Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life
Editors: Ferro, L., Smagacz-Poziemska, M., Gómez, M.V., Kurtenbach, S., Pereira, P., Villalón, J.J. (Eds.)
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life
Pages 1-9
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The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier
Pages 11-28
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On Roots and Routes
Pages 29-42
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Daily Mobility and Urban Sprawl
Pages 43-60
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Empty Space: Historical Memory in the Contemporary City
Pages 61-75
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life
- Editors
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- Lígia Ferro
- Marta Smagacz-Poziemska
- M. Victoria Gómez
- Sebastian Kurtenbach
- Patrícia Pereira
- Juan José Villalón
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-18462-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-18462-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-18461-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 226
- Number of Illustrations
- 18 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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