Inequality and Uncertainty

Chapter 1 Cities as the strategic terrain of research on contemporary inequalities and uncertainty.- Part I Urban inequalities and uncertainty as conceptual challenges.- Chapter 2 Social and Spatial Uncertainty and Inequality - The Refiguration of Spaces as Today's Challenge for Cities.- Chapter 3 Cosmopolitanism vs identity and local belonging?.- Chapter 4 The Digital Natives and the Future City: Contradictions and Ambivalences.- Part II Revisiting social change and gentrification.- Chapter 5 Fear, Disgust and Dignity: The securitisation of everyday life and the new revanchism against the urban subaltern in a working-class area of Madrid.- Chapter 6 Protest and taste: socio-spatial restructuring of Moda.- Chapter 7 Urban inequalities and egalitarian scenes: relationality in urban placemaking and identity-building and paradox of egalitarianism.- Chapter 8 Outcomes of Urban Requalification under Neoliberalism: A critical appraisal of the SRU model.- Part III Urban diversity and boundaries.- Chapter 9 Feeling safe, defining crime and urban youth in Berlin's inner city: An exploration of the construction of 'unsafety' and 'youth' as symbolic violence.- Chapter 10 Trust thy neighbour? Interpersonal trust in twelve ethnically diverse European neighbourhoods.- Chapter 11 Refugees and Borders: Simmel's contributions on space and strangeness to reflect on the condition of contemporary refugees in Europe.- Chapter 12 The use of factor analysis in urban research: the case of the metropolitan area of Bilbao.- Part IV Answers for urban inequalities.- Chapter 13 From "chabolas" to invisible squats: a reflection on the residential informality evolution in Madrid.- Chapter 14 Urban scenes, cultural context exposure and contemporary health lifestyles: A multilevel analysis of Spanish sub-municipal areas.- Part V Environmental turn in urban politics.- Chapter 15 Urban Climate Governance in the Amazon.- Chapter 16 Greening the urban politics: the conflicts over tree felling in

Marta Smagacz-Poziemska is professor at the Institute of Sociology of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
M. Victoria Gómez is senior lecturer at University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Patricia Pereira is a researcher in urban sociology at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences, Portugal.
Laura Guarino is a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at the University of Genoa, Italy and research assistant at the University of Aix-Marseille, France.
Sebastian Kurtenbach is interim professor for social policy at the University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany.
Juan José Villalón Ogáyar is senior lecturer at the University National of Distance Education in Madrid, Spain.