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Creating the Unequal City - The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin (Paperback)
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Creating the Unequal City - The Exclusionary Consequences of Everyday Routines in Berlin (Paperback)
Series: Cities and Society
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Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have
meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and
interpreted in a particular way. We may therefore speak of cityness
rather than 'the city': the city is always in the making. It cannot
be grasped as a fixed structure in which people find their lives,
and is never stable, through agents designing courses of
interactions with geographical imaginations. This theoretical
perspective on cities is currently reshaping the field of urban
studies, requiring new forms of theory, comparisons and methods.
Meanwhile, mainstream urban studies approaches neighbourhoods as
fixed social-spatial units, producing effects on groups of
residents. Yet they have not convincingly shown empirically that
the neighbourhood is an entity generating effects, rather than
being the statistical aggregate where effects can be measured. This
book challenges this common understanding, and argues for an
approach that sees neighbourhood effects as the outcome of
processes of marginalisation and exclusion that find spatial
expressions in the city elsewhere. It does so through a comparative
study of an unusual kind: Sub-Saharan Africans, second generation
Turkish and Lebanese girls, and alcohol and drug consumers, some of
them homeless, arguably some of the most disadvantaged categories
in the German capital, Berlin, in inner city neighbourhoods, and
middle class families in owner-occupied housing. This book analyses
urban inequalities through the lens of the city in the making,
where neighbourhood comes to play a role, at some times, in some
practices, and at some moments, but is not the point of departure.
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