Cities & social change : encounters with contemporary urbanism / Cities and social change Encounters with contemporary urbanism edited by Ronan Paddison & Eugene McCann. - xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Contents;

Section 1: Theorising the city
1. Introduction: Encountering the city - Multiple perspectives on urban social change
2. Representing and imagining the city

Section 2: Experiencing the city
3. The new middle class, lifestyle and the new gentrified city
4. Being poor in the city
5. Living with difference: Reflections on geographies of encounter
6. The everyday city of the senses

Section 3: The liveable city
7. Dis/order and the regulation of urban space
8. Walling the city
9. Health and the city
10. Cities, nature and sustainability
11. Just cities

Section 4: Reflections on cities and social change
12. The good city?
13. Conclusion: Engaging the urban world





Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781848601109 (paperback) 1848601107 (paperback) 9781848601093 (hardback) 1848601093 (hardback)

2013954632

016163702 Uk


Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Social change.
Cities and towns.
Social change.
Sociology, Urban.
Stadtsoziologie.
Urbanität.
Soziokultureller Wandel.
Urbanisatie.
Stadssociologie.
Stadsliv.
Social förändring.
Städer - tillväxt.

307.76 / CIT