TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Evrick
AU  - Shortell,Timothy
TI  - Walking in cities : quotidian mobility as urban theory, method, and practice 
T2  - Urban life, landscape and policy
SN  - 9781439912218 
AV  - HT151 .W298 2016
U1  - 307.76 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Tokyo
PB  - Temple University Press
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Walking
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Walking connects the rhythms of urban life to the configuration of urban spaces. As the contributors and editors show in Walking in Cities, walking also reflects the systematic inequalities that order contemporary urban life. Walking has different meanings because it can be a way of temporarily "taking possession" of urban space, or it can make the relatively powerless more vulnerable to crime. The essays in Walking in Cities explore how walking intersects with sociological dimensions such as gender, race and ethnicity, social class, and power.Various chapters explorethe flâneuse, or female urban drifter, in Tehran's shopping malls; Hispanic neighborhoods in New York, San Diego, and El Paso; and the intra-neighborhood and inter-class dynamics of gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.The essays in Walking in Cities provide important lessons about urban life"--
ER  -