Space, the city and social theory : social relations and urban forms / Fran Tonkiss.

Main entry:

Tonkiss, Fran. author.

Title & Author:

Space, the city and social theory : social relations and urban forms / Fran Tonkiss.

Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.
©2005

Description:

vi, 170 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Community and solitude : social relations in the city -- 2. Spaces of difference and division -- 3. The politics of space : social movements and public space -- 4. Capital and culture : gentrifying the city -- 5. Embodied spaces : gender, sexuality and the city -- 6. Spatial stories : subjectivity in the city -- 7. Making space : urban cultures, spatial tactics.

Summary:

"Space, the City and Social Theory offers a clear and critical account of key approaches to cities and urban space within social theory and analysis. It explores the relation of the social and the spatial in the context of critical urban themes: community and anonymity; social difference and spatial divisions; politics and public space; gentrification and urban renewal; gender and sexuality; subjectivity and space; experience and everyday practice in the city."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0745628257 (cased)
9780745628257 (cased)
0745628265 (paperback)
9780745628264 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Space (Architecture)
Cities
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
Espace (Architecture)
cities.
urban sociology.
Stadtsoziologie
Theoriebildung
Stadssociologi.
Städer.
Rummet (arkitektur)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 244442
Call No.: BIB 174122
Status: Available

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