Cities of Pleasure

<p>This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including:</p><ul> <li>the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of commercial sex zones and markets in the urban landscape</li> <li>how gay public spaces, districts and 'gay villages' emerged and developed in various towns and cities around the world</li> <li>how changing attitudes to, and the usage of urban sexual spaces, as depicted in iconic television series such as <em>Sex and the City</em> and <em>Queer as Folk,</em> reflect the reality of working women's or gay men's changing life experiences.</li> </ul><p>With detailed case studies, and a strong interdisciplinary appeal, this book will be a valuable reference for postgraduates and advanced students in the fields of cultural studies as well as human, urban and social geography.</p><p>This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal <em>Urban Studies.</em></p> <p>1. Sexuality and Sexual Services in the Urban Economy and Socialscape: An Overview <strong>Part 1: Commercial Sexual Spaces, Markets and Community Responses </strong>2. Space, Risk and Opportunity: The Evolution of Paid Sex Markets 3. The Changing Nature of Adult Entertainment Districts: Between a Rock and a Hard Place or Going from Strength to Strength? 4. Cleansing the Metropolis: Sex Work and the Politics of Zero Tolerance 5. The Risks of Street Prostitution: Punters, Police and Protesters <strong>Part 2: Evolution and Development of Urban Gay Spaces </strong>6. Homosexuality and the City: An Historical Overview 7. Urban Space and Homosexuality: The Example of the Marais, Paris' 'Gay Ghetto' 8. Where Love Dares (Not) Speak Its Name: The Expression of Homosexuality in Singapore 9. Sexual Dissidence, Enterprise and Assimilation: Bedfellows in Urban Regeneration 10. Authenticating Queer Space: Citizenship, Urbanism and Governance <strong>Part 3: Urban Sexuality </strong>11. Sex and Not the City?: The Aspirations of the Thirty-Something Working Woman 12. Queer as Folk: Producing the Real of Urban Space</p>