Gentrification, a process of neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This text throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.
Gentrification, a process of neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This text throws ...
Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This title throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that divides commentators on its worth and social costs, given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.
Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This title ...
This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance.
While gated communities have become a common feature of the urban landscape in South Africa, Latin and North America, it is also clear that there is now significant interest in gated living in the European and East Asian urban context. The chapters in this book investigate issues and communities such as:
gated communities in the metropolitan area of Buenos...
This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with w...
This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an attempt to civilize, pacify and regulate crime and disorder in urban areas, contributing to a vision of an urban renaissance which is perhaps as much about control as it is about the broader physical and social renewal of our towns and cities. The book has three key themes: the theories, strategies and assumptions underpinning the securing of 'Urban Renaissance'; the agendas of current urban policy in the field of crime control; and, thirdly, the...
This collection adds weight to an emerging argument that suggests that policies in place to make cities better places are inextricably linked to an at...
Criminology needs to rethink the problem of crime and re-engage its audience with strident theoretical analysis and powerful empirical data. In this book some of the world's most talented and polemical critical criminologists come together to offer new ideas and new avenues for analysis. The book contains chapters that address a broad range of issues central to 21st-century critical criminology.
Criminology needs to rethink the problem of crime and re-engage its audience with strident theoretical analysis and powerful empirical data. In this b...
Today's home has become a kind of fortress that says as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have become everyday features of urban life today, highlighting the depth of fear as well as desire for prestige and social display. Domestic Fortress offers a fresh analysis of our homes, our demands for security and anxieties about invasion, loss and finding seclusion in a worrying and divided world. As industries and politicians raise our fears further, Domestic Fortress considers...
Today's home has become a kind of fortress that says as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated ...
In the twenty-first century, a growing culture of fear is driving homeowners to retreat into fortified dwellings, concealed bunker pads and gated developments. Atkinson and Blandy explore the anxieties driving this retreat, ultimately linking them to the corporate and political manufacturing of fear, the triumph of neoliberal models of home ownership and related modes of social individualisation and risk that permeate society today. Drawing on perspectives and research from criminology, socio-legal studies, urban studies and sociology, they uncover a challenging vision of the...
In the twenty-first century, a growing culture of fear is driving homeowners to retreat into fortified dwellings, concealed bunker pads and gated d...
Issues around houses and homes reflect and inform our social, cultural and political worlds, from the subprime market and the financial crisis to social mobility and gender roles. Critically exploring key theories and cutting-edge debates, this text examines home in a global context for students across sociology, human geography and urban studies.
Issues around houses and homes reflect and inform our social, cultural and political worlds, from the subprime market and the financial crisis to s...
How are contemporary social divisions reinforced through the housing system? How should we understand problems of migration and household displacement? How do gender, sexuality and work shape the experience of the home? This text explores how sociologists should confront many of the most pressing housing issues and related political questions today.
How are contemporary social divisions reinforced through the housing system? How should we understand problems of migration and household displacement...
From environmental decline to growing economic inequality, things are getting worse for the majority of the human race and will continue to worsen until determined action is taken. Starting from this vantage point, Building Better Societies looks to social scientists to identify what is needed to solve the problems that are leading to a collapse of civil society. This is the first book to collect the ideas of those whose research on social conditions is at the forefront of our biggest societal problems. Challenging fellow social scientists to cast aside their commitment to the...
From environmental decline to growing economic inequality, things are getting worse for the majority of the human race and will continue to worsen unt...
