Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London

James Rosbrook-Thompson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He is an urban sociologist whose research interests include ‘race’ and ethnicity, citizenship and belonging, youth delinquency, and sport. Gary Armstrong is Reader in Sociology at Brunel University, UK. He has written extensively on surveillance, youth delinquency, football hooliganism, and sporting cultures in a range of settings including Liberia and Malta.

• 1. Introduction: A Living Tapestry?.- 2. Setting the Scene.- 3. Mixed Occupancy – Mixed Occupations?.- 4. Custodians of (Dis)order: The Pusher, the Publican and the Matriarch.- 5. Rubbing Along: Proximity and Understandings of Difference.- 6. Habitable Space? The Price of Gentrification.- 7. Mater out of Place? Women, Mobility, Livelihood and Power.- 8. Conclusion: The Tapestry Unpicked?.