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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 fl neuse, 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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Walking in Cities
• Subtitle: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice
• Author: Timothy Shortell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 292
• EAN: 9781439912201
• ISBN: 9781439912201
• ID: 10780645
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2015

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