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

By:

Paddison, Ronam

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Sage, 2014. London:Description: x, 273 pISBN:

9781848601109

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 CIT

Contents:

Encountering the city : multiple perspectives on urban social change / Ronan Paddison and Eugene McCann -- Representing and imagining the city / Regan Koch and Alan Latham -- The new middle class, lifestyle and the new gentrified city / Loretta Lees -- Being poor in the city / Geoff DeVerteuil -- Living with difference : reflections on geographies of encounter / Gill Valentine -- The everyday city of the senses / Mónica Degen -- Dis/order and the regulation of urban space / Steven Herbert and Tiffany Grobelski -- Walling the city / Gordon MacLeod -- Health and the city / Graham Moon and Robin Kearns -- Cities, nature and sustainability / Ian Cook and Eric Swyngedouw -- Just cities / James deFilippis and Juan Rivero -- The good city? / Ananya Roy -- Engaging the urban world / Eugene McCann and Ronan Paddison

Summary: What is the city? What is the nature of living in the city? This text provides an in-depth understanding of the central issues associated with the city and how living in a city impacts its inhabitants. Theoretically informed and thematically rich, the book contains an eminent, international cast of contributors and contributions. It provides a critical analysis of the key thinkers, themes and paradigms dealing with the relationship between the built environment and urban life. It includes illustrative case studies, questions for discussion, further reading and web links. Examining the contradictions, conflicts and complexities of city living, this book is an essential resource for students looking to get to grip with the different theoretical and substantive approaches that make up the diverse and rich study of the city and urban life.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB E-1	Non Fiction	307.76 CIT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008482

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Encountering the city : multiple perspectives on urban social change / Ronan Paddison and Eugene McCann --
Representing and imagining the city / Regan Koch and Alan Latham --
The new middle class, lifestyle and the new gentrified city / Loretta Lees --
Being poor in the city / Geoff DeVerteuil --
Living with difference : reflections on geographies of encounter / Gill Valentine --
The everyday city of the senses / Mónica Degen --
Dis/order and the regulation of urban space / Steven Herbert and Tiffany Grobelski --
Walling the city / Gordon MacLeod --
Health and the city / Graham Moon and Robin Kearns --
Cities, nature and sustainability / Ian Cook and Eric Swyngedouw --
Just cities / James deFilippis and Juan Rivero --
The good city? / Ananya Roy --
Engaging the urban world / Eugene McCann and Ronan Paddison

What is the city? What is the nature of living in the city? This text provides an in-depth understanding of the central issues associated with the city and how living in a city impacts its inhabitants. Theoretically informed and thematically rich, the book contains an eminent, international cast of contributors and contributions. It provides a critical analysis of the key thinkers, themes and paradigms dealing with the relationship between the built environment and urban life. It includes illustrative case studies, questions for discussion, further reading and web links. Examining the contradictions, conflicts and complexities of city living, this book is an essential resource for students looking to get to grip with the different theoretical and substantive approaches that make up the diverse and rich study of the city and urban life.

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