Space, the City and Social Theory: Social Relations and Urban Forms

by Fran Tonkiss

Book Overview

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. It explores the relation of the social and the spatial in the context of critical urban themes: community and anonymity; social difference and spatial divisions; politics and public space; gentrification and urban renewal; gender and sexuality; subjectivity and space; experience and everyday practice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745628265
• ISBN13: 9780745628264
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 8.9"