Inequality and Uncertainty: Current Challenges for Cities

Book Overview

Chapter 1 Cities as the strategic terrain of research on contemporary inequalities and uncertainty.- Part I Urban inequalities and uncertainty as conceptual challenges.- Chapter 2 Social and Spatial Uncertainty and Inequality - The Refiguration of Spaces as Today's Challenge for Cities.- Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism vs identity and local belonging?.- Chapter 4 The Digital Natives and the Future City: Contradictions and Ambivalences.- Part II Revisiting social change and gentrification.- Chapter 5 Fear, Disgust and Dignity: The securitisation of everyday life and the new revanchism against the urban subaltern in a working-class area of Madrid.- Chapter 6 Protest and taste: socio-spatial restructuring of Moda.- Chapter 7 Urban inequalities and egalitarian scenes: relationality in urban placemaking and identity-building and paradox of egalitarianism.- Chapter 8 Outcomes of Urban Requalification under Neoliberalism: A critical appraisal of the SRU model.- Part III Urban diversity and boundaries.- Chapter 9 Feeling safe, defining crime and urban youth in Berlin's inner city: An exploration of the construction of 'unsafety' and 'youth' as symbolic violence.- Chapter 10 Trust thy neighbour? Interpersonal trust in twelve ethnically diverse European neighbourhoods.- Chapter 11 Refugees and Borders: Simmel's contributions on space and strangeness to reflect on the condition of contemporary refugees in Europe.- Chapter 12 The use of factor analysis in urban research: the case of the metropolitan area of Bilbao.- Part IV Answers for urban inequalities.- Chapter 13 From "chabolas" to invisible squats: a reflection on the residential informality evolution in Madrid.- Chapter 14 Urban scenes, cultural context exposure and contemporary health lifestyles: A multilevel analysis of Spanish sub-municipal areas.- Part V Environmental turn in urban politics.- Chapter 15 Urban Climate Governance in the Amazon.- Chapter 16 Greening the urban politics: the conflicts over tree felling in Warsaw.

Part 5: Environmental turn in urban politics 13. Fronika de Wit, Urban Climate Governance in the Amazon14. Renata Putkowska-Smoter, Greening the urban politics: the conflicts over tree felling in Warsaw

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9813291648
• ISBN13: 9789813291645
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"