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This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period.
Author : Kevin Gilmartin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 11,56 MB
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1107064783
This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period.
Author : William Hollingsworth Whyte
Publisher : Ingram
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Open spaces
ISBN : 9780970632418
The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.
Author : Claude S. Fischer
Publisher : New York : Free Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Psychology
ISBN :
Author : John Tomaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2024-02-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1040029035
This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy attention as sites of a political backlash against globalisation and liberal democracy. The book focuses on the role of social infrastructure as a key component of this story. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading ‘left behind places’, the book addresses the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. It develops an analytical framework that emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers ‘left behind places’ as ‘moral communities’ and the making of social infrastructure as an expression of this; views the unmaking of social infrastructure through the lens of ‘root shock’; and explains efforts at remaking it in terms of the articulation of ‘radical hope’. The analysis builds upon a case study of a former mining community in County Durham, North East England. Using mixed methods, it offers a ‘deep place study’ of a single village to understand more fully the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure. It shows how a place once richly endowed with social infrastructure, saw this endowment wither and the effects this had on the community. However, it also records efforts of the local people to rebuild social infrastructure, typically drawing the lessons of the past. Although the story of one village, the methods, results and policy recommendation have much wider applicability. The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and others concerned with the fate of ‘left behind places’.
Author : Merrill L. Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2022-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9811686262
This book provides a foundational look at social virtual worlds from the geographer’s perspective. How can the geographer’s craft be applied to social virtual worlds? This question is addressed through careful analysis of what social virtual worlds are, how interest in these worlds has waxed and waned during the twenty-first century, and the meaning of their concocted spaces. Examining one of the key features of the social virtual world, the avatar, the book focuses on its user's motivations and identity choices. The book draws on the geographical understanding of place to examine where avatars live, work, and roam, and describes how virtual-world places resemble and diverge from actual-world places. A mixed-methods survey conducted in Second Life adds additional breadth to the discussion, whilst a series of vignettes gives extra life to the subject matter. This original exploration of the content and meaning of social virtual worlds is an essential resource for geographers, and for anyone interested in the virtual world experience.
Author : Jay Walljasper
Publisher : New Society Publishers
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1550923420
Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers? Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and comfortable seating? What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a dynamic gathering place? How do individuals take back their neighborhood? Neighborhoods decline when the people who live there lose their connection and no longer feel part of their community. Recapturing that sense of belonging and pride of place can be as simple as planting a civic garden or placing some benches in a park. The Great Neighborhood Book explains how most struggling communities can be revived, not by vast infusions of cash, not by government, but by the people who live there. The author addresses such challenges as traffic control, crime, comfort and safety, and developing economic vitality. Using a technique called "placemaking"-- the process of transforming public space -- this exciting guide offers inspiring real-life examples that show the magic that happens when individuals take small steps, and motivate others to make change. This book will motivate not only neighborhood activists and concerned citizens but also urban planners, developers and policy-makers.
Author : Erving Goffman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,67 MB
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439108692
Erving Goffman effectively extends his argument in favor of a diagnosis of deviant behavior which takes account of the whole social situation.
Author : Scott W. Allard
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0871545195
Introduction -- (Re)considering poverty and place in the U.S -- The changing geography of poverty in the U.S -- The local safety net response -- Understanding metropolitan social service safety nets -- Rethinking poverty, rethinking policy
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Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 1918
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Caroline Holland
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This report examines how different people use public spaces and analyses how social interactions vary by age, gender or place. A free pdf version of this report is available online at www.jrf.org.uk