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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This
book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people
in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws upon novel
qualitative longitudinal research which recorded the experiences of
a diverse group of people aged 50+ in Greater Manchester over a
12-month period during the pandemic. The book analyses their lived
experiences and those of organisations working to support them,
shedding light on the isolating effects of social distancing.
Covering 21 organisations, as well as 102 people from four
ethnic/identity groups, the authors argue that the pandemic
exacerbated existing inequalities in the UK, disproportionately
affecting low-income neighbourhoods and Black, Asian and minority
ethnic (BAME) communities. The book outlines recommendations in
relation to developing a ‘community-centred approach’ in
responding to future variants of COVID-19, as well as making
suggestions for how to create post-pandemic neighbourhoods.
Examining the relationships between architecture, home and
community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home
and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling
potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial,
relational and temporal phenomena. Based on the AHRC funded project
"Place and Belonging", the chapters draw on innovative spatial
layouts amid Scottish policymakers' concerns of social change in
the 1960s, to develop theoretical understandings between
architecture, home, and community. By approaching the discourse on
home, and by positioning the home at the confluence of a network of
sociocultural identities bound by spatial awareness and design, the
writers draw on sociological interpretations of cultural
negotiation as well as theoretical underpinnings in architectural
design. In so doing, they suggest a reinterpretation of the
facilitating role of architecture as sensitive to physical and
socio-cultural reconstruction. Drawn from interviews with
residents, architectural surveys, contextual mapping and other
visual methods, Home and Community explores home as a construct
that is enmeshed with the architectural affordances that the
housing scheme represents, that is useful to both architecture and
sociology students, as well as practitioners and urban planners.
Examining the relationships between architecture, home and
community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home
and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling
potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial,
relational and temporal phenomena. Based on the AHRC funded project
"Place and Belonging", the chapters draw on innovative spatial
layouts amid Scottish policymakers' concerns of social change in
the 1960s, to develop theoretical understandings between
architecture, home, and community. By approaching the discourse on
home, and by positioning the home at the confluence of a network of
sociocultural identities bound by spatial awareness and design, the
writers draw on sociological interpretations of cultural
negotiation as well as theoretical underpinnings in architectural
design. In so doing, they suggest a reinterpretation of the
facilitating role of architecture as sensitive to physical and
socio-cultural reconstruction. Drawn from interviews with
residents, architectural surveys, contextual mapping and other
visual methods, Home and Community explores home as a construct
that is enmeshed with the architectural affordances that the
housing scheme represents, that is useful to both architecture and
sociology students, as well as practitioners and urban planners.
This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England
demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of
ethnographic vantage points, including the city's football clubs,
the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city's annual
civic parade. These perspectives help trace the multiple dynamics
of a vibrant and rapidly changing post-industrial city, showing how
people's decisions and actions co-produce the city and give it
shape. Using the metaphor of the kaleidoscope, with each turn of
the wheel, another aspect of the city is materialised. In doing so,
the contributors complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's
renaissance as driven by the city administration's entrepreneurial
ethos. By taking up civic space and resources with council-led
cultural representations focused largely on generating financial
income for the city, three decades of command-and-control politics
has inhibited grassroots and spontaneous forms of emergent publics.
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What is a city? How does it come into being? Who are the people
involved? How are decisions made and what happens next? Realising
the city provides multiple insider perspectives on this northern
English city. Drawing on extensive fieldwork into the city's
football clubs, annual civic parade and Gay Village, airport and
infrastructure, parks and housing estates, these ethnographic
accounts trace the multiple dynamics of a vibrant and rapidly
changing post-industrial city. This book provides essential reading
for researchers interested in contemporary urban dynamics. Its
accessible style and material will also interest community
activists, city administrators, political analysts and elected
officials. The book is suitable for undergraduate reading lists for
courses teaching ethnographic methods and on urban studies courses
within sociology, anthropology, geography and the built
environment. -- .
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