City Public Space And Body The Embodied Experience Of Urban Life

City Public Space and Body offers a timely and interdisciplinary examination of how bodies experience shape and are shaped by urban life particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together contributions from scholars artists and practitioners across diverse geographies the book explores the entangled relationships between urban space embodiment and publicness through a variety of methodological lenses including ethnography visual and performative arts and critical urban theory. The book highlights underexplored themes such as gendered vulnerability spatial justice post-pandemic public space and marginalized urban bodies in both Global North and Global South contexts. By focusing on lived experience and embodied methodologies the book challenges dominant urban narratives and contributes fresh perspectives on space care power and resistance. It will benefit readers seeking to rethink cities not merely as physical or functional entities but as affective and contested terrains of social life. Designed for researchers students and professionals in urban studies sociology planning architecture gender studies and cultural geography this collection foregrounds the bodily and sensory dimensions of urban encounters spatial politics and everyday life. |City Public Space and Body The Embodied Experience of Urban Life