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4162 - Redefining Place
Tue, August 13, 8:30 to 10:10am, Sheraton New York, Floor: Third Floor, Liberty 4Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
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While crucial to our understanding of urban, rural, and spatial sociology, place remains fuzzy and has experienced significant conceptual inflation over the years. Each of these papers sheds light on how we should define place and our connections to it.
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Alienation Before and After Gentrification: Perceiving Disorder and Displacement in Two Chicago Neighborhoods - Steven Tuttle, Loyola University Chicago
Digital Space Meets Urban Place: Updating the Growth Machine Model in New York - Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City Univ of New York Graduate Ctr; Joanna Dressel, City University of New York-Graduate Center
Getting over the fence: Realising city parks’ boundaries through Urban Park Rangers’ practical action - Jonathan Ablitt, Cardiff University
Place Exploration: some challenges of investigating city ‘site effects’ through urban ethnography - Thomas Corcoran, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jennifer Abrams, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jonathan R. Wynn, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Pudong is not My Shanghai”: Displacement, place-identity, and right to the ‘city’ in urban China - Fang Xu, University of California, Berkeley