%0 Journal Article %T ¡®Polishing the Apple¡¯: The Systematic Eradication of ¡®Otherness¡¯ from the New York Crowd Polir la Grande Pomme : L¡¯¨¦radication syst¨¦matique de l¡¯alt¨¦rit¨¦ dans la foule newyorkaise %A Darren Richard Carlaw %J Conserveries M¨¦morielles : Revue Transdisciplinaire de Jeunes Chercheurs %D 2010 %I Conserveries M¨¦morielles %X This article recognises Manhattan¡¯s current precarious state as it seeks to evict ¡®outsiders¡¯ from its shores via a combined process of surveillance and gentrification. This ongoing filtering process will have a direct impact on the multiplicity of its crowds, as the presence and history of the ¡®outsider¡¯ is rapidly eradicated. Manhattan has been a partitioned space since its early beginnings as a metropolis. The rigid grid system was an attempt to impose order on a disorderly space. I examine the manner in which a potential for disorder has always been inherent within the grid, and how the current efforts to stem all forms of disorder at street level threatens Manhattan¡¯s existence as a creative centre. I further examine the street as a performance space. The city¡¯s density and complex network of social boundaries dictate a definite sense of place, in terms of insider and outsidership. In such a space, the performance of identity becomes an essential survival method for the walker when passing through multiple urban divides. I seek to critically reassess how strategies of social transgression employed by Manhattan¡¯s community of excluded ¡®outsiders¡¯, such as ¡®passing¡¯, border crossing and flanerie have been appropriated and/or utilised by the State. As pedestrians come under increasingly heavy surveillance, I consider the manner in which the city¡¯s nomads have taken refuge beneath the streets. My analysis of current trends portends the creation of an obedient, sterile cityspace where ¡®outsidership¡¯ itself is no more than a mere performance. Cet article prend acte de l¡¯¨¦tat pr¨¦caire de Manhattan alors que les autorit¨¦s s¡¯efforcent d¡¯¨¦vacuer ses outsiders par un processus combin¨¦ de surveillance et de gentrification. Ce processus continuel de filtrage a un effet direct sur la multiplicit¨¦ des foules newyorkaises alors que la pr¨¦sence et l¡¯h¨¦ritage historique des outsiders se voit rapidement ¨¦radiqu¨¦e. Manhattan a constitu¨¦ un espace partitionn¨¦ depuis les premi¨¨res heures de son histoire et son syst¨¨me rigide de quadrillage des art¨¨res ¨¦tait d¨¦j¨¤ au d¨¦part un effort d¡¯ordonnancement d¡¯un espace de d¨¦sordre. Cet article examine cependant de quelle mani¨¨re ce syst¨¨me de quadrillage a toujours recel¨¦ un potentiel de contestation, alors que les tentatives actuelles pour contrer toute forme de d¨¦sordre au niveau des rues menace le caract¨¨re de Manhattan comme centre de cr¨¦ativit¨¦. Cet article examinera par la suite la rue comme espace de performance. Le tissu dense et complexe des fronti¨¨res sociales ¨¤ New York dicte un sens du lieu qui d¨¦finit les ap %K place %K difference %K crowd %K citizen %K destruction %K identity %K change %K gentrification %K d¨¦placement %K foule %K citoyen %K destruction %K identit¨¦ %K gentrification %K New York %K USA %U http://cm.revues.org/686