Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice
Evrick Brown
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Description for Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice
Hardback. Editor(s): Brown, Evrick; Shortell, Timothy. Series: Urban Life, Landscape and Policy. Num Pages: 292 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 476.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Series
Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781439912201
SKU
V9781439912201
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99-50
About Evrick Brown
Evrick Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Human Services at Kingsborough Community College and co-editor (with Timothy Shortell) of Walking in the European City. Timothy Shortell is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, of the City University of New York and co-editor (with Judith N. DeSena) of The World in Brooklyn and (with Evrick Brown) of ... Read more
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