Everyday Life in the Segmented City (Research in Urban Sociology)

Research_in (1)......Page 1
Research in urban sociology......Page 2
Everyday_Life (1)......Page 3
Preface......Page 4
Everyday life in the segmented city: An introduction......Page 6
References......Page 13
List of contributors......Page 14
What would a ’DiverCity’ be likequest Speculation on difference-sensitive planning and living practices......Page 16
Introduction......Page 17
From segmented city to DiverCity......Page 19
Living practices and interactions......Page 21
Handling Multiple Knowledges......Page 22
Useable Creativity......Page 24
Spirituality in Planning......Page 25
Design that Enables Diversity......Page 26
Images......Page 28
Perspectives......Page 31
Final remarks......Page 35
Notes......Page 37
References......Page 38
From urban sprawl to sustainable cities: a neighborhood perspective in urban studies......Page 41
Collective efficacy and neighborhood: the studies of Robert Sampson......Page 45
An ’urban neighborhood pathway’ to sustainable city?......Page 50
References......Page 52
The productive gaze. Florence as archetype of the cinematic city......Page 55
Introduction......Page 56
Image-space dialectics......Page 57
Assessing the cinematic urban form1......Page 59
An archetype of the cinematic city......Page 62
The gaze of the other......Page 63
A global space of representation......Page 65
Tracing the visitor’s eye......Page 68
Space of exposure......Page 70
Controlling the image of the city......Page 73
Conclusion......Page 74
Notes......Page 76
References......Page 77
The politics of space in an ethno-nationally contested city: Strategies and everyday practices......Page 79
Introduction......Page 80
Background: The politics of urban space......Page 81
Urban space in an ethno-nationally contested city......Page 83
Coexistence in the mixed city......Page 85
Urban space in a mixed city......Page 87
Negotiating the urban space......Page 90
Strategies and everyday practices......Page 96
Conclusion......Page 100
Notes......Page 102
References......Page 104
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This is what radical democracy looks likeexcl Reclaiming urban space in Vienna......Page 109
Introduction......Page 110
The right to the protest city: reclaiming and producing counter-hegemonic urban space......Page 111
Radical democratic perspectives on political counter publics......Page 113
Towards integrated perspectives on urban protest: theorising intersections of the material and the symbolic......Page 116
This is what radical democracy looks likeexcl autonomous urban protest in vienna......Page 119
Transforming urban protest: from fordism to neo-liberalism......Page 121
Co-option as an option......Page 122
Resisting neo-liberal city-face-lifting......Page 123
Transnational protest politics and the right to the protest city......Page 125
Concluding remarks......Page 128
Acknowledgements......Page 130
References......Page 131
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The segmented quotidian made visible: Jean Vigo’s A Propos de Nice......Page 134
The real nice versus Vigo’s reel nice......Page 136
Aristocratic and bourgeois nice......Page 140
Vieux nice and carnival......Page 145
Toward destruction and the ecstatic......Page 149
Conclusion......Page 152
References......Page 154
Segmented cities with fuzzy walls: changes in informal settlements as seen through a multiscale analysis......Page 155
Introduction......Page 156
From segregated to segmented cities: changes in urban structure models......Page 157
From rigid to fuzzy walls: changes in the intervention models for informal settlements......Page 163
From rigid to fuzzy walls: limits of informal settlements’ cartographic representations......Page 166
Increasing scales, removing the walls......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 177
References......Page 178
Global phenomenon - local effect: the question of place identity in view of the globalization and commercialization of urban space......Page 180
Introduction......Page 181
Place identity: the model assumed in the study......Page 182
Global phenomena - local effects......Page 184
Existential space versus the strip of flows: Gliwice case study......Page 187
Who are wequest The question about the identity of place......Page 192
New challenge......Page 194
Comprehensive environmental education: an attempt at searching the tool......Page 196
Local activities: examples......Page 201
Conclusion......Page 203
References......Page 205
A heritage claim to public space: examples from a mixed neighbourhood in Drammen, Norway......Page 206
Introduction......Page 207
Urban Renewal, Heritage and Opportunity Space......Page 209
Public Space and Urban Social Life......Page 211
Planning to Ensure Multi-Functional and Multicultural Dimensions......Page 212
Observations and Photo Documentation......Page 213
Interviews......Page 214
The Schoolchildren Project: Photo and Storytelling......Page 215
As Found: A Patchwork Structure......Page 216
The Main Themes Accentuated in the Plans for Str½ms½......Page 217
Observations......Page 219
Interviews......Page 220
Schoolchildren’s Visual Voices......Page 222
Discussion......Page 226
Conclusion......Page 230
References......Page 231
Sensitive urban renewal or gentrificationquest The case of the karmeliterviertel in Vienna......Page 233
Cities and gentrification......Page 234
Patterns of segregation......Page 237
The concept of ’soft urban renewal’......Page 238
Methodology......Page 241
Description of the Research Area......Page 242
Soft Urban Renewal or Gentrificationquest......Page 243
Conclusion......Page 247
References......Page 248
Users’ Perception and Representative Image of the ’Navigli’ Area in Milan......Page 250
Introduction......Page 251
Space consumption and identity of a place......Page 252
The case study: the Navigli area......Page 258
Methodology......Page 259
User Sample Composition......Page 261
Findings......Page 262
Conclusions......Page 267
References......Page 268
Youth policies, social sanitation, and contested suburban nightscapes......Page 270
Introduction......Page 271
Youth policies as social and moral control......Page 273
Consuming suburban nightscapes, (re)producing alterity......Page 278
Conclusions......Page 285
Notes......Page 286
References......Page 287
Social change and social capital in an english suburban council estate: the whitley estate, reading, in south east england......Page 291
The demise of sociological interest in working-class suburban housing estates......Page 292
Historical background......Page 296
The growth of the whitley estate......Page 297
The whitley estate as a suburban problem......Page 300
The 1980 housing act: rethinking social polarisation and social capital......Page 303
Associative action in defence of council housing in reading......Page 306
Sport and social organisation......Page 309
Environmental campaigning......Page 311
Conclusion......Page 312
References......Page 313
Active citizenship in Italian cohousing: a preliminary reflection......Page 315
The American pragmatic model......Page 319
Civic commitment within the third wave of cohousing......Page 321
The cohousing concept: Diffusion and ambiguous treatment in Italy......Page 323
Bottom-up initiatives critical aspects and main issues concerning the cohousing model in the Italian context......Page 326
A preliminary analysis of a case study: The Solidaria cohousing association in the Ferrara context......Page 331
Conclusions......Page 336
Notes......Page 337
References......Page 338