Walking in cities : quotidian mobility as urban theory, method, and practice /

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"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 temporaril...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Brown, Evrick (Editor ), Shortell, Timothy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.
Colección:Urban life, landscape, and policy.
Temas:
Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Walking.
Cities
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes.
Vie urbaine.
urban sociology.
cities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: walking as urban practice and research method / Timothy Shortell
  • PART I: Race and ethnicity
  • Walking in the multicultural city: the production of suburban street life in Sydney / Rebecca Williamson
  • Race and the politics of space: doing walking ethnography in urban Chicago / Shanshan Lan
  • Walking through contemporary North American barrios: Hispanic neighborhoods in New York, San Diego, and El Paso / Ernesto Castañeda, Kevin Beck and Josué Lachica
  • PART II: Gender
  • The emancipated Flâneuse in Tehran's Shopping Malls / Nazgol Bagheri
  • The doughnut hole experience: using a discerning eye while walking in cities / Marlese Durr
  • PART III: Social class
  • "Just going down the street": constructing community through everyday movements / Michelle Hall
  • Encountering the "old and new" kids on the block: walking in the neighborhood / Judith N. DeSena
  • From shipping to shopping: Providence's capital center, nervous landscapes, and a phenomenological analysis of walkability / Kristen A. Williams
  • PART IV: Politics and power
  • Geography, planning, and performing mobility in New Orleans / Amber N. Wiley
  • Mobility method and the ethnic community: walking and community activism / Evrick Brown
  • Walking as a mobile practice: landscape and public protests in Washington, D.C. / Paul R. Watts
  • Walking, social movements, and arts activities in the United States, Canada, and France / Brian B. Knudsen, Terry Nichols Clark, and Daniel Silver.

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