Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Dodsworth, Francis (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 235-244

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

10 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch20

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

management of mobility, emergence of modern city ‐ built form and its use , mobility and civility ‐ police and formation of modern city , revival of interest in “police”, by Michel Foucault, Mitchell Dean ‐ police and regulation enabling flows , Manchester's Police Commission, 1792 ‐ level of civility, buildings in areas needing expansion , mechanisms, for the social ordering ‐ as a system of “police” , police reform and urban improvement ‐ late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century Manchester , creation of Police Commission in Manchester ‐ first paid, hierarchically organized police system for city , Police Commission, and “interior order and economy of the town” , Manchester Police Commission, for city reconstruction ‐ facilitating flow of people and goods