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Child abuse --- Neighborhoods --- Communities --- Prevention. --- Social aspects. --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Community --- Social groups

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Neighbors and Neighborhoods: Living Together in the German-Speaking World is a bilingual collection of nine essays on culture, film, language, literature, and theory. The essays in this collection address questions of community and cohesion in the modern German-speaking world, a complex sociolinguistic community that is no longer defined by territorial boundaries but that remains, in many respects, a neighborhood. How can neighborliness be possible for this world in an age of mass migration a...

German language --- Multiculturalism --- Neighborhoods --- Sociolinguistics --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Social aspects. --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school)

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The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries' economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation's culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural concerns, and in the process also impact the neighbourhoods of the city. Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city. A multi-sited comparative approach is taken in studying local action in five important cities (Bangkok, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei) in Pacific Asia. With site selection in these five cities guided by local experts, neighbourhood issues associated with the fieldsites are explored through interviews with a variety of stakeholders involved in neighourhood building and change. The book enables comparisons across a number of key issues confronting the city: heritage (Bangkok and Taipei), local community involved provisioning of amenities (Seoul and Singapore), placemaking versus place marketing (Bangkok and Hong Kong). Cities are becoming increasingly important as centers for politics, citizen engagement and governance. The collaborative efforts city governments establish with local communities become an important way to address the liveability of cities.

Cities and towns --- Neighborhoods --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- East Asia, neighbourhood action, city government, sociable amenities.

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One feature of contemporary urban life has been the widespread transformation, by middle-class resettlement, of older inner-city neighbourhoods formerly occupied by working-class and underclass communities. Often termed 'gentrification', this process has been a focus of intense debate in urban study and in the social sciences.This case study explores processes of change in Toronto's inner neighbourhoods in recent decades, integrating an understanding of political economy with an appreciation of the culture of everyday urban life. The author locates Toronto's gentrification in a context of both global and local patterns of contemporary city-building, focusing on the workings of the property industry and of the local state, the rise and decline of modernist planning, and the transition to postindustrial urbanism.Drawing on a series of in-depth interviews among a segment of Toronto's inner-city, middle-class population, Caulfield argues that the seeds of gentrification have included patterns of critical social practice and that the 'gentrified' landscape is highly paradoxical, embodying both the emerging dominance of a deindustrialized urban economy and an immanent critique of contemporary city-building.

Gentrification --- Neighborhood --- Urban renewal --- Sociology, Urban --- Model cities --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- City planning --- Land use, Urban --- Urban policy --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Toronto (Ont.) --- History. --- Neighborhoods --- Ontario --- Toronto (Ontario) --- Sociology [Urban ] --- History

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In this history of Cleveland's black middle class, Todd Michney uncovers the creative ways that a nascent community established footholds in areas outside the overcrowded, inner-city neighbourhoods to which most African Americans were consigned. Michney offers a valuable counterweight to histories that have focused on racial conflict and black poverty.

African American neighborhoods --- Neighborhoods --- Social mobility --- Middle class African Americans --- Afro-American neighborhoods --- Neighborhoods, African American --- Ethnic neighborhoods --- Neighborhood --- Neighbourhoods --- Communities --- Mobility, Social --- Sociology --- African Americans --- Middle class --- History --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Housing