Walking in cities : quotidian mobility as urban theory, method, and practice

Brown, Evrick, (editor.). Shortell, Timothy, (editor.).

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"--

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ISBN: 9781439912218
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Physical Description: print
vi, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Introduction : Walking as urban practice and research method / Timothy Shortell -- Walking in the multicultural city : the production of suburban street life in Sydney / Rebecca Williamson -- Race and the politics of space : doing walking etnography in urban chicago / Shanshan Lan -- Walking through contemporary North American barrios : hispanic neighborhoods in New york, San Diego, and El Paso / Ernesto Castaneda, Kevin Beck, and Josú e Lachica -- The emancipated Flaneuse in Tehran's shopping malls / Nazgol Bagheri -- The doughnut hole experience : using a discerning eye while walking in cities / Marlese Durr-- "Just Going Down the Street" : constructing community through everyday movements / Michelle Hall -- Encountering the "Old and New" Kids on the Block : walking in the neighborhood / Judith N. DeSena -- From shipping to shopping : Providence's capital center, nervous landscapes, and a phenomenological analysis of walkability / Kristen A. Williams --Geography, planning, and performing mobility in New Orleans / Amer N. Wiley -- Mobility method and the ethnic communty : walking and community activism / Evrick Brown -- Walking as a mobile practice : landscape and public protests in Washington D.C. / Paul R. Watts -- Walking, social movements, and arts activities in the United States, Canada, and France / Brian B. Knudsen, Terry Nichols Clark, and Daniel Silver