| Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice Contributor(s): Brown, Evrick (Editor), Shortell, Timothy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1439912211 ISBN-13: 9781439912218 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $34.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 307.76 |
| LCCN: 2015013668 |
| Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walking connects the rhythms of urban life to the configuration of urban spaces. As the contributors and editors show in Walking in Cities, walking also reflects the systematic inequalities that order contemporary urban life. Walking has different meanings because it can be a way of temporarily "taking possession" of urban space, or it can make the relatively powerless more vulnerable to crime. The essays in Walking in Cities explore how walking intersects with sociological dimensions such as gender, race and ethnicity, social class, and power. Various chapters explorethe fl neuse, or female urban drifter, in Tehran's shopping malls; Hispanic neighborhoods in New York, San Diego, and El Paso; and the intra-neighborhood and inter-class dynamics of gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.The essays in Walking in Cities provide important lessons about urban life. |