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Wilhelmsburg is our home!
In a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to them. Based on rich interviews, …
City of Crisis
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the …
The Game of Urban Regeneration – Culture & Community in London 2012 and Berlin's Mediaspree
Who wins and who loses in urban regeneration? What are the mechanisms at play?Francesca Weber-Newth looks at two neighbourhoods that are adjacent to large-scale regeneration …
Enterprising Migrants in Berlin
How has "ethnic entrepreneurship" emerged and developed since the late eighties in Berlin? In his study, Baris Ülker answers this question by relying on the experiences of …
Brooklyn Tides – The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough
Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural capital, of global transportation, …
Squatting in Rio de Janeiro
The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key …
Urban Hacking
Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the …
Actors and Networks in the Megacity – A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter …
Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.
How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies …
Port Cities as Areas of Transition – Ethnographic Perspectives
In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built …
Landscapes of Music in Istanbul – A Cultural Politics of Place and Exclusion
Everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume analyzes landscapes of music, community, and …
Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention
Urban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through the police and individual target hardening remain inefficient, the …