Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvLígia Ferro,Marta Smagacz-Poziemska,M. Victoria Gómez,Sebastian Kurtenbach,Patrícia Pereira,Juan José Villalón,Ligia Ferro,M. Victoria Gomez,Patricia Pereira,Juan Jose Villalon

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The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism, community, neighbourhood life, uses of public spaces and methodological approaches to urban life such as ethnography.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-08-15
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor226
FörlagSpringer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
ISBN9783658184612

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Lígia Ferro is assistant professor at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto. She is also a researcher at the Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto and at the CIES-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.Marta Smagacz-Poziemska works at the Instytut Socjologii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Krakow, Poland.M. Victoria Gómez is senior lecturer at the Departamento de Análisis Social, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.Sebastian Kurtenbach, Dr, is researcher at the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG), Bielefeld University, Germany.Patrícia Pereira is post-doctoral researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, CICS.NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.Juan José Villalón is senior lecturer of sociology at the Departmento de Sociología III (Tendencias Sociales), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain.

Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life: Editors’ Introduction.- The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier.- On Roots and Routes. The Quest for Community in Times of Diversity and Inequality.- Daily Mobility and Urban Sprawl: Mobile Ethnography in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (MRB).- Empty Space: Historical Memory in the Contemporary City.- The 2014 World Cup on the Streets of Vila Madalena (São Paulo).- Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity: a comparison of shopping streets in Brussels, Paris and Geneva.- Measuring Deprivation in the City of Barcelona: Incorporating Subjective and Objective Factors.- Analysing Pilsen Mexican Neighbourhood in Chicago through the lens of competitiveness and social cohesion.- Perceived social disorder in post-WWII housing estates: recent evidence from Finland.- New Means of Behaviour and Space Appropriation in the Post-Privatisation Era. The Case of Starčevica, Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina).- Urban Gardening between Agency and Structure. The Potential for a New Form of Social Activism to Inspire Bottom-up Processes of City Making.- The Pop Up City in a Time of Crisis: Experimental Strategies for Rebuilding Detroit.