Suzanne Hall

City, Street and Citizen (eBook, ePUB)

The Measure of the Ordinary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a nuanced account of urban life, alongside the underlying economic and political structure of society and explores how individuals and groups participate in or disengage from cultural differences within the context of local life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136310614
• Artikelnr.: 38461377

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Hall is an urban ethnographer, and Lecturer and Researcher at LSE Cities (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK). Her research and teaching interests are foregrounded in local expressions of global urbanisation, particularly social and spatial forms of inclusion and exclusion, urban multiculture, the design of the city, and ethnography and visual methods. She is a recipient of the Rome Scholarship in Architecture (1998 - 1999) and the LSE's Robert McKenzie Prize for outstanding Ph.D. research (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Urban Multiculture: an ordinary orientation 2. Making
practice visible 3. The boundaries of belonging 4. The art of sitting 5.
The art of attire 6. The politics of nearness 7. Street measures 8.
Conclusions: Alternatives.