ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book attempts to explain how transgression can be built into the landscape of an area and concerns what happens to other forms of spatial transgression; for example, the spaces of the night, in the form of nightlife, and the night itself as an different and transgressive time zone. It examines the interrelationship between socio-cultural change and regulatory regimes; specifically, how changing economic and social conditions had prompted a shift in the nature of licensing regulation from one of standardised and universal closing times and control over supply, to a regime where cultural, spatial and behaviour controls were being innovated and directed at different types of venue. The book illustrates the excavation of both alternative and Afro-Caribbean cultural forms in favour of sanitised middle-class consumption created instability and conflict and moreover do not necessarily lend itself to sustainability.
