Abstract
The history of cities is often a visual history, dominated by the sense of sight. Yet the sense of smell can provide an odd pathway through the contemporary city. Ana Kvalheim provides a study of an uncomfortable, troubling and unpopular topic in urban studies: excrement on city streets. She explores the international strategies to manage dog excrement, with attention to the cyclical failures in change management in Brighton and Hove.
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Keep Britain Tidy, Dog Fouling, May 2010, http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/KeyIssues/DogFouling/Default.aspx
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Brighton & Hove City Council, Animal Welfare, http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1112321; New Rules on Dogs, http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/index.cfm?request=c1195746
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Hotel de Ville, Paris, http://www.paris.fr/portail/accueil/Portal.lut?page_id=1, April 2010.
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ibid.
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The United Nations Environment Programme 2009, p. 81.
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Realneo’s blog on: Human and Animal Waste to Save the World: The Ultimate (Bio recycling) Solution? http://realneo.us/blog/sudhir-raghupathy/human-and-animal-waste-to-save-the-world-the-ultimate-biorecycling-solution
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The New York Time’s blog on “Ithaca’s Pioneers of Dog Waste Composting,” http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/ithacas-pioneers-of-dog-waste-composting/
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ATYPYK Company, Dog Shit Luck, http://www.atypyk.com/dogshit/products.html
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Kvalheim, A. (2014). Sticky Brighton: Dog Excrement in Brighton and Hove Public Areas. In: Brabazon, T. (eds) City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay. GeoJournal Library, vol 108. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7235-9_7
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