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Talja Blokland - Community as Urban Practice - 9781509504817 - V9781509504817
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Community as Urban Practice

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Description for Community as Urban Practice Hardback. Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Series: Urban Futures. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JH; JP; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150. .
Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.

Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social groups or neighbours. She draws attention to the non-durable, fluid encounters that constitute community, theorizing communities as shared urban practices in a globalizing world. The book proposes two core ways of thinking about community: the dimension ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Urban Futures
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509504817
SKU
V9781509504817
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Ref
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About Talja Blokland
Talja Blokland is Professor of Urban Sociology at the Humboldt University, Berlin

Reviews for Community as Urban Practice
"Everybody thinks they know what the concept of community means, but it proves increasingly elusive as you try to pin it down. Talja Blokland, one of the most perceptive observers of how we live together in cities, here offers a compelling interpretation that focuses on how we perform communities, especially by drawing their boundaries." —John Mollenkopf, Graduate Center, City University ... Read more

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