The Places Where Community Is Practiced
Subtitle: How Store Owners and Their Businesses Build Neighborhood Social Life
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9783658253936
Subjects: Sociology; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning
Description: 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.
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

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