City, Public Space, and Body: The Embodied Experience of Urban Life (1) (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)

By: Asma Mehan and Mahsa Alami Fariman and Chien Lee and Ahmadreza Hakiminejad

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Synopsis: City, Public Space, and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience, shape, and are shaped by urban life, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.Bringing together contributions from scholars, artists, and practitioners across diverse geographies, the book explores the entangled relationships between urban space, embodiment, and publicness through a variety of methodological lenses including ethnography, visual and performative arts, and critical urban theory. The book highlights underexplored themes such as gendered vulnerability, spatial justice, post-pandemic public space, and marginalized urban bodies in both Global North and Global South contexts. By focusing on lived experience and embodied methodologies, the book challenges dominant urban narratives and contributes fresh perspectives on space, care, power, and resistance. It will benefit readers seeking to rethink cities not merely as physical or functional entities, but as affective and contested terrains of social life.Designed for researchers, students, and professionals in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, gender studies, and cultural geography, this collection foregrounds the bodily and sensory dimensions of urban encounters, spatial politics, and everyday life.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 206 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781040639238
Related ISBNs:: 9781032662381, 9781040509388, 9781032662428
Publisher:: Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:: 11/18/25
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Mahsa Alami Fariman, Chien Lee, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad, Asma Mehan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Mahsa Alami Fariman
Edited by:: Chien Lee
Edited by:: Ahmadreza Hakiminejad
Edited by:: Asma Mehan