Overview
Presents cutting-edge theoretical reflection and empirical evidence of the multifaceted challenges facing cities today.
Using both macro and micro approaches, presents and discusses multiple aspects of the daily life of our cities under the common rubric of uncertainty and inequality.
Provides evidence-based knowledge from diverse contemporary European case studies, pointing to interdependencies between economic, political, demographic and cultural factors of urban inequalities and uncertainty.
Edited by expert team of researchers from the European Sociological Association (ESA) Research Network 37:Urban Sociology.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Urban Inequalities and Uncertainty as Conceptual Challenges
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Revisiting Social Change and Gentrification
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Urban Diversity and Boundaries
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
M. Victoria Gómez is senior lecturer at University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Patricia Pereira is a researcher in urban sociology at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences, Portugal.
Laura Guarino is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Genoa, Italy and research assistant at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
Sebastian Kurtenbach is interim professor for social policy at the University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany.
Juan José Villalón Ogáyar is senior lecturer at the University National of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inequality and Uncertainty
Book Subtitle: Current Challenges for Cities
Editors: Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Patrícia Pereira, Laura Guarino, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Juan José Villalón
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9162-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9161-4Published: 02 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9164-5Published: 24 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9162-1Published: 13 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 336
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Human Geography