Cities and Society
About the Book Series
Cities and Society is a series disseminating high quality new research and scholarship which contribute to a sociological understanding of the city. The series promotes scholarly engagement with contemporary issues such as urban access to public and private services; urban governance; urban conflict and protest; residential segregation and its effects; urban infrastructure; privacy, sociability and lifestyles; the city and space; and the sustainable city.
Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class
1st Edition
By Lars Meier
January 09, 2023
Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences, nostalgic memories, hauntings from...
Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities: The Rhythm of Chaos
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Agbiboa
January 14, 2020
This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport (also referred to as paratransit) to the production of city forms and urban economies, as well as the voices, experiences, and survival tactics of its poor and stigmatised workforce...
Brands and the City: Entanglements and Implications for Urban Life
1st Edition
By Sonia Bookman
April 15, 2019
From commercial retail environments to branded urban villages, brands are now a salient feature of contemporary cityscapes and are deeply entwined in people’s everyday lives. Drawing on extensive empirical material and recent theoretical developments in the sociology of brands, this book explores ...
Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City: On Displacement, Ethnic Privileging and the Right to Stay Put
1st Edition
By Tone Huse
April 27, 2018
Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification from below, exploring the effects of this process upon city neighbourhoods and those that inhabit them, whether residents, business owners and their customers, or local ...
Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South: Poverty, Segregation and Social Networks in São Paulo
1st Edition
By Eduardo Cesar Leão Marques
May 25, 2017
Contending that everyday sociability and social networks are central elements to an understanding of urban poverty, Opportunities and Deprivation in the Urban South draws on detailed research conducted in São Paulo in an examination of the social networks of individuals who identify as poor. The ...
Beyond the Resources of Poverty: Gecekondu Living in the Turkish Capital
1st Edition
By Sebnem Eroglu
November 22, 2016
This groundbreaking volume researches the lives of gecekondu settlers in the capital city of Turkey in order to understand how households cope with poverty and why some households are more successful than others in reducing their deprivation. It takes a critical stance towards existing conceptions ...
Boosting Competitiveness Through Decentralization: Subnational Comparison of Local Development in Mexico
1st Edition
By Aylin Topal
November 17, 2016
Decentralization is accepted as one of the defining features of the third wave of democratic transitions in Latin America and commonly understood as an index and an agent of democratization. This rather optimistic perspective is inherent in the literature which is dominated by two theories. The ...
Residential Segregation in Comparative Perspective: Making Sense of Contextual Diversity
1st Edition
By Kuniko Fujita, Thomas Maloutas
November 17, 2016
We know very little about variations in urban class and ethnic segregation among nations and even less about differences among cities in different regions of the world. Spatial organization (places and neighbourhoods) matters significantly in some cities in reproducing class relations and ...