Students' sense of belonging is known to be strongly associated with academic achievement
and a successful life at university. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of belonging …

Public spaces in cities of today are characterized by socio-spatial inequalities that often
result in restricted mobility for, and exclusion of, marginalized populations—inequalities that …

Belonging is often overlooked in its relationship to society and social change, and yet it
forms the bedrock of how we relate to the world around us. Through the work of Marx …

One of the central interests of sociology is the relationship between self and society, and in
particular how social change affects individuality, constraining or liberating the selves that …

In this latest edition of Key Thinkers on Space and Place, editors Phil Hubbard and Rob
Kitchin provide us with a fully revised and updated text that highlights the work of over 65 …

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.
Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions …

The purpose of this paper is to discuss new forms of citizenship in globalized cities from a
gendered and feminist perspective and to connect them to women's everyday life and to …

What I would call 'popular design history', the kind that fills the pages of more colourful and
probably more sellable commodities of bookshops, continued to present design as the …

How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being'cool'? Jonathan Ilan presents
a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world–its …

" Brands and logos are all around us-from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy, to
the advertisements which cover our cities and the celebrities created by the media. We …