{"product_id":"walking-in-cities-quotidian-mobility-as-urban-theory-method-and-practice-9781439912218","title":"Walking in Cities: Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Evrick Brown\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - Urban\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalking connects the rhythms of urban life to the configuration of urban spaces. As the contributors and editors show in \u003ci\u003eWalking in Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eWalking in Cities\u003c\/i\u003e explore how walking intersects with sociological dimensions such as gender, race and ethnicity, social class, and power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVarious chapters explorethe \u003ci\u003efl�neuse\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eWalking in Cities\u003c\/i\u003e provide important lessons about urban life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46504463728791,"sku":"9781439912218","price":3337.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781439912218.webp?v=1769191356","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/walking-in-cities-quotidian-mobility-as-urban-theory-method-and-practice-9781439912218","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}