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<p><i>Space, the City and Social Theory</i> 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 in the city.</p> <p>The text adopts an international and interdisciplinary approach, drawing on a range of debates on cities and urban life. It brings together classic perspectives in urban sociology and social theory with the analysis of contemporary urban problems and issues. Rather than viewing the urban simply as a backdrop for more general social processes, the discussion looks at how social and spatial relations shape different versions of the city: as a place of social interaction and of solitude; as a site of difference and segregation; as a space of politics and power; as a landscape of economic and cultural distinction; as a realm of everyday experience and freedom. Similarly, it examines how core social categories - su
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Fran Tonkiss
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780745628257
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Science, Sociology
- Rating
- 4.17 / 5 (24 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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