipatory City - Les Back and Michael Keith
Young People, Community Safety and Racial Danger
The Emancipatory Community? Place, Politics and Collective Action in Cities - James DeFilippis and Peter North
PART TWO: EMANCIPATORY PRACTICES
Sites of Public (Homo)Sex and the Carnivalesque Spaces of Reclaim the Streets - Gavin Brown
Inventing New Games - David Pinder
Unitary Urbanism and the Politics of Space
Everyday Rationality and the Emancipatory City - Gary Bridge
Urban Escapades - Quentin Stevens
Play in Melbourne¿s Public Spaces
PART THREE: UTOPIC TRAJECTORIES
The Urban Basis of Emancipation - Jennifer Robinson
Spatial Theory and the City in South African Politics
Water, Modernity and Emancipatory Urbanism - Matthew Gandy
In Search of the Horizon - Geraldine Pratt and Rose Marie San Juan
Utopia in The Truman Show and >Ghosts and the City of Hope - Steve Pile
REFLECTIONS
The `Emancipatory¿ City? - Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift
The Right to the City - David Harvey