Reclaiming Cities as Spaces of Middle Class Parenthood

Johanna Lilius author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Verlag, Singapore

Published:24th Sep '18

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For nearly a century families have been out-migrating to suburbs and peri-urban areas. In this book, Johanna Lilius conceptualizes the relatively recent phenomenon of families choosing to live in the inner city. Drawing on a range of qualitative data, the book offers a holistic approach to simultaneously understanding changes within parenting practices and changes connected to city development. The book explains not only why families choose to stay in the inner city and how they use the city in their everyday lives, but also how families change the landscape of contemporary cities, and how the family is, and has been, perceived in urban planning and policy-making. The Nordic perspective provided by Lilius makes this book an important contribution in helping understand inner city change outside the Anglo-American context, and will appeal to an international audience.

“Urban policy analysts … will find this book a helpful source of hypotheses, literature and research resources, and ideas about the pull of cities for millennials not only in Scandinavia but well beyond.” (Jeffrey A. Raffel, Journal of Urban Affairs, July 23, 2019)

ISBN: 9789811090097

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171 pages

1st ed. 2019