Hakutulokset: Sarja Cities and Society
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Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization
Decentralization is accepted as one of the defining features of the third wave of democratic transitions in Latin America and commonly understood as an index and an agent of …
Beyond the Resources of Poverty
This groundbreaking volume researches the lives of gecekondu settlers in the capital city of Turkey in order to understand how households cope with poverty and why some households …
Brands and the City
From commercial retail environments to branded urban villages, brands are now a salient feature of contemporary cityscapes and are deeply entwined in people’s everyday lives. …
Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice
What are the consequences of staying in or moving out of a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhood? In European urban sociology, research has mostly focused either on lower …
Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe
What can we learn about collective action across Central and Eastern Europe by focusing on activism within urban spaces? This volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban …
Contentious Politics and the Welfare State
This book outlines the history of squatting in Sweden and analyzes the conditions under which squatting has intensified and declined in the country between 1968 and 2017. With …
Creating the Unequal City
Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a particular way. We may therefore speak …
Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South
Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South draws on …
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process …
Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities
This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city …
Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes
Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss …
Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective
We know very little about variations in urban class and ethnic segregation among nations and even less about differences among cities in different regions of the world. Spatial …