Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World

How do our everyday experiences and environments inform who we are? Covering hot topics, from virtual spaces to migration, this book connects daily life and identity with broader structural and global processes. With vivid examples highlighting the interdependence of place and society, it is a key text across the social sciences.

HARVEY PERKINS Professor of Planning and Director of an Urban Transformation Research Initiative at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and Adjunct Professor in Human Geography at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He has over 20 years experience as an urban and regional researcher and consultant throughout the UK and USA.
 
DAVID THORNS Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Science Research Centre at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has over 30 years experience as an urban researcher and has published many books, including The Transformation of Cities (2002).

Introduction
PART I: ESTABLISHING A FRAMEWORK
Place, Identity and Everyday Life
Everyday Life in a Globalizing World
PART II: ORGANIZING AND LIVING IN OUR EVERYDAY WORLDS
Cities and Region
Houses and Homes
Virtual Places and Spaces
Places of Consumption
PART III: A FINITE WORLD?
Sustaining the Places in which we Live
Sustainable Housing, Neighbourhoods and Communities
Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World Revisited