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Cities & social change : encounters with contemporary urbanism / edited by Ronan Paddison & Eugene McCann.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Los Angeles ; London ; New Delhi ; Singapore ; Washington DC : SAGE, c2014Description: xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781848601109 (paperback)
  • 1848601107 (paperback)
  • 9781848601093 (hardback)
  • 1848601093 (hardback)
Other title:
  • Cities and social change
  • Encounters with contemporary urbanism
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 23 CIT
Other classification:
  • 71.41
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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.

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