ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the contestation over boy racers' transgressive use of public space in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland during a period of significant urban regeneration. The chapter demonstrates how regeneration of a particular space in the city of Aberdeen resulted in the definition of driving behaviours as anti-social and related attempts to exclude young drivers from public space. Capitalist culture has also long played a role in terms of incorporating boy racer or car modification cultures into the mainstream with the aim of profit making. From the late 1990s onwards, Aberdeen City Council began to implement a host of urban regeneration and revitalization strategies in the beach area of the city, which brought the boy racers to the forefront of political, community, and media debates. Social scientists and geographers have long documented the exclusion of social groups from various public and/or social spaces in relation to the neoliberal agenda.
