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Footwork is a book about walking in the city and the politics of urban public space. It considers the mobility practices of the urban homeless and those street-level support services that move through the city in search and support of them. Tom Hall provides an ethnographic account that includes others that make it their business, or have no choice but, to walk the city streets - sex workers, street cleaners, outreach teams and more. The book examines the ways in which the paths of movement traced by these marginal urban walkers intersect in urban areas, crossing tracks with dominant and prevailing pedestrian flows of retail and tourism. Tom Hall brings five years' fieldwork research to bear on questions of the 'public realm', blending urban ethnography and social theory with a mobile approach to understanding city spaces and how people use them.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Social welfare & social services

• Full title: Footwork
• Subtitle: Urban Patrol and the Modern City
• Author: Tom Hall
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780745330570
• ISBN: 0745330576
• ID: 09367673
• Publisher: PLUTO PRESS
• Weight: 344 g
• Dimensions: 136 × 215 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. December 2016

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