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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.

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“A wonderfully eclectic but focused book about social relations and spatial process in the US city.”
British Journal of Sociology

“Fran Tonkiss has written an important book. She shows the ways in which classic social theory continues to haunt the understanding of modern urban life. In clear, direct prose she shows also the ways cities are changing, and so require new thinking. The urbanite as well as the urbanist will be provoked.”
Richard Sennett, London School of Economics

“This is an exceptionally useful and inspiring book that will be used to instruct many of the urbanists of the future.”
Nigel Thrift, University of Oxford



Table of Contents
Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. Community and Solitude: Social Relations in the City.

2. Spaces 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.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.

Space the City and Social Theory

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      Publisher Polity Press
      Published 1 April 2006
      ISBN-13 9780745628264
      978-0745628264
      ISBN-10 0745628265
      Also in:
      Sociology and anthropology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      “A wonderfully eclectic but focused book about social relations and spatial process in the US city.”
      British Journal of Sociology

      “Fran Tonkiss has written an important book. She shows the ways in which classic social theory continues to haunt the understanding of modern urban life. In clear, direct prose she shows also the ways cities are changing, and so require new thinking. The urbanite as well as the urbanist will be provoked.”
      Richard Sennett, London School of Economics

      “This is an exceptionally useful and inspiring book that will be used to instruct many of the urbanists of the future.”
      Nigel Thrift, University of Oxford



      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements.

      Introduction.

      1. Community and Solitude: Social Relations in the City.

      2. Spaces 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.

      Conclusion.

      Bibliography.

      Index.

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