Reclaiming Cities as Spaces of Middle Class Parenthood

Johanna Lilius (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

171 Seiten

2018 | 2019 ed.
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-10-9009-7 (ISBN)

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For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas. In this book, Johanna Lilius conceptualizes the relatively recent phenomenon of families choosing to live in the inner city. Drawing on a range of qualitative data, the book offers a holistic approach to simultaneously understanding changes within parenting practices and changes connected to city development. The book explains not only why families choose to stay in the inner city and how they use the city in their everyday lives, but also how families change the landscape of contemporary cities, and how the family is, and has been, perceived in urban planning and policy-making. The Nordic perspective provided by Lilius makes this book an important contribution in helping understand inner city change outside the Anglo-American context, and will appeal to an international audience.

Johanna Lilius is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture, Aalto University, Finland, who has explored the phenomenon of families returning to inner cities for more than ten years. She has also researched urban and suburban regeneration, multi-locality, single household dwelling, street level consumption, sense of community in planning and everyday life, and strategic urban planning in the Nordic context.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Family and the City – a Historical Overview.- 3. The Contemporary Inner City and Families.- 4. Why Are Families Staying in the City?.- 5. Parenting Practices in the City.- 6. Urban Parents and the Changing Consumption Landscape in Helsinki.- 7. New Urban Figures in Contemporary Urban Reality?.- 8. Conclusion: The Domesticfication of Neighbourhoods.- 9. Research Design.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.10.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Contemporary City
Zusatzinfo	22 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 171 p. 22 illus.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Equal Parenting • Family Studies • fathering practices • Gentrification • Helsinki • hipster parents • Housing policies • latte parents • Middle-class parents • Neighbourhoods • Nordic Cities • Parenting Practices in the City • Scandi dads • Social Policy • social welfare systems • the urban parent • urban studies • work and family • YUPPS
ISBN-10	981-10-9009-2 / 9811090092
ISBN-13	978-981-10-9009-7 / 9789811090097
Zustand	Neuware