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