Walking in cities : quotidian mobility as urban theory, method, and practice / edited by Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell.
"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 "ta...
Uniform Title: | Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2016.
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Series: | Urban life, landscape, and policy.
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Physical Description: | vi, 254 pages ; 24 cm. |
Format: | Book |
Summary: |
"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 flâneuse, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Call Number: | HT151 .W298 2016 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781439912201 1439912203 9781439912218 1439912211 |