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Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life

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Editors:
  1. Lígia Ferro

    1. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Porto, Portugal

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  2. Marta Smagacz-Poziemska

    1. Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Institute of Sociology, Krakow, Poland

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  3. M. Victoria Gómez

    1. Madrid, Spain

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  4. Sebastian Kurtenbach

    1. IIGK, Univ Bielefeld IIGK, Bielefeld, Germany

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  5. Patrícia Pereira

    1. Lisboa, Portugal

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  6. Juan José Villalón

    1. Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociolo , Madrid, Spain

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  • Re-urbanization and the raise of cities in Europe - challenges and opportunities

  • New tendencies in urban sociology

  • International view on an international topic

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life

    • Lígia Ferro, Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Patrícia Pereira, Juan José Villalón
    Pages 1-9

  3. The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier

    • Saskia Sassen
    Pages 11-28

  4. On Roots and Routes

    • Talja Blokland
    Pages 29-42

  5. Daily Mobility and Urban Sprawl

    • Joan J. Pujadas, Gaspar Maza
    Pages 43-60

  6. Empty Space: Historical Memory in the Contemporary City

    • Ray Hutchison
    Pages 61-75

  7. The 2014 World Cup on the Streets of Vila Madalena (São Paulo)

    • Heitor Frúgoli Jr.
    Pages 77-95

  8. Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity

    • Maxime Felder, Loïc Pignolo
    Pages 97-114

  9. Measuring Deprivation in the City of Barcelona

    • Riccardo Valente
    Pages 115-131

  10. Analysing Pilsen Mexican Neighbourhood in Chicago through the lens of competitiveness and social cohesion

    • Nunzia Borrelli, Kathleen M. Adams
    Pages 133-151

  11. Perceived social disorder in post-WWII housing estates: recent evidence from Finland

    • Teemu Kemppainen
    Pages 153-168

  12. New Means of Behaviour and Space Appropriation in the Post-Privatisation Era

    • Sonja Lakić
    Pages 169-187

  13. Urban Gardening between Agency and Structure

    • Jennifer Morstein
    Pages 189-203

  14. The Pop Up City in a Time of Crisis

    • Eve Avdoulos
    Pages 205-223

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 225-226
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About this book

The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility. The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism, community, neighbourhood life, uses of public spaces and methodological approaches to urban life such as ethnography.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Porto, Portugal

    Lígia Ferro

  • Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Institute of Sociology, Krakow, Poland

    Marta Smagacz-Poziemska

  • Madrid, Spain

    M. Victoria Gómez

  • IIGK, Univ Bielefeld IIGK, Bielefeld, Germany

    Sebastian Kurtenbach

  • Lisboa, Portugal

    Patrícia Pereira

  • Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociolo , Madrid, Spain

    Juan José Villalón

About the editors

Lígia Ferro is assistant professor at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto. She is also a researcher at the Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto and at the CIES-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.

Marta Smagacz-Poziemska works at the Instytut Socjologii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Krakow, Poland.

M. Victoria Gómez is senior lecturer at the Departamento de Análisis Social, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

Sebastian Kurtenbach, Dr, is researcher at the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG), Bielefeld University, Germany.

Patrícia Pereira is post-doctoral researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, CICS.NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Juan José Villalón is senior lecturer of sociology at the Departmento de Sociología III (Tendencias Sociales), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life

  • Editors: Lígia Ferro, Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Patrícia Pereira, Juan José Villalón

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-18462-9

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-18461-2Published: 15 August 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-18462-9Published: 03 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 226

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography, Social Structure, Social Inequality

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