Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs

272 Pages·2014·1.62 MB·English

by  Paul Watt, Peer Smets (eds.)

Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging
in Cities and Suburbs
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Mobilities and
Neighbourhood Belonging
in Cities and Suburbs
Editedby
Paul Watt
SeniorLecturer,Birkbeck,UniversityofLondon,UK
Peer Smets
AssistantProfessor,VUUniversity,Amsterdam,theNetherlands
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
PrefaceandAcknowledgements ix
NotesonContributors x
1 Introduction 1
PaulWattandPeerSmets
2 LocalandTransnationalEverydayPractices
inFourEuropeanCities:AreNewBarbarianson
theRoad? 23
AlbertaAndreotti,PatrickLeGalèsandFranciscoJavier
MorenoFuentes
3 ConsumptionPracticesandLocalBelongingAmong
CondominiumResidentsinMexicoCity 42
AngelaGiglia
4 Livingina(n)(un)GatedCommunity:Neighbourhood
BelonginginLisbon’sParquedasNações 60
MariaAssunçãoGato
5 BelongingandMicrosettingsinaRotterdam
HousingComplex 80
PeerSmetsandAnnemetteHellinga
6 Neighbours,NewcomersandNation-Building:Producing
NeighbourhoodasLocalityinaPost-ApartheidCape
TownSuburb 100
AnnaBohlin
7 EastLondonMobilities:The‘CockneyDiaspora’andthe
RemakingoftheEssexEthnoscape 121
PaulWatt,GarethMillingtonandRupaHuq
8 Teenagers’MobilitiesandSenseofBelonginginthe
ParisianSensitiveUrbanAreas 145
NicolasOppenchaim
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9 Class,CommunityandBelongingina‘ChavTown’ 164
EliasleGrand
10 Newcomersvs.Old-Timers?Community,Cooperationand
ConflictinthePost-SocialistSuburbsofWrocław,Poland 182
KatarzynaKajdanek
11 In-BetweenMobilityinToronto’sNew(Sub)urban
Neighbourhoods 201
RogerKeilandDouglasYoung
Conclusion 222
PaulWattandPeerSmets
References 229
Index 249
Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Transnationalmobilitypracticesandrootedness
practices 28
3.1 AresidentialcondominiuminCoyoacanDistrict,
MexicoCity 49
4.1 MapshowingLisbon,contiguousmunicipalitiesandthe
locationoftheParquedasNações 69
4.2 NorthAreaofParquedasNações–buildingdensityand
theurbanpark 70
4.3 SouthAreaoftheParquedasNações–themarinaand
waterfrontpromenade 71
5.1 LocationofLeMediinRotterdam 85
5.2 StreetsinsideLeMedi 86
5.3 ThegatesofLeMedi 87
5.4 TheinnersquareofLeMedi 88
6.1 MapoftheCapePeninsulawithProteaVillage 103
7.1 MapofGreaterLondon(showingeastLondon
boroughs),ThurrockandSouthend-on-Sea 122
10.1 Numberofnewcomersregisteredinsevendistrictsof
poviatofWrocław,1995–2011 186
11.1 In-betweenstudyarea,Toronto 203
11.2 Geographiesofworkandtransportation 209
Tables
2.1 Respondents’transnationalandrootednessindexes,by
citiesandtypeofneighbourhood(%) 29
2.2 Factorsconsideredbymanagerswhenchoosingareaof
residence(%) 34
5.1 Typologyoftheinteriorandtheexteriorresidents 96
7.1 EthnicgroupsinThurrockandSouthend-on-Sea,
2001–11 131
8.1 Characteristicsoftheteenagersaccordingtotheirsocial
categoriesandtheirdistricts(%) 150
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8.2 Teenagerstransportedbytheirparentsintheweekend
forextracurricularactivities(%) 150
8.3 Teenagersunder14havingusedPTwithouttheir
parentsintheweekend(%) 151
8.4 Girlswithoutweekendextracurricularactivitiesoutside
theirhomes(%) 151
8.5 MaingroupsofteenagersintheSUAs 153
10.1 Newinhabitants’opinionofwhetherpeopleprefer
livinginprivateorpublicsphere(%) 191
Preface and Acknowledgements
ThemajorityofchaptersinthisbookoriginatefromtheXVIIthWorld
CongressoftheInternationalSociologicalAssociation,whichwasheld
in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 2010. For this Congress, we submitted
a session proposal to the Research Committee 21 (RC21), Sociology
of Urban and Regional Development, on the theme ‘Neighbourhoods,
SocialMixingandMobilitiesinUrbanandSuburbanAreas’.Wereceived
an extremely large number of abstract proposals, and at the Congress
itself we were able to host three interlinked sessions on our theme.
We would like to thank all of the presenters for a very stimulating
set of sessions. We are also grateful to RC21 for their assistance in
putting on the sessions, and in particular the efforts of Kuniko Fujita
(Michigan State University) and Fernando Diaz Orueta (University of
Rioja).FromtheimpressiverangeofpaperpresentationsinGothenburg,
weselectedthosethatwefelthadthebestpotentialtoformthebasisfor
anexciting,thematicallycoherentbook.Inadditiontothese,eachedi-
torco-authoredseparatechaptersrelatedtothethemesofthebook.Paul
acknowledgesthecontributionofGarethMillingtonandRupaHuq,his
chapterco-authors,andPeersimilarlyacknowledgesthecontributionof
AnnemetteHellingatohischapter.
Such a publication would not have been possible without the assis-
tanceofBethO’Leary,AndrewJames,PhilippaGrand,NaomiRobinson
and Anna Reeve at Palgrave Macmillan; we are very grateful for their
advice and patience in the process of making this book. We would
also like to thank the following for their insightful comments on the
introductorychapter:TimButler,KeithJacobsandGarethMillington.
PaulWattandPeerSmets
LondonandAmsterdam
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