The Places Where Community Is Practiced
How Store Owners and Their Businesses Build Neighborhood Social Life
Author(s)
Steigemann, Anna
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Social sciences; Sociology, Urban; Human geography; Urban geographyPublisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
http://www.springernature.com/oabooksPublication date and place
Wiesbaden, 2019Series
Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft,Classification
Sociology
Human geography
Urban and municipal planning and policy