lo Squaderno (Sep 2014)

Unmaking and remaking urban crowds

  • Marco Cremaschi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 33
pp. 27 – 30

Abstract

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For a long time, urban planners and their views on the city have been affected by the dominant negative imagery propounded by conservative thinkers such as Gustave Le Bon (1895): the crowd was stigmatised as politically dangerous, dirty, and disorganised

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