Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations

By: Sabine Knierbein and Ed Wall and Tihomir Viderman and Sybille Frank and Nikolai Roskamm and Elina Kränzle

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Synopsis: While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in constant tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban societies confront, undergo and overcome turbulence and difficulties in time and space. Contributions drawing on theoretical reflections and empirical accounts—from Argentina, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the UAE, the UK, the USA and Vietnam—give insights into plural occurrences of the unsettled, which might tie down or unleash transformative, liberatory and emancipatory potentials. This book is for students, professionals and researchers interested in the uncertainties, foundations, disturbances, inconsistencies, residuals and blind fields, which constitute the urban both as lived space and as social, cultural and political ideal.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 288 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000799637
Related ISBNs:: 9780429290237, 9780367258603, 9780367258610
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/26/22
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Elina Kränzle, Sybille Frank, Nikolai Roskamm and Ed Wall
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Tihomir Viderman
Edited by:: Sabine Knierbein
Edited by:: Elina Kränzle
Edited by:: Sybille Frank
Edited by:: Nikolai Roskamm
Edited by:: Ed Wall