ISBN:
9781009389044
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (184 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
307.1416095525
Abstract:
With an interdisciplinary approach, the book is written in a narrative style and in an accessible format to appeal to both academic readers and a broader audience. The book appeals to those who want to learn more about urban processes in Iran through first-hand accounts of daily life.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- A Note to the Reader -- 1 Introduction: Public Space and Urban Life -- Urban Contexts and Spatial Mechanisms -- Fieldwork Sites, Research Design, and Methods -- The Narrative of the Book -- 2 The City: ''The Making of a Metropolis'' -- Urban Development in Tehran: Global and Regional Contexts -- Tehran: The graphyGeography of Inequality -- Shifting Social and Cultural Orders -- 3 The Market: Inequality and Spatial Patterns of Consumption -- Moving across the City and Urban Experience -- Inequality Reproduced: Uses of Space by Different Social Groups -- Inequality Emplaced: Perceptions and Experiences of Inequality in Place -- The Geography of Inequality and the Dilemma of Development -- 4 The Street: Noneconomic Inequalities and Navigating Space -- The Cultural Is Political . . . and Unequal -- Gendered Experiences in Place -- Cultural Inequality and the Power of Space -- 5 The Vista: Spatial Boundaries, Self, and Others -- ''Who Are These People?'': Notions of ''Other'' and ''Otherness'' in Public Spaces -- Spatial Transformations and the Redefinition of Boundaries: Reflections on Economy and Culture -- Boundary Work and Locational Space -- 6 The Highway: ''A City of My Own'' -- My Beloved City: Tehran and Identification with the City -- Symbolism and Perceptions of Place and Time -- The City (Re)Discovered -- 7 Conclusion: Up in the Mountains, Back to the City -- Appendices -- Appendix I: Methodology -- The Logic of the Site Selection -- Research Design and Methods -- Challenges, Adjustments, and Reflexivity -- Appendix II: Overview of Research Sites -- Site 1. Baam-e Tehran: Leisure Space in the North -- Site 2. Ab-O-Atash Park and the Tabiat Bridge: Leisure Space in the North.
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