Mixed-Occupancy Housing in London A Living Tapestry /

• Main Authors: Rosbrook-Thompson, James (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Armstrong, Gary (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
• Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Ethnology.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Social Anthropology.; Cultural Anthropology.

This book recounts an ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London, refocusing the scholarly conversation around social housing in the U.K. after the 1980 Housing Act. Rather than examining the long-term consequences of 'Right to Buy,' such as shortages...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: A Living Tapestry?
• 2. Setting the Scene
• 3. Mixed Occupancy - Mixed Occupations?
• 4. Custodians of (Dis)order: The Pusher, the Publican and the Matriarch
• 5. Rubbing Along: Proximity and Understandings of Difference
• 6. Habitable Space? The Price of Gentrification
• 7. Mater out of Place? Women, Mobility, Livelihood and Power
• 8. Conclusion: The Tapestry Unpicked?.