The visual landscape plays a pivotal role in urban planning and healthy cities. Recent
studies of visual evaluation focus on either objective or subjective approach, while …

This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value
and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has …

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of"
models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of …

Abstract Though Ray Oldenburg's (1989) notion of “third places”, or places conducive to
sociality outside of the realms of home and work, has received both scholarly and popular …

Policing efforts to thwart crime typically rely on criminal infraction reports, which implicitly
manifest a complex relationship between crime, policing and society. As a result, crime …

This study develops a Geographic Data Science framework that transforms the Foursquare
check-in locations and user origin-destination flows data into knowledge about the emerging …

Research on sexuality and space makes assumptions about spatial singularity: Across the
landscape of different neighborhoods in the city, there is one, and apparently only one …

This paper surveys dynamics and trends that have influenced and continue to influence the
three key tenants of American urban storefronts: retailers, food services, and personal …

The process of gentrification changes the composition and character of urban
neighbourhoods in cities worldwide. Amenities such as art galleries, designer boutiques …

Research on sexuality and space emphasizes geographic and institutional forms that are
stable, established, and fixed. By narrowing their analytic gaze on such places, which …