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Despite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban
policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct
focus on its urban dimensions. In this volume leading urban
researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy
and France explore the nature of social networks and the
significance of voluntary associations for contemporary urban life.
Networked Urbanism recognizes that there is currently a sense of
crisis in the cohesion of the city which has led to public attempts
to encourage networking and the fostering of 'social capital'.
However, the contributors collectively demonstrate how new kinds of
'networked urbanism' associated with ghettoization, suburbanization
and segregation have broken from the kind of textured urban
communities that existed in the past. This has generated new forms
of exclusionary social capital, which fail to significantly resolve
the problems of poor residents, whilst strengthening the position
of the advantaged. Grounded in theoretical reflection and empirical
research, Networked Urbanism will be of interest to scholars and
students of sociology, geography and urban studies, as well as to
policy makers.
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.
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.
Despite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban
policy makers and academics alike, there is currently little direct
focus on its urban dimensions. In this volume leading urban
researchers from the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy
and France explore the nature of social networks and the
significance of voluntary associations for contemporary urban life.
Networked Urbanism recognizes that there is currently a sense of
crisis in the cohesion of the city which has led to public attempts
to encourage networking and the fostering of 'social capital'.
However, the contributors collectively demonstrate how new kinds of
'networked urbanism' associated with ghettoization, suburbanization
and segregation have broken from the kind of textured urban
communities that existed in the past. This has generated new forms
of exclusionary social capital, which fail to significantly resolve
the problems of poor residents, whilst strengthening the position
of the advantaged. Grounded in theoretical reflection and empirical
research, Networked Urbanism will be of interest to scholars and
students of sociology, geography and urban studies, as well as to
policy makers.
What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban
experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous
inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an
increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book
explains: Relations between urban theory and modernity - the
foundational concept in urban studies - in key ideas of the Chicago
School, in spatial analysis, humanistic urban geography, and
'radical' approaches like Marxism Cities and the transition from
industrial to informational economies, globalization, the
importnace of urban growth machine and urban regime theory, the
city as an "actor" Spatial expressions of inequality - understood
horizontally and vertically - and key ideas like segregation,
ghettoization, suburbanization, gentrification, and "neighbourhood
effects" Socio-cultural spatial expressions of difference and key
concepts like gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, age, public
space; "culturalist" perspectives on identity, lifestyle,
subculture How cities should be understood as intersections of
horizontal and vertical - of coinciding resources, positions,
locations; of different constellations of race, class, gender,
ethnicity, sexuality, and age, influencing how we make and
understand urban experiences. Critical, interdisciplinary and
pedagogically informed - with opening summaries, boxes, questions
for discussion and guided further reading - Urban Theory: A
Critical Introduction to Power, Cities and Urbanism in the 21st
Century provides the tools for any student of the city to
understand, even to change, our own urban experiences.
What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban
experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous
inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an
increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book
explains: Relations between urban theory and modernity in key ideas
of the Chicago School, spatial analysis, humanistic urban
geography, and 'radical' approaches like Marxism Cities and the
transition to informational economies, globalization, urban growth
machine and urban regime theory, the city as an "actor" Spatial
expressions of inequality and key ideas like segregation,
ghettoization, suburbanization, gentrification Socio-cultural
spatial expressions of difference and key concepts like gender,
sexuality, race, ethnicity and "culturalist" perspectives on
identity, lifestyle, subculture How cities should be understood as
intersections of horizontal and vertical - of coinciding resources,
positions, locations, influencing how we make and understand urban
experiences. Critical, interdisciplinary and pedagogically informed
- with opening summaries, boxes, questions for discussion and
guided further reading - Urban Theory: A Critical Introduction to
Power, Cities and Urbanism in the 21st Century provides the tools
for any student of the city to understand, even to change, our own
urban experiences.
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