Walking in the European City: Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography

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Contents: Introduction: walking in the European city, Timothy Shortell and Evrick Brown. Part I Theoretical Elaborations: The flaneur: a way of walking, exploring and interpreting the city, Giampaolo Nuvolati The act of walking: exemplifying Danish pedestrian culture, Maria Quvang Harck Vestergaard, Mette Olesen and Pernille Falborg Helmer Moving through the city with strangers? Public transport as a significant type of urban public space, Giulio Mattioli Walking between planes: why hypermobile people take to walking in the city, Sonia Lavadinho Mobility in Thessaloniki: the Greek economic crisis and the transformation of mobility, Eleni Sideri. Part II Visual Methods: Drifting in Chinatowns: toward a situationist analysis of polyglot urban spaces in New York, Paris, and London, Timothy Shortell and Konrad Aderer Walking through instead of flying over: a way to see the flux of urbanization in Istanbul and other places?, Martin Kohler Walking in search of migrants in European cities, Jerome Krase Walking the stream: Prague cityscape and the research guided by the water, Karolina Pauknerova and Petr Gibas. Part III Ethnographic Approaches: Gdje si? Walking as a reflexive practice, Giulia Carabelli Challenging the hegemonic gaze on foot: walk-alongs as a useful method in gentrification research, Helena Holgersson A walk around the block: creating spaces for everyday encounters, Hilary Ramsden Walking through urban transformation: fieldwork in the Northeast of Paris, Federica Gatta and Maria Anita Palumbo. References Index.

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