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>