Urban Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Lives write by Martin Dribe. This book was released on 2024. Urban Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the lens of a Swedish industrial city, Landskrona, Urban Lives looks at economic and demographic change at the micro level to understand the societal transformations that profoundly changed people's lives during the twentieth century. Based an original data infrastructure, the book follows individuals across generations and situates them in their social, institutional, and environmental contexts. Chapter authors provide novel insights into the micro-level foundations of long term economic-demographic processes, and cover important research questions related to health, family, migration, and residential segregation.
Urban Ills
Urban Ills - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Ills write by Carol Camp Yeakey. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Urban Ills available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in GlobalContexts brings together original research by a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars to examine contemporary dilemmas impacting urban life in global contexts, following the latest global economic downturn. Focusing extensively on vulnerable populations, economic, social, health and community dynamics are explored as they relate to human adaptation to complex environments.
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces write by William Hollingsworth Whyte. This book was released on 2001. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.
Post-Industrial Precarity: New Ethnographies of Urban Lives in Uncertain Times
Post-Industrial Precarity: New Ethnographies of Urban Lives in Uncertain Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Industrial Precarity: New Ethnographies of Urban Lives in Uncertain Times write by Gillian Evans. This book was released on 2020-01-15. Post-Industrial Precarity: New Ethnographies of Urban Lives in Uncertain Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The United Nations predicts that by the year 2050 almost 70% of the planet’s population will be living in cities. The onus on social scientists is to explain the contemporary challenges posed by the urbanization of the world. A growing body of literature raises the alarm about the precarity of human existence in the uncertain conditions of rapidly transforming contemporary cities. This volume brings together a diverse collection of new ethnographies of precarious lives in various cities of the world. The specific focus on post-industrial cities in the UK allows for a wider consideration of the urban conditions and the political and economic climates which combine to produce extremely precarious living conditions for urban populations elsewhere in the world.The productive consequence of the comparisons and contrasts of various urban contexts, made possible by the volume, is an analytical focus on what it means for humans to live and occupy different subject positions under the advancing conditions of contemporary global capitalism. The volume’s chapters are also united by the shared commitment of early career social science scholars to ethnography as a research method. This gives a common methodological focus to diverse topics of substantive concern located in various cities of the world from Manchester, Newcastle and Salford in the north of England, to Detroit in the USA, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Turin in Italy and Beirut in Lebanon. Ethnography, relying as it does on long-term participant observation and in-depth open-ended interviewing, is uniquely valuable as a resource for bringing to life the unpredictable ways in which humans survive and develop forms of resilience among, for example, the ruins of dying cities. Ethnography also enables social scientists to understand and add depth to the surprising stories and apparent contradictions of everyday protest in the face of the increasing privatization of the public good and extreme inequalities of wealth. Ethnographically grounded analyses of urban life are therefore uniquely positioned to explain and critically analyse the new politics of popular resistance as the people who feel ‘left behind’ by society, or expelled from what might be described as the ‘exclusification’ of urban environments, push back against an economy and politics that appears to exist only for the private benefit of an indifferent elite population.
Urban People and Places
Urban People and Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban People and Places write by Daniel Joseph Monti. This book was released on 2014-02-10. Urban People and Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Providing a thorough and comprehensive survey of the contemporary urban world that is accessible to students, Urban People and Places: The Sociology of Cities, Suburbs, and Towns will give balanced treatment to both the process by which cities are built (i.e., urbanization) and the ways of life practiced by people that live and work in more urban places (i.e., urbanism) unlike most core texts in this area. Whereas most texts focus on the socio-economic causes of urbanization, this text analyses the cultural component: how the physical construction of places is, in part, a product of cultural beliefs, ideas, and practices and also how the culture of those who live, work, and play in various places is shaped, structured, and controlled by the built environment. Inasmuch as the primary focus will be on the United States, global discussion is composed with an eye toward showing how U.S. cities, suburbs, and towns are different and alike from their counterparts in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America
