Titre et auteur:

Moving cities - contested views on urban life / Lígia Ferro, Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Patrícia Pereira, Juan José Villalón (Eds.).

Publication:

Wiesbaden : Springer VS, imprint of Springer Nature, [2018]

Description:

vi, 226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life - Editors' Introduction / Lígia Ferro, Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Patrícia Pereira and Juan Jose Villalón -- The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier / Saskia Sassen -- On Roots and Routes. Te Quest for Community in Times of Diversity and Inequality / Talja Blokland -- Daily Mobility and Urban Sprawl. Mobile Ethnography in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (MRB) / Joan J. Pujadas and Gaspar Maza -- Empty Space: Historical Memory in the Contemporary City / Ray Hutchison -- The 2014 World Cup on the Streets of Vila Madalena (São Paulo) / Heitor Frúgoli Jr. -- Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity. A comparison of shopping streets in Brussels, Paris and Geneva / Maxime Felder and Loïc Pignolo -- Measuring Deprivation in the City of Barcelona. Incorporating Subjective and Objective Factors / Riccardo Valente -- Analysing Pilsen Mexican Neighbourhood in Chicago through the lens of competitiveness and social cohesion / Nunzia Borrelli and Kathleen M. Adams -- Perceived social disorder in post-WWII housing estates: recent evidence from Finland / Teemu Kemppainen -- New Means of Behaviour and Space Appropriation in the Post-Privatisation Era. The Case of Starčevica, Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) / Sonja Lakić -- Urban Gardening between Agency and Structure. The Potential for a New Form of Social Activism to Inspire Bottom-up Processes of City Making / Jennifer Morstein -- The Pop Up City in a Time of Crisis. Experimental Strategies for Rebuilding Detroit / Eve Avdoulos.

Résumé:

This book focuses on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility. 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.

ISBN:

3658184612
9783658184612
9783658184629 (e-book)
3658184620

Sujet:

City and town life.
Sociology, Urban.
Vie urbaine.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.

Vedettes secondaires:

Ferro, Lígia, editor.
Smagacz-Poziemska, Marta, editor.
Gómez, M. Victoria, editor.
Kurtenbach, Sebastian, editor.
Pereira, Patrícia, editor.
Villalón Ogáyar, Juan José, editor.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 297555
Cote: BIB 243912
Statut: Disponible