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In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the concrete places where neighborly interactions still take place and to how these interactions affect local community building. She illuminates and explores the ordinary everyday interactions and social practices in and around shops and gastronomic facilities on a shopping street in Berlin-Neukölln, revealing how these businesses are important places where community is practiced, but also why they are increasingly threatened by commercial and residential gentrification. Contents Social Life and Trade on a Metropolitan Shopping Street Sensitizing Theoretical Concepts and Social Practice Approach Ethnographic Research Design for the Study of Local Businesses The Social and Spatial Context of the Case Businesses Businesses as Third Places Store Owners on a Gentrifying Street: Public Characters that Offer “More” Target Groups Researchers and students in the fields of urban studies, urban sociology, geography, and planning Practitioners and decision-makers in the fields of urban-planning , urban and local economic development The Author Dr. Anna Steigemann is an Urban Sociologist and works as an Assistant Professor at the Chair of International Urbanism and Design at Technical University Berlin. .

Sociology, Urban. --- Human geography. --- Urban geography. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Human Geography. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Geography --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Human ecology --- Social sciences --- Sociology, Urban --- Human geography --- Urban geography

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Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Bandes bringen demokratietheoretische Fragestellungen mit partizipatorischen Erfahrungen aus Quartieren zusammen. Charakteristisch für viele partizipative Planungsmodi ist ihr sozialräumlicher Kontext – das Quartier. Über dessen Mehrwert für gelingende Demokratie ist jedoch nur wenig bekannt: Während mit partizipativen Verfahren auf der Quartiersebene versucht wird, möglichst viele Menschen zu erreichen und so die Demokratie zu stärken, gibt es vor Ort Initiativen, die die Quartiersentwicklung als Koproduzierende stärker aktiv mitbestimmen möchten. Konflikte – und damit Anlässe für demokratische Momente – sind vorprogrammiert, wenn externe Interessen auf lokale Bedürfnisse stoßen. Dieses Buch bietet dazu vielfältige Erkenntnisse aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Der Inhalt Theoretische und konzeptionelle Zugänge zu Quartier und Demokratie Akteursvielfalt und Beteiligungskulturen Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende der Stadtforschung, Stadtplanung, Stadtentwicklung, Sozialen Arbeit, Sozialgeographie und Politikwissenschaften Akteure aus der Praxis der Quartiersarbeit in Kommunen und Initiativen Die Herausgeber Dr. Olaf Schnur ist wissenschaftlicher Leiter beim vhw – Bundesverband für Wohnen und Stadtentwicklung e.V. in Berlin. Dr. Matthias Drilling leitet das Institut Sozialplanung, Organisationaler Wandel und Stadtentwicklung der Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit an der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz. Oliver Niermann ist Geograph und arbeitet als Referent für Wohnraum- und Städtebauförderung, Landesplanung und Raumordnung beim VdW Rheinland Westfalen e.V.

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This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was a member republic of the USSR). The first two parts of the book provide contextual material to help readers understand the vision behind housing estates in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. These sections present the background of housing estates in the Baltic Republics as well as challenges and debates concerning their formation, evolution, and present condition and importance. Subsequent parts of the book consist of: demographic analyses of the socioeconomic characteristics and ethnicity of housing estate residents (past and present) in the three Baltic capital cities, case studies of people and places related to housing estates in the Baltic countries, and chapters exploring relevant special topics and themes. This book will be of interest to students, scholars, and advocates interested in understanding the past, present, and future importance of housing estates in the Baltic countries.

Human Geography. --- Europe—Economic conditions. --- Demography. --- Sociology, Urban. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- European Economics. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Vital statistics --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Urban geography. --- Human geography. --- Urban geography --- Human geography --- Europe—Economic conditions --- Demography --- Sociology, Urban --- Europe --- Population. --- Urban Sociology. --- Population and Demography. --- Economic conditions. --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Sociology --- Malthusianism --- Gay culture Europe

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This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating body centre stage by following how gendered body norms, food taboos, power structures and social differentiation shape people’s ambivalent relations with food. It uncovers Vietnam’s trajectories of agricultural modernisation against which consumers and producers manoeuvre amongst food self-sufficiency, security and abundance. Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam is explicitly about ‘dangerous’ food – regarding its materiality and meaning. It provides social science perspectives on anxieties related to food and surrounding discourses that travel between the local and the global, the individual and society and into the body. Therefore, the book’s lens of food anxiety matters for social theory and for understanding the embeddedness and discontinuities of food globalizations in Vietnam and beyond. Due to its rich empirical base, methodological approaches and thematic foci, it will appeal to scholars, practitioners and students alike.

Sociology, Urban. --- Medicine. --- Ethnology. --- Human Geography. --- Economic development. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Development Studies. --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Health Workforce --- Health promotion. --- Human geography. --- Health promotion programs --- Health promotion services --- Promotion of health --- Wellness programs --- Preventive health services --- Health education --- Social sciences --- Sociology, Urban --- Health promotion --- Ethnology --- Human geography --- Economic development