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Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality
In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have been eliminated to make way for luxury apartments and business interests. Low-income neighbourhoods are often stigmatized by dominant social forces to justify their demolition. The urban poor have however negotiated and resisted these developments in a range of ways. This text explores these urban dynamics in Mexico City and beyond, looking at the material and symbolic mechanisms through which urban marginality is produced and contested. It seeks to understand how things might be otherwise, how the city might be geared towards more inclusive forms of belonging and citizenship.
Shaking Up the City
"Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of abstract theory and concrete empirical evidence, Tom Slater strives to 'shake up' mainstream urban studies in a concise and pointed fashion, turning on its head much of the prevailing wisdom in the field. In doing so, he explores the themes of 'data-driven innovation', urban 'resilience', gentrification, displacement and rent control, 'neighborhood effects', territorial stigmatization, and ethnoracial segregation. Slater analyzes how the mechanisms behind urban inequalities, material deprivation, marginality, and social suffering in cities across the world are perpetuated and made invisible. With important contributions to ongoing debates in sociology, geography, planning, and public policy, and engaging closely with struggles for land rights and housing justice, Shaking Up The City offers numerous insights for scholarship and political action to guard against the spread of vested interest urbanism"--
Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment
Advancing conceptual understanding of how territorial stigmatisation and its components unfold materially as well as symbolically, this book presents a wide range of case studies from the Global South and Global North, including an examination of recent policy measures that have been applied to deal with the consequences of territorial stigmatis
Aushandlungen städtischer Größe
Wissenschaftlich wie gesellschaftlich hat das Thema Stadt anhaltend Konjunktur. Bei genauerem Blick sind es allerdings fast ausschließlich Großstädte bzw. Metropolen der nördlichen Hemisphäre, die im Fokus von Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik stehen und als paradigmatische Beispiele urbanen Lebens fungieren. Kleinere Städte kommen demgegenüber weniger und schon gar nicht als Beispiele für Urbanität in den Sinn. Der vorliegende Band korrigiert diese Schieflage und bietet als Ergebnis eines ethnographischen Forschungsprojektes umfassende Einblicke in Aushandlungen städtischer Größe – exemplarisch am Beispiel der Städte Hildesheim in Niedersachsen und Wels in Oberösterreich.
Interlude
Fiction is about people and all people have something in common. The theme of this work is the commonality of faith; or more precisely, everyone believes in something. But is any one believe the "truth?" Join the characters in their search for the truth- the very core of our existence. Witness the events that shape Earth's future as a result of the science of the past. Travel with the characters to the very start of one of the largest religious movements on Earth and discover the real reason for the diverse beliefs of the people of planet Earth. Interlude is the first book in this series devoted to pursuing the commonality that is foundational to all humanity.
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Jugend am Rande der Stadt
Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der „Jugend am Rande der Stadt“ wird in einem vielschichtigen Prozess hergestellt. In der vergleichenden Studie zu Deutschland und Frankreich untersucht die Autorin, wie unterschiedliche Akteurinnen und Akteure der Sozialen Arbeit, kommunalen Politik, Medien und auch Jugendliche selbst daran beteiligt sind. Am Beispiel von Köln und Lyon kommen die Spannungsfelder und Ambivalenzen in den Blick, in denen sie unter den Bedingungen städtischer Ungleichheit agieren und gleichzeitig Transformationsprozesse in Bewegung bringen. Die Autorin arbeitet einerseits räumliche Aneignungsprozesse und Strategien Jugendlicher gegen städtische Ausgrenzung und andererseits die Handlungsfelder und das Wissen der Akteurinnen und Akteure heraus.
Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment
Advancing conceptual understanding of how territorial stigmatisation and its components unfold materially as well as symbolically, this book presents a wide range of case studies from the Global South and Global North, including an examination of recent policy measures that have been applied to deal with the consequences of territorial stigmatis
Absorption and Theatricality
With this widely acclaimed work, Michael Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism are viewed and understood. Analyzing paintings produced between 1753 and 1781 and the comments of a number of critics who wrote about them, especially Dennis Diderot, Fried discovers a new emphasis in the art of the time, based not on subject matter or style but on values and effects.
I Am a Blade of Grass
This book presents an approach to learning that builds on trust and personal regard. It is based on the experiences of a second grade teacher and relates anecdotal experiences. Chapter I discusses beginning the transference of power, pre-planning for the school year, and creating an environment. Chapter II discusses building trust, focusing on making the learners ready to learn, getting to know them, listening, learning to make choices, and problem solving. Chapter III discusses sharing feelings and presents a day-by-day account of a week-long event that affected and inspired a whole class. Chapter IV discusses discovering interests and developing the theme. This chapter focuses on recognizi...
