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NETWORKED URBANISM

Networked Urbanism

Social Capital in the City

Edited by
TALJA BLOKLAND
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

MIKE SAVAGE
University of Manchester, UK

First published 2008 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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Copyright 2008 Talja Blokland and Mike Savage.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Networked urbanism : social capital in the city

1. Sociology, Urban 2. Social capital (Sociology)
3. Communities 4. Neighborhood 5. Social integration
I. Blokland-Potters, Talja II. Savage, Michael, 1959
307.7'6

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Networked urbanism: social capital in the city / [edited by] Talja Blokland and Mike Savage.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7201-2
1. Sociology, Urban. 2. Social capital (Sociology) 3. Communities. 4. Neighborhood. 5.
Social integration. I. Blokland-Potters, Talja. II. Savage, Michael, 1959-

HT151.N477 2008
302--dc22

2007048812

ISBN 978-0-754-67201-2 (hbk)

Contents

Talja Blokland and Mike Savage

Talja Blokland and Douglas Rae

Rowland G. Atkinson

Bruce D. Haynes and Jesus Hernandez

Alexandra M. Curley

Talja Blokland and Floris Noordhoff

Alberta Andreotti and Patrick Le Gals

Talja Blokland

Mike Savage, Gindo Tampubolon and Alan Warde

Fiona Devine, Peter Halfpenny, Nadia Joanne Britton and Rosemary Mellor

Tim Butler

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Alberta Andreotti is economic sociologist at the University of Milan, Department of Sociology and Social Research. Her main interests are in social networks and social capital, local welfare systems and social services, poverty and social exclusion, and the middle classes.

Rowland G. Atkinson is Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit at the University of Tasmania. He is an expert on urban change and social segregation, with a particular emphasis on the neglected political and moral connections between affluence and its impact on social and spatial problems. His research has focused on gentrification, social exclusion, area effects and gated communities, while dabbling in the social effects and order of sound in urban space.

Talja Blokland is Professor at the Delft University of Technology. She is author of Urban Bonds (Polity 2003) and specialises in ethnographic analyses of urban inequality.

Nadia Joanne Britton is Lecturer in Applied Sociology at the University of Sheffield.

Tim Butler is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at Kings College London. He is an expert on gentrification processes and social stratification, and his recent publications include London Calling (Berg 2003, with Garry Robson) and Understanding Social Inequality (Sage 2007, with Paul Watt).

Alexandra M. Curley is a Post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Urban Renewal and Housing at TU Delfts OTB Research Institute in the Netherlands. Her research interests include urban poverty, social policy, housing mobility, and social capital.

Fiona Devine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, where she was Head of Discipline until 2007. She is an expert on social stratification and mobility using qualitative methods and her recent work includes Class Practices (Cambridge 2005).

Peter Halfpenny is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, where he is Executive Director of the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS). Until 2006 he was first Head of the School of Social Sciences. His research interests are in e-science and philanthropic giving.

Bruce D. Haynes is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. He is an authority on race, ethnicity, and urban communities. His recent publications include Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (Yale University Press 2001).

Jesus Hernandez is a PhD student at the University of California, Davis. His dissertation research links housing credit markets and residential segregation to the current subprime mortgage crisis and social reproduction.

Patrick Le Gals is Directeur de Recherche at CNRS (National Scientific Centre for Research) at CEVIPOF (Centre for political research) and Professor of Sociology and public policy at Sciences Po. He has published widely on urban sociology (European Cities, Blackwell 2002), the sociology of public policy and regional political economy (Changing Governance of Local Economies in Europe, Oxford University Press 2004).

Rosemary Mellor was a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester until her untimely death in March 2001.

Floris Noordhoff was a PhD student at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research based at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are in poverty, social inequality and urban sociology.

Douglas Rae is Richard Ely Professor of Management and Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of City, Urbanism and its End (2003), and once served as Chief Administrative Officer of New Haven, Connecticut.

Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, where he is Co-director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). His recent publications include Culture and Class after Distinction (Routledge 2008, with Tony Bennett, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright) and Globalisation and Belonging (Sage 2005, with Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst).

Gindo Tampubolon is Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester.

Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, where he was Research Director of the School of Social Sciences and co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC) until 2007. He is an expert on the sociology of consumption and his recent publications include Trust in Food: An Institutional and Comparative Analysis

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