This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.
This is a critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities …

Abstract In Western Europe, a select number of “ghettos” are at the forefront of public
anxieties about urban inequality and failed integration. These notorious neighbourhoods at …

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial
constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy …

In studies on the ties between residents and their residential surroundings, it is generally
assumed that, over time, residents become more attached to their neighbourhood. However …

Urban scholars commonly expect that residents show more neighbourhood belonging, the
longer they live in an area. An imagery of fixed settlements thus remains dominant in a …

Governance in cities: Urban imagination and integration of immigration policy. Territory,
Politics, Governance. This article examines how urban policy actors organize policy practice …

Gentrification has become a central pillar of urban policy in cities around the world.
Proponents often frame it as a necessity and the sole alternative to neighbourhood decline …

This paper interrogates the performative and affective aspects of relational place‐making
processes by which people construct the everyday geographies of public space. Based on …

Across Europe, ethnically diverse neighborhoods figure as key sites in racialized public
debates that imagine the nation as white and nonwhite citizens as foreign to the body politic …

Framed within the context of contemporary place making and the urban tourism destination,
a novel trans-disciplinary approach to mapping and interpreting gentrification and cityscape …