2005/02/25 by Dick Hobbs, Simon Winlow, Philip Hadfield +1 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Environmental Science · #Night-time city culture #Impact of Light on Environment and Health #Urban Transport and Accessibility
paper · doi:10.1177/1477370805050864
openalex publication_date 2005/02/25 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
The development of alcohol-based night-time economies as part of government-sponsored post-industrial urban regeneration involves two interconnected political and economic processes. The first is the shift to a consumer economy, and the second is the movement within local governance from the provision of services towards a focus upon nurturing economic growth. The violence and disorder that have resulted from the huge expansion in these night-time economies have produced a crisis for state policing that has led, via licensing, to the expansion of commercially relevant control strategies. This paper, based upon extensive empirical research, discusses the hypocrisy that is inherent in the governance of liminal licence.