Everyday Life in the Segmented City (Research in Urban Sociology, 11)

This volume of "Research in Urban Sociology" is composed of a selection of the papers presented at the conference "Everyday Life in the Segmented City" held in July 2010, Florence. The conference gathered a multiplicity of approaches and points of view dealing with issues of global urbanization. Urbanization is a phenomenon inscribed into the globalization process that has enormous consequences in the transformation of urban space and the everyday life of citizens, and is reflected also in the flourishing of an analytical discourse increasingly transcending the boundaries of established urban disciplines. The progressive extension of the urban domain beyond the limits of the city and across diverse scales has its corollary in the progressive segmentation of the urban dimension along multiple lines of physical, social, economic, cultural and ethnic nature. This volume focuses on the perspective of the everyday to analyze how practices and policy can overcome the spin towards fragmentation and anomie, and reinforce social cohesion for a more just and livable city, endorsing the "right to the city" as presented by the seminal work of Henri Lefebvre. Research_in (1)......Page 1 Research in urban sociology......Page 2 Everyday_Life (1)......Page 3 Preface......Page 4 Everyday life in the segmented city: An introduction......Page 6 References......Page 13 List of contributors......Page 14 What would a ’DiverCity’ be likequest Speculation on difference-sensitive planning and living practices......Page 16 Introduction......Page 17 From segmented city to DiverCity......Page 19 Living practices and interactions......Page 21 Handling Multiple Knowledges......Page 22 Useable Creativity......Page 24 Spirituality in Planning......Page 25 Design that Enables Diversity......Page 26 Images......Page 28 Perspectives......Page 31 Final remarks......Page 35 Notes......Page 37 References......Page 38 From urban sprawl to sustainable cities: a neighborhood perspective in urban studies......Page 41 Collective efficacy and neighborhood: the studies of Robert Sampson......Page 45 An ’urban neighborhood pathway’ to sustainable city?......Page 50 References......Page 52 The productive gaze. Florence as archetype of the cinematic city......Page 55 Introduction......Page 56 Image-space dialectics......Page 57 Assessing the cinematic urban form1......Page 59 An archetype of the cinematic city......Page 62 The gaze of the other......Page 63 A global space of representation......Page 65 Tracing the visitor’s eye......Page 68 Space of exposure......Page 70 Controlling the image of the city......Page 73 Conclusion......Page 74 Notes......Page 76 References......Page 77 The politics of space in an ethno-nationally contested city: Strategies and everyday practices......Page 79 Introduction......Page 80 Background: The politics of urban space......Page 81 Urban space in an ethno-nationally contested city......Page 83 Coexistence in the mixed city......Page 85 Urban space in a mixed city......Page 87 Negotiating the urban space......Page 90 Strategies and everyday practices......Page 96 Conclusion......Page 100 Notes......Page 102 References......Page 104 bm_fur......Page 108 This is what radical democracy looks likeexcl Reclaiming urban space in Vienna......Page 109 Introduction......Page 110 The right to the protest city: reclaiming and producing counter-hegemonic urban space......Page 111 Radical democratic perspectives on political counter publics......Page 113 Towards integrated perspectives on urban protest: theorising intersections of the material and the symbolic......Page 116 This is what radical democracy looks likeexcl autonomous urban protest in vienna......Page 119 Transforming urban protest: from fordism to neo-liberalism......Page 121 Co-option as an option......Page 122 Resisting neo-liberal city-face-lifting......Page 123 Transnational protest politics and the right to the protest city......Page 125 Concluding remarks......Page 128 Acknowledgements......Page 130 References......Page 131 bm_fur......Page 133 The segmented quotidian made visible: Jean Vigo’s A Propos de Nice......Page 134 The real nice versus Vigo’s reel nice......Page 136 Aristocratic and bourgeois nice......Page 140 Vieux nice and carnival......Page 145 Toward destruction and the ecstatic......Page 149 Conclusion......Page 152 References......Page 154 Segmented cities with fuzzy walls: changes in informal settlements as seen through a multiscale analysis......Page 155 Introduction......Page 156 From segregated to segmented cities: changes in urban structure models......Page 157 From rigid to fuzzy walls: changes in the intervention models for informal settlements......Page 163 From rigid to fuzzy walls: limits of informal settlements’ cartographic representations......Page 166 Increasing scales, removing the walls......Page 169 Conclusion......Page 177 References......Page 178 Global phenomenon - local effect: the question of place identity in view of the globalization and commercialization of urban space......Page 180 Introduction......Page 181 Place identity: the model assumed in the study......Page 182 Global phenomena - local effects......Page 184 Existential space versus the strip of flows: Gliwice case study......Page 187 Who are wequest The question about the identity of place......Page 192 New challenge......Page 194 Comprehensive environmental education: an attempt at searching the tool......Page 196 Local activities: examples......Page 201 Conclusion......Page 203 References......Page 205 A heritage claim to public space: examples from a mixed neighbourhood in Drammen, Norway......Page 206 Introduction......Page 207 Urban Renewal, Heritage and Opportunity Space......Page 209 Public Space and Urban Social Life......Page 211 Planning to Ensure Multi-Functional and Multicultural Dimensions......Page 212 Observations and Photo Documentation......Page 213 Interviews......Page 214 The Schoolchildren Project: Photo and Storytelling......Page 215 As Found: A Patchwork Structure......Page 216 The Main Themes Accentuated in the Plans for Str1⁄2ms1⁄2......Page 217 Observations......Page 219 Interviews......Page 220 Schoolchildren’s Visual Voices......Page 222 Discussion......Page 226 Conclusion......Page 230 References......Page 231 Sensitive urban renewal or gentrificationquest The case of the karmeliterviertel in Vienna......Page 233 Cities and gentrification......Page 234 Patterns of segregation......Page 237 The concept of ’soft urban renewal’......Page 238 Methodology......Page 241 Description of the Research Area......Page 242 Soft Urban Renewal or Gentrificationquest......Page 243 Conclusion......Page 247 References......Page 248 Users’ Perception and Representative Image of the ’Navigli’ Area in Milan......Page 250 Introduction......Page 251 Space consumption and identity of a place......Page 252 The case study: the Navigli area......Page 258 Methodology......Page 259 User Sample Composition......Page 261 Findings......Page 262 Conclusions......Page 267 References......Page 268 Youth policies, social sanitation, and contested suburban nightscapes......Page 270 Introduction......Page 271 Youth policies as social and moral control......Page 273 Consuming suburban nightscapes, (re)producing alterity......Page 278 Conclusions......Page 285 Notes......Page 286 References......Page 287 Social change and social capital in an english suburban council estate: the whitley estate, reading, in south east england......Page 291 The demise of sociological interest in working-class suburban housing estates......Page 292 Historical background......Page 296 The growth of the whitley estate......Page 297 The whitley estate as a suburban problem......Page 300 The 1980 housing act: rethinking social polarisation and social capital......Page 303 Associative action in defence of council housing in reading......Page 306 Sport and social organisation......Page 309 Environmental campaigning......Page 311 Conclusion......Page 312 References......Page 313 Active citizenship in Italian cohousing: a preliminary reflection......Page 315 The American pragmatic model......Page 319 Civic commitment within the third wave of cohousing......Page 321 The cohousing concept: Diffusion and ambiguous treatment in Italy......Page 323 Bottom-up initiatives critical aspects and main issues concerning the cohousing model in the Italian context......Page 326 A preliminary analysis of a case study: The Solidaria cohousing association in the Ferrara context......Page 331 Conclusions......Page 336 Notes......Page 337 References......Page 338 The conference "Everyday Life in the Segmented City", held in July 2010, Florence, gathered a multiplicity of approaches and points of view dealing with issues of global urbanization. This title contains a selection of the papers presented at the conference.