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Walking in the european City This page has been left blank intentionally Walking in the european City Quotidian Mobility and urban ethnography edited by tiMothy Shortell Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA evriCk BroWn Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, USA © timothy Shortell, evrick Brown and the Contributors 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. timothy Shortell and evrick Brown have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. published by ashgate publishing limited ashgate publishing Company Wey Court east 110 Cherry Street union road Suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, vt 05401-3818 Surrey, gu9 7pt uSa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Walking in the european city : quotidian mobility and urban ethnography / [edited] by timothy Shortell and evrick Brown. pages cm includes bibliographical references and index. iSBn 978-1-4724-1616-2 (hardback : alk. paper) – iSBn 978-1-4724-1618-6 (ebook) – iSBn 978-1-4724-1617-9 (epub) 1. Cities and towns–europe. 2. City and town life– europe. 3. Sociology, urban–europe. 4. Walking–europe. i. Shortell, timothy. ii. Brown, evrick. ht131.W35 2014 307.76094–dc23 2013050265 iSBn 9781472416162 (hbk) iSBn 9781472416186 (ebk – pDF) iSBn 9781472416179 (ebk – epuB) II printed in the united kingdom by henry ling limited, at the Dorset press, Dorchester, Dt1 1hD Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Notes on Contributors xi 1 Introduction: Walking in the European City 1 Timothy Shortell and Evrick Brown PART I ThEoRETICAl ElAboRATIons 2 The Flâneur: A Way of Walking, Exploring and Interpreting the City 21 Giampaolo Nuvolati 3 The Act of Walking: Exemplifying Danish Pedestrian Culture 41 Maria Quvang Harck Vestergaard, Mette Olesen and Pernille Falborg Helmer 4 Moving Through the City with strangers? Public Transport as a Significant Type of Urban Public Space 57 Giulio Mattioli 5 Walking Between Planes: Why Hypermobile People Take to Walking in the City 75 Sonia Lavadinho 6 Mobility in Thessaloniki: The Greek Economic Crisis and the Transformation of Mobility 91 Eleni Sideri PART II ViSUal MeTHodS 7 drifting in Chinatowns: Toward a Situationist analysis of Polyglot Urban Spaces in New York, Paris, and london 109 Timothy Shortell and Konrad Aderer vi Walking in the European City 8 Walking Through Instead of Flying over: A Way to see the Flux of Urbanization in istanbul and other Places? 129 Martin Kohler 9 Walking in Search of Migrants in european Cities 153 Jerome Krase 10 Walking the Stream: Prague Cityscape and the Research Guided by the Water 173 Karolína Pauknerová and Petr Gibas PART III EThnoGRAPhIC APPRoAChEs 11 Gdje si? Walking as a Reflexive Practice 191 Giulia Carabelli 12 Challenging the Hegemonic Gaze on Foot: Walk-alongs as a Useful Method in Gentrification Research 207 Helena Holgersson 13 A Walk Around the block: Creating spaces for Everyday encounters 225 Hilary Ramsden 14 Walking Through Urban Transformation: Fieldwork in the Northeast of Paris 245 Federica Gatta and Maria Anita Palumbo References 263 Index 291 List of Figures Unless otherwise specified, figures are the property of the author/s of each chapter. 1.1 The pedestrian’s dilemma in London 13 2.1 Piacenza and the flâneur path and stops 35 2.2 The boulevard close to the public garden, Robert Baden-Powell (Piacenza) 36 2.3 The intersection of Via Giuseppe Mazzini and Via San Rocchino (Piacenza) 38 2.4 Piazza del Borgo (Piacenza) 39 All figures in Chapter 2 are © Khaled Morgan, reproduced with permission 3.1 The most chosen picture from the respondents’ picture selection 50 3.2 One of the historical environments where many of the respondents would like to walk 51 7.1 Main St and Roosevelt Ave, Flushing 118 7.2 Basement commercial spaces, Bowne St near Roosevelt Ave, Flushing 120 7.3 Chinese shoppers on Rue de Belleville 121 7.4 Public market on Boulevard de Belleville 122 7.5 Gerrard Street pedestrian mall, London 124 7.6 Lisle Street, London 124 8.1 Map of the metropolitan region of Istanbul with indicated location of photographs 138 8.2 Images from walk between 3km and 19km 139 8.3 Images from walk between 25km and 34km 142 8.4 Images from walk between 40km and 50km 144 8.5 Images from walk between 51km and 59km 146 8.6 Images from walk between 60km and 66km 148 8.7 Images from walk between 69km and 72km 150 9.1 Upscale part of Passage Jouffroy, Paris 162 9.2 Traditional part of Passage Jouffroy, Paris 163 9.3 Italian (popolino) street merchant, Naples 165 viii Walking in the European City 9.4 Male Afro-Italian street merchant, Naples 166 9.5 “Bollywood” video store, Oslo 168 9.6 Poster invitation to Iftar Dinner, Oslo 169 10.1 Course of the Rokytka through Prague 178 10.2 Lost in the city: workmen’s colony and romantic nature sceneries 181 10.3 Back and front 182 10.4 Striking contrasts of old and new, luxurious and poor 183 12.1 Map of the Gustaf Dalén area in 2001 210 List of Tables 2.1 The oxymora of the flâneur 23 2.2 Ethnographer and flâneur 26 2.3 Masculine and feminized concepts of tourism 28 3.1 Presentation of the respondents, their life situation and the urban context they live in 45 4.1 Dimensions of travel experience across the public–private divide 64 4.2 Examples of items in the SSMM scale 65 4.3 The four attitude scales retained after principal component analysis 69 4.4 Cluster profile and cluster size (mean and per cent values) 71 4.5 Frequency distribution across the clusters, by gender and residence area (per cent values) 71
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