Urban night has undergone a significant transformation over recent decades, shifting from being a peripheral and liminal space-time to becoming both a new market for implementing processes of urban regeneration, and a problematic contest that needs to be regulated by developing new strategies of surveillance and control. Building on Henri Lefebvre's "critique of everyday life," we develop a "critique of everyday life of the night," since a common thread links the flatness and monotony of everyday life to the changes that have affected nightlife. Taking the city of Turin (Italy) as a case study, the impact economicist and securitarian urban policies on its nightlife is analyzed, in what is described as a process of 'eveningification.' Nevertheless, Lefebvre's permanent dialectic between flatness and extraordinariness of existence led us to carry out a rhythmanalysis of Turin's most problematic square in order to understand various practices and spatial dynamics in an 'eveningificated' neighborhood.

Critique of everyday life of the night: Young people's re-appropriation of Turin's eveningificated nightlife

Petrilli, Enrico
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2024-01-01

Abstract

Urban night has undergone a significant transformation over recent decades, shifting from being a peripheral and liminal space-time to becoming both a new market for implementing processes of urban regeneration, and a problematic contest that needs to be regulated by developing new strategies of surveillance and control. Building on Henri Lefebvre's "critique of everyday life," we develop a "critique of everyday life of the night," since a common thread links the flatness and monotony of everyday life to the changes that have affected nightlife. Taking the city of Turin (Italy) as a case study, the impact economicist and securitarian urban policies on its nightlife is analyzed, in what is described as a process of 'eveningification.' Nevertheless, Lefebvre's permanent dialectic between flatness and extraordinariness of existence led us to carry out a rhythmanalysis of Turin's most problematic square in order to understand various practices and spatial dynamics in an 'eveningificated' neighborhood.
2024
Inglese
Esperti anonimi
154
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10
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105402
Lefebvre; Production of space; Night-time economy; Eveningification; Rhythmanalysis; Turin
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Petrilli, Enrico; Biagi, Francesco
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