Summary Advanced Urban Geography University Utrecht Joep Ewald
Summary Advanced Urban Geography
course
Auteur: Joep Ewald
Tutor: Bas Spierings
Academic Year: 2019-2020 sep – dec
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,Summary Advanced Urban Geography University Utrecht Joep Ewald
Content:
1. Lesson 1 ..................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1. Extra information during lecture ................................................................................................ 4
1.2 Mobilizing the new mobilities paradigm (Scheller & Urry, 2016) ........................................... 4
1.3. Beyond space (as we know it): Towards Temporally integrated geographies of
segregation, health and accessibility (Kwan, 2013) ........................................................................ 6
1.4. Social networks, mobile lives and social inequalities (Urry, 2011) ........................................ 7
1.5. The prism of everyday life: Towards a new research agenda for time geography (Neutens,
Schwanen, Witlox 2010) ..................................................................................................................... 8
1.6. Social reproduction and the time-geography of everyday life (Pred, 1981)........................ 10
2. Lesson 2 ................................................................................................................................... 12
2.1. Extra information during lecture .............................................................................................. 12
2.2. Towards a politics of mobility (Cresswell, 2009) ................................................................... 12
2.3. The sensory experiencing of urban design: the role of walking and perceptual memory
(Degen & Rose, 2012) ....................................................................................................................... 14
2.4. Walking and Rhythmicity: Sensing Urban Space (Wunderlich, 2008) ................................. 15
2.5. The socialites of everyday urban walking and the “right to the city” (Middleton, 2018) ... 16
2.6. Space of a key word (Harvey, 2004) ......................................................................................... 17
3. Lesson 3 ................................................................................................................................... 20
3.1. Extra information during lecture .............................................................................................. 20
3.2. The production of space through a shrine and vendetta in Manchester (Leary, 2011) ..... 20
3.3. Homeless women in public spaces: Strategies or resistance (Casey, Goudie & Reeve, 2008)
............................................................................................................................................................. 22
3.4. Parks for profit: The high line, growth machines and the uneven development of urban
public spaces (Loughran, 2005) ....................................................................................................... 23
3.5. Lefebvre and the right to the open city? (Shields, 2013) ....................................................... 24
3.6. Living with difference? The “cosmopolitan city” and Urban Reimaging in Manchester, UK
(Young, Diep and Drabble, 2005) .................................................................................................... 24
4. Lesson 4. .................................................................................................................................. 27
4.1. Notes lecture ............................................................................................................................... 27
4.2. Explaining migration: a critical view (Arango, 2000) ............................................................ 30
4.3. Networks, linkages and migration systems (Fawcett, 1989) ................................................ 32
4.4. Housing pathways: A postmodern analytical framework (Clapham, 2010) ........................ 33
4.5. Re-thinking residential mobility: linking lives through time and space (Coulter, van Ham &
Findlay (2016) ................................................................................................................................... 35
4.6. Residential relocations in the life course ................................................................................. 37
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5. Lesson 5 ................................................................................................................................... 40
5.1. Extra information during lecture .............................................................................................. 40
5.2. Neighbourhood diversity, metropolitan constraints and household migration (Crowder,
Paris and Scouth, 2012) .................................................................................................................... 42
5.3. Neighbourhoods trajectories of low-income U.S. households: An application of sequence
analysis (Lee, Smith and Galster, 2017) .......................................................................................... 44
5.4. Together but apart: Do US whites live in racially diverse cities and neighbourhoods?
(Lichter, Parisi, Taquino. 2017) ....................................................................................................... 46
5.5. New perspectives on ethnic segregation over time and space. A domains approach (van
Ham, Tammaru, 2016) ...................................................................................................................... 47
6. Lesson 6 ................................................................................................................................... 49
6.1. Extra information during lecture .............................................................................................. 49
6.2. The mechanism(s) if neighbourhood effects: Theory, Evidence and Policy implications
(Galser, 2012) .................................................................................................................................... 51
6.3. Between spaces and flows: towards a new agenda for neighbourhood research in an age of
mobility (Van kempen & Wissink, 2014) ........................................................................................ 53
6.4. Where, when, why and for whom do residential context matter? Moving away from the
dichotomous understanding of neighbourhood effects (Sharkey, Faber2014) ......................... 54
6.5. Territorial stigmatization in action (Wacquant, Slater, Borges Pereira 2014) .................... 55
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1. Lesson 1
1.1. Extra information during lecture
Lecture by Dick Ettema
This lecture was about time geography and the mobilities turn. First, he starts by outlining some
context about the matter of the place-based approach and the time-geography approach. The
course is divided into two different categories. The first it the daily life perspective that looks at
the context of the city through the lens of the human beings and daily patterns of people living in
it. In terms of time-geography, this is done by looking at the Spatio-temporal context of the city,
those are most noticeably the city itself with its places and the infrastructure that connects it all.
The place where you live, where you work or study has an outcome on your life in terms of
exclusion, health issues, well-being, safety and resilience.
The place-based approach
The neighbourhood where you are living has an effect on you. Those are called the neighbourhood
effects mechanisms by Galster 2012. He argues that the place where you live has consequences on
the social interactions you are having, for instance, contact with your neighbours, meetings with
other people and social cohesion. Furthermore, neighbourhoods tend to affect the environmental
exposure you are having over time. For instance the amount of noise pollution and bad sleep
associated with that or exposure to toxic materials. Thirdly, there is a geographical standpoint you
can consider when looking at neighbourhoods, for example, the accessibility of the neighbourhood
in terms of work opportunities or amenities. Lastly, the neighbourhood has an effect on
institutional opportunities, such as schools, but also stigmatization and disinvestments.
The place where you live has an effect on your daily behaviours and your life course. For example,
if you live in a bad neighbourhood, you might be less likely to have a job or get a job. If a lot of
people in the neighbourhood do not have jobs, they also can not help you with their network to
lay connections for you to get a job. Dutch people are more likely to be in a sports club. But if you
are in a neighbourhood with a lot of non-western immigrants the change is also less likely to be in
a sports club.
Limitations of the place-based contextual approaches I (Kwan, 2013)
Hardly anyone stays at home the whole day. So you are exposed to different contexts all day which
also leads to other opportunities. For instance in terms of social exclusion, not every minute of the
day you are within a society with 100% white people. You might also go to work and there are
50% black and 50% white people. The same goes for environmental exposure or accessibility as
a whole.
1.2 Mobilizing the new mobilities paradigm (Scheller & Urry, 2016)
“The aim of this article is to show both the impact and the reach of the new mobilities paradigm,
and the crucial applied research questions where it can make the greatest contributions” (p.21).
The article speaks of the new mobilities paradigm as a new stage in mobility research and applied
mobility policies. We speak of a paradigm when within a scientific community anomalous “facts”
don’t make sense within the existing points of view. So the new mobilities paradigm relates to a
shift in the way policymakers and mobility researches think about mobility as a whole.
This new mobility paradigm seeks its fundamental recasting in social science. Mobility isn’t only
about connectivity and solving traffic flows, but it is rather about the social aspects that are related
to mobility and the mobility network. The shift is being characterised by:
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