Everyday Lives in the Global City

Jörg Dürrschmidt is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England.

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The (Global) City as a Pars Pro Toto of (Global) Society?; Chapter 2 Towards a Phenomenology of Globalization; Chapter 3 Eight London Biographies–Lives in the Globalized World City; Chapter 4 The Uprooting of Milieux; Chapter 5 The Delinking of Locale and Milieu; Chapter 6 Streatham – The Reluctant Suburb: The Metropolis Extends; Chapter 7 Extended Milieu and ‘Soft City’ – Generating Symbolic Space; Chapter 8 The Globalized World City and Its ‘Cosmion’; Chapter 9 Conclusion: The End of the World City?;