Moving Cities – Contested Views on Urban Life

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VI

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2. Moving Cities: Contested Views on Urban Life

   • Lígia Ferro, Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Patrícia Pereira, Juan José Villalón

   Pages 1-9

3. The Global City: Strategic Site, New Frontier

   • Saskia Sassen

   Pages 11-28

4. On Roots and Routes

   • Talja Blokland

   Pages 29-42

5. Daily Mobility and Urban Sprawl

   • Joan J. Pujadas, Gaspar Maza

   Pages 43-60

6. Empty Space: Historical Memory in the Contemporary City

   • Ray Hutchison

   Pages 61-75

7. The 2014 World Cup on the Streets of Vila Madalena (São Paulo)

   • Heitor Frúgoli Jr.

   Pages 77-95

8. Shops as the bricks and mortar of place identity

   • Maxime Felder, Loïc Pignolo

   Pages 97-114

9. Measuring Deprivation in the City of Barcelona

   • Riccardo Valente

   Pages 115-131

10. Analysing Pilsen Mexican Neighbourhood in Chicago through the lens of competitiveness and social cohesion

    • Nunzia Borrelli, Kathleen M. Adams

    Pages 133-151

11. Perceived social disorder in post-WWII housing estates: recent evidence from Finland

    • Teemu Kemppainen

    Pages 153-168

12. New Means of Behaviour and Space Appropriation in the Post-Privatisation Era

    • Sonja Lakić

    Pages 169-187

13. Urban Gardening between Agency and Structure

    • Jennifer Morstein

    Pages 189-203

14. The Pop Up City in a Time of Crisis

    • Eve Avdoulos

    Pages 205-223

15. Back Matter

    Pages 225-226

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The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility. The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism, community, neighbourhood life, uses of public spaces and methodological approaches to urban life such as ethnography.

• Urban Life
• Urban Development
• Migration
• Urban Sociology
• Mega Cities
• Social injustice
• Social movements

• Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Porto, Portugal

  Lígia Ferro

• Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University Institute of Sociology, Krakow, Poland

  Marta Smagacz-Poziemska

• Madrid, Spain

  M. Victoria Gómez

• IIGK, Univ Bielefeld IIGK, Bielefeld, Germany

  Sebastian Kurtenbach

• Lisboa, Portugal

  Patrícia Pereira

• Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociolo , Madrid, Spain

  Juan José Villalón

Lígia Ferro is assistant professor at the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto. She is also a researcher at the Instituto de Sociologia, Universidade do Porto and at the CIES-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal.

Marta Smagacz-Poziemska works at the Instytut Socjologii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński in Krakow, Poland.

M. Victoria Gómez is senior lecturer at the Departamento de Análisis Social, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

Sebastian Kurtenbach, Dr, is researcher at the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (IKG), Bielefeld University, Germany.

Patrícia Pereira is post-doctoral researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, CICS.NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Juan José Villalón is senior lecturer of sociology at the Departmento de Sociología III (Tendencias Sociales), Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, UNED, Spain.

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