Care and the City : Encounters with Urban Studies (Paperback)

Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements PART I Conceptualizing Care: Encounters, Critique, and Commons 1. Care, Uncare, and the City Angelika Gabauer, Sabine Knierbein, Nir Cohen, Henrik Lebuhn, Kim Trogal and Tihomir Viderman 2. Critical Reflections on Care Ali Madanipour 3. Care from the Beginning: Birthing Collective Origins, Interdependent Cities, and New Community Economies Katharine McKinnon, Stephen Healy and Kelly Dombroski PART II Social Inequalities, Uneven Space, and Care 4. Introduction: Social Inequalities, Uneven Space, and Care Nir Cohen and Sabine Knierbein 5. Cartographies of Care: Urban Development in Mexico in Response to a Graying America Samuel Maddox 6. Turning the Key: How the Pink Passkey Has Shaped the Landscape of (Un)Equal Opportunity for LGBT-Friendly Eldercare Provision in the Netherlands Roos Pijpers 7. ‘We Are Here to Care’: Gendered Urban Safety in Argentina Anna Bednarczyk 8. Healthy and Caring Cities: Accessibility for All and the Role of Urban Spaces in Re-Activating Capabilities Elena Marchigiani 9. Examining Everyday Outdoor Practices in Suburban Public Space: The Case for an Expanded Definition of Care as an Analytical Framework Samantha Biglieri PART III Everyday Struggles and Contestations Around Care 10. Introduction: Everyday Struggles and Contestations Around Care Kim Trogal and Tihomir Viderman 11. ‘Respect Towards Old People’: The Commodification of Ethnicity in Migrant Care Work in Germany Caterina Rohde-Abuba 12. Care for the Uncared (for): Slum Redevelopment and the Emerging Challenges of Accessing Care for the Urban Poor in Delhi Niroopa Subrahmanyam 13. Public Space and Children: Who Cares and Who Takes Care of? Cesar Matos e Silva and Robertha Barros 14. Careful Rearrangements: Experiments with Neglected ‘Things’ in Architecture Micol Rispoli 15. Infrastructures from Below: Self-Reproduction and Common Struggle in and Beyond Athens in Crisis Isabel Gutierrez Sanchez PART IV New Care Arrangements and Civic Innovation 16. Introduction: New Care Arrangements and Civic Innovation Angelika Gabauer and Henrik Lebuhn 17. Geographies of Aging: Hidden Dimensions of Care in Stockholm, Vienna, and Zurich Angelika Gabauer, Marie Glaser, Liv Christensen, Judith M. Lehner, Jing Jing and Stefan Lundberg 18. The Toronto Public Library as a Site of Urban Care, Social Repair, and Maintenance in the Smart City Teresa Abbruzzese and Antony Riley 19. Heritage as a Matter of Care, and Conservation as Caring for the Matter Loes Veldpaus and Hanna Szemz? 20. Care as an Act of Inequality? Complex Social Relations Within the Refugee Camp in Brussels’ Maximilian Park Throughout 2015 Rivka Saltiel 21. Digital Care Spaces: The Particularities of a Digital Home Care Platform Eva Mos Index