Cities & social change : encounters with contemporary urbanism / edited by Ronan Paddison & Eugene McCann

Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-261) and index

Ronan Paddison and Eugene McCann -- Regan Koch and Alan Latham - Loretta Lees -- Geoff DeVerteuil -- Gill Valentine -- M©đnica Degen -- Steven Herbert and Tiffany Grobelski -- Gordon MacLeod -- Graham Moon and Robin Kearns -- Ian Cook and Eric Swyngedouw -- James deFilippis and Juan Rivero -- Ananya Roy -- Eugene McCann and Ronan Paddison. Encountering the city : multiple perspectives on urban social change / Representing and imagining the city / The new middle class, lifestyle and the new gentrified city / Being poor in the city / Living with difference : reflections on geographies of encounter / The everyday city of the senses / Dis/order and the regulation of urban space / Walling the city / Health and the city / Cities, nature and sustainability / Just cities / The good city? / Engaging the urban world /

What is the city? What is the nature of living in the city? This text provides an in-depth understanding of the central issues associated with the city and how living in a city impacts its inhabitants. Theoretically informed and thematically rich, the book contains an eminent, international cast of contributors and contributions. It provides a critical analysis of the key thinkers, themes and paradigms dealing with the relationship between the built environment and urban life. It includes illustrative case studies, questions for discussion, further reading and web links. Examining the contradictions, conflicts and complexities of city living, this book is an essential resource for students looking to get to grip with the different theoretical and substantive approaches that make up the diverse and rich study of the city and urban life