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Neighborhood satisfaction in large housing estates of Central and East European cities: insights from Novi Sad, Serbia
There is an extensive body of literature exploring the changes that large housing estates (LHE) in Central and East European (CEE) cities have...
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Effects of housing layout and perceived behavioral control over social distancing in relation between social isolation and psychological distress during pandemic of COVID-19
Due to the results of the COVID-19 epidemic on health, the positive effect of social distancing has been highlighted. Nevertheless, the effect of...
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For DYee… Walking in These Shoes
This is Derek’s story, and I share this with you as I wear a pair of black suede shoes he had gifted me. Originally written to pay homage to my...
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Art districts—A reflection on the fate of Chinese cities
This chapter describes my experiences in the field in several of Shanghai’sShanghai art districts, including West BundWest Bund, the former French...
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They must live somewhere! The geographical dimension of residualized social rented housing in urban Norway
The residualization of public rented housing is a prevalent phenomenon throughout Europe, and strongly present in the small and strongly means-tested...
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Why Housing Is Not Affordable in Kigali: A Fieldwork Analysis on How Urban Governance Inhibits Housing Affordability in Rwanda’s Capital
Housing affordability has emerged as a critical issue in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, due to growing pressures of urbanization. However, current...
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The impact of housing environments on social connection: an ethnographic investigation on quality of life for older adults with care needs
The increase in the aging population who require care has created a growing demand for housing that can support their independence and wellbeing. As...
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Urban Structure, Housing Prices and the Double Role of Amenity: A Study of Nan**g, China
The skyrocketing housing prices in Chinese metropolises have generated broad concerns. Recent studies have moved beyond hedonic approaches...
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Feeling Unsettled in the Field: Emotions and the Field Researcher
This chapter focuses on the significance of emotions in fieldwork. It explores countertransference phenomena and radical empiricism as a...
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The Next-Door Migrant: Autoethnography of Everyday Home Encounters across Difference
Homemaking as a process can involve different generations of migrants, connecting multiple stories and scales of mobility: local, national,...
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The Inside and Outside of High-Rise Social Housing: The Broken Institution
This article is based on an ethnographic report of a long-term artistic workplace in the inside world of a social high-rise ensemble. The communal...
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Settlement and Rental Housing Experiences Among Recent Immigrants in the Suburbs of Vancouver: Burnaby, Richmond, and Surrey
The suburbanization of immigrants in Canada is a relatively recent phenomenon, and these suburban settlement experiences and residential patterns are...
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What Have We Learned from the Impact of the Pandemic on Our Relationship with Nature? The Importance of Views from Home
Urban residents commonly spend a considerable proportion of their time indoors, and it is, therefore, important to pay particular attention to the...
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Immigrant Homemakers
In this chapter, I capture the translocal and transcultural practices of the Indian immigrants in Germany within the specific contexts of housing,...
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Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression
This clinical case study presents the case of a Latina Veteran experiencing psychosis and draws on eclectic theoretical sources, including...
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The Mental Cost of Food Insecurity among LGBTQ+Americans
This study employs insights from food justice scholarship to develop a theoretical framework aimed at comprehending the intersections of food...
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The History of Teotihuacan Through the Eyes of Women Scholars
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, more than 60 women have dedicated their research to the ancient city of Teotihuacan, located in Central...
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Social Justice and the Right to Housing as a Transformative Vision: American and Global Examples
This chapterThe Right to Housing focuses on housing and its implications for administration of social justice. In the first section, the chapter...
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Towards a multimethod approach for film geography: a case study of Los Angeles’ Nate Starkman Building
This paper introduces a multi-method approach for Film Geography that intertwines spatial analysis, cartography, textual analysis, discourse...
