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(In)Visible Boundaries: A Socio-Spatial Study of Public Spaces in Tehran
Başlık:
(In)Visible Boundaries: A Socio-Spatial Study of Public Spaces in Tehran
Yazar:
Jalili, Jaleh, author.
ISBN:
9780438051812
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 electronic resource (230 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: David Cunningham Committee members: Orkideh Behrouzan; Laura Miller; Chandler Rosenberger.
Özet:
This dissertation is a sociological analysis of how public spaces are used and understood by citizens of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Through a detailed study of social relations in eight carefully-chosen public spaces in Tehran, this project discusses how geographical conditions of cities shape social and cultural understandings of class, social and economic status, and socio-cultural coexistence and conflict. Tehran's socio-spatial structure, in which location corresponds with economic wealth and social status (i.e. the further north, the wealthier, with associated perceptions of more educated, modern, and urbane), provides an interesting case to explore a number of interrelated questions. I ask: How do people in Tehran use and understand public spaces that function beyond neighborhoods? How does geographical distribution of wealth in Tehran influence social functions of public spaces? How often do people cross the invisible boundaries of class and wealth in their use of space? Does the emergence of new public spaces and new means of transportation change social uses of public spaces? Does this mix social and economic classes? And how does it change the ways in which social groups interact and imagine themselves and each other? My interest is particularly in city-level public spaces---i.e. those spaces that function beyond neighborhoods and draw people from outside the immediate community---and how they mediate social relations and group interactions. Using a mixed methods approach, including onsite observations, survey data, deep open-ended interviews, and textual analysis, this project seeks to expand our understanding of social relations as they relate to both realities of urban life and perceived notions of socioeconomic class, inequality, and social change in the context of urban public spaces.
Four interrelated themes---perceptions and experiences of inequality, the spatial distribution of social ties, boundary negotiations, and identity processes---form the foundation of my arguments. The analyses of the collected data indicate that the respondents move long distances across the city to use a variety of public spaces, and that they are not bound to their neighborhoods in use of space. Recent urban developments, including new public spaces and the expansion of infrastructure and public transportation, have enabled the less privileged (in the south of the city) to move more freely and use public spaces in the north, resulting in a fairly mixed social landscape. I examine the implications of this increased mobility and mixing of social groups for the social ecology of the city and discuss how they influence underlying socioeconomic inequalities. Observing how social groups traverse spatial boundaries in a city that has become more accessible, I explore the ways in which social boundaries are patterned and symbolic boundaries are questioned or maintained, as spatial boundaries become more and more fluid, blurred, and negotiable.
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School code: 0021
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