Inequality and Uncertainty: Current Challenges for Cities

Description

It is not possible to ignore the fact that cities are not only moving, vibrant and flourishing spaces, promising hope for better quality of life, but that they also accumulate and reflect significant problems. This book explores the relational and dynamic nature of urban inequalities, including their visible and invisible forms. By using the rather elusive term of ‘uncertainty’, the authors zoom in on specific aspects of urban inequalities that are difficult to measure, yet are acutely sensed and experienced by people and, more and more often, perceived as unfair. Here, in the recognition of inequalities as unjust and in the disagreement with the status quo, lies a positive aspect of uncertainty, which can lead to a social awakening and more active citizenship. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi Cities as the Strategic Terrain of Research on Contemporary Inequalities and Uncertainty (Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Patrícia Pereira, Laura Guarino, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Juan José Villalón)....Pages 1-20 Front Matter ....Pages 21-21 Social and Spatial Uncertainty and Inequality: The Refiguration of Spaces as Today’s Challenge for Cities (Martina Löw)....Pages 23-41 Cosmopolitanism vs Identity and Belonging? (M. Victoria Gómez)....Pages 43-61 Digital Natives and Living in the City of the Future: Contradictions and Ambivalences (Susanne Frank)....Pages 63-83 Front Matter ....Pages 85-85 “Fear, Disgust and Dignity”: The Securitisation of Everyday Life and the New Revanchism Against the Urban Subaltern in a Working-Class Area of Madrid (Begoña Aramayona)....Pages 87-104 Protest and Taste: Socio-Spatial Restructuring of Moda After Gezi Protests (Kaan Kubilay Aşar)....Pages 105-118 Urban Inequalities and Egalitarian Scenes: Relationality in Urban Place-Making and Community-Building and Paradox of Egalitarianism (Marta Klekotko)....Pages 119-138 Outcomes of Urban Requalification Under Neoliberalism: A Critical Appraisal of the SRU Model (Rosa Branco, Sónia Alves)....Pages 139-158 Front Matter ....Pages 159-159 Feeling Safe, Defining Crime and Urban Youth in Berlin’s Inner City: An Exploration of the Construction of ‘Unsafety’ and ‘Youth’ as Symbolic Violence (Talja Blokland, Vojin Šerbedžija)....Pages 161-183 Trust Thy Neighbour? Interpersonal Trust in Twelve Ethnically Diverse European Neighbourhoods (Rui F. Carvalho)....Pages 185-204 Refugees and Borders: Simmel’s Contributions on Space and Strangeness to Reflect on the Condition of Contemporary Refugees in Europe (Inês Vieira, João Pedro Nunes)....Pages 205-224 The Use of Factor Analysis in Urban Research: The Case of the Metropolitan Area of Bilbao (Iraide Fernández Aragón, Cristina Lavía Martínez)....Pages 225-249 Front Matter ....Pages 251-251 From “Chabolas” to Invisible Squats: A Reflection on the Residential Informality Evolution in Madrid (Noel A. Manzano Gómez, María Castrillo Romón)....Pages 253-272 Urban Scenes, Cultural Context Exposure and Contemporary Health Lifestyles: A Multilevel Analysis of Spanish Sub-municipal Areas (Ángel Ramón Zapata-Moya, Cristina Mateos-Mora, Clemente J. Navarro-Yáñez)....Pages 273-296 Front Matter ....Pages 297-297 Urban Climate Governance in the Amazon (Fronika de Wit)....Pages 299-317 Greening Urban Politics: Conflicts Over Tree Felling in Warsaw (Renata Putkowska-Smoter)....Pages 319-336