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

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Tonkiss, Fran

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.Description: vi, 170 p. : ill., ; 23 cmISBN:

9780745628264 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

307.76 TON 22 00 3162

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Table of contents

Contents:

1. Community and solitude: social relations in the city 2. Space 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	307.76 TON 003162 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		003162

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Community and solitude: social relations in the city
2. Space 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.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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