Walking in cities : quotidian mobility as urban theory, method, and practice / edited by Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Evrick, editor.

Shortell, Timothy, editor.

Series:

Urban life, landscape, and policy

Urban life, landscape and policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Cities and towns.

City and town life.

Walking.

Physical Description:

vi, 254 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"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 York, San Diego, and El Paso; and the intra-neighborhood and inter-class dynamics of gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.The essays in Walking in Cities provide important lessons about urban life"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Walking as Urban Practice and Research Method / Timothy Shortell Shortell, Timothy 1

Part I Race and Ethnicity

2 Walking in the Multicultural City: The Production of Suburban Street Life in Sydney / Rebecca Williamson Williamson, Rebecca 23

3 Race and the Politics of Space: Doing Walking Ethnography in Urban Chicago / Shanshan Lan Lan, Shanshan 43

4 Walking through Contemporary North American Barrios: Hispanic Neighborhoods in New York, San Diego, and El Paso / Ernesto Castañeda Castañeda, Ernesto, Kevin Beck Beck, Kevin, Josué Lachica Lachica, Josué 60

Part II Gender

5 The Emancipated Flâneuse in Tehran's Shopping Malls / Nazgol Bagheri Bagheri, Nazgol 83

6 The Doughnut Hole Experience: Using a Discerning Eye while Walking in Cities / Marlese Durr Durr, Marlese 100

Part III Social Class

7 "Just Going Down the Street": Constructing Community through Everyday Movements / Michelle Hall Hall, Michelle 121

8 Encountering the "Old and New" Kids on the Block: Walking in the Neighborhood / Judith N. DeSena DeSena, Judith N. 137

9 From Shipping to Shopping: Providence's Capital Center, Nervous Landscapes, and a Phenomenological Analysis of Walkability / Kristen A. Williams Williams, Kristen A. 153

Part IV Politics and Power

10 Geography, Planning, and Performing Mobility in new Orleans / Amber N. Wiley Wiley, Amber N. 177

11 Mobility Method and the Ethnic Community: Walking and Community Activism / Evrick Brown Brown, Evrick 197

12 Walking as a Mobile Practice: Landscape and Public Protests in Washington, D.C. / Paul R. Watts Watts, Paul R. 213

13 Walking, Social Movements, and Arts Activities in the United States, Canada, and France / Brian B. Knudsen Knudsen, Brian B., Terry Nichols Clark Clark, Terry Nichols, Daniel Silver Silver, Daniel 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781439912201

1439912203

9781439912218

1439912211

OCLC:

905524674