Economics, Geography, Human Geography, Specific Demographics, Urban, Earth Sciences, Sociology 

Democracy & Ecology S. 

By adopting an approach that is sensitive to issues of difference as well as to the role of the state, Cities of Difference considers the fragmentation of city life and the complex relationship between identity, power and place. 

Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Ruth Fincher; Jane M Jacobs
ISBN: 1572303115 9781572303119 1572303107 9781572303102
OCLC Number: 38431618
Description: x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: Grids of difference : place and identity formation / Geraldine Pratt --
In the right place at the right time? Life stages and urban spaces / Ruth Fincher --
Suburban stories, gendered lives : thinking though difference / Robyn Dowling --
Justice and the disabling city / Brendan Gleeson --
Community responses to human service delivery in U.S. cities / Lois M. Takahashi --
Sexuality and urban space : gay male identity politics in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia / Lawrence Knopp --
Sexing the city / Liz Bondi --
Sites of difference : beyond a cultural politics of race polarity / Kay Anderson --
Contesting social relations in communal places : identity politics among Asian communities in Dar es Salaam / Richa Nagar and Helga Leitner --
Staging difference : aestheticization and the politics of difference in contemporary cities / Jane M. Jacobs --
Whose city? Gender, class, and immigration in globalizing European cities / Eleonore Kofman --
Social polarization and the politics of difference : discourses in collision or collusion? / Katherine Gibson.
Series Title: Democracy & Ecology S.
Responsibility: edited by Ruth Fincher, Jane M. Jacobs.