"Locally Played reveals a growing role for urban games to strengthen community and build local ties. A series of games are analyzed in successive chapters. Each game deepens a local connection including to neighbors, local businesses, and a group identity. The book ties game stu…
"Focusing on the working-class experience of gentrification, this book re-examines the enduring relationship between class and the urban. Class is so clearly articulated in the urban, from the housing crisis to the London Riots to the evocation of housing estates as the emblem o…
This book reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification which historicises class formation, critiques policy processes and offers a new sociological insight into gentrification from the perspective of wo…
"The Other Kingdom is about reframing how society views its communal identity. The book proposes to identify what has been considered sacred language and use it as an opening into the experience of community and the commons. It lays out a faith narrative without the negative tra…
This text introduces the dramatically different urban experiences in social and spatial segregation patterns and rationales which exist among the world's regions. It also demonstrates that urban theory needs to draw systematically upon this wide range of experiences.
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1: Globalization, Scale, and the Political Economy of Ethnically Plural "World Cities"--1 Adding Human Diversity to Urban Political Economy Analysis -- 2 Citizenship and Livelihood Struggles…
Main description: Oikos und Polis stellen einen zentralen Gegenstand der althistorischen Forschung dar. Eine Vielzahl von Arbeiten hat sich mit der Entstehung der Polis als politischem Verband auseinandergesetzt und dabei den Weg vom Oikos als dominierender sozialer Einheit in a…
