This book demonstrates how local contexts of urbanization and cultures of work are intimately meshed together. Each chapter explores a discrete dimension of the way people organize their working lives in post-industrial cities, taking close account of the social and environmental impact of this balancing act. The book features cross-national and inter-city comparative household level research, highlighting significant contradictions underpinning the nature of production, consumer expectation, work-life balance and urban environmental quality.
Author(s): Helen Jarvis
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 288
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures, Photos, Tables and Boxes......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
A day in the life......Page 16
Two similar extremes?......Page 19
Three spheres of restructuring......Page 20
Flexible labour......Page 22
Gender dynamics......Page 24
Urban split......Page 26
Four conceptual themes......Page 27
Everyday life and the material city......Page 29
Practical limits to growth......Page 31
Time-space-matter......Page 33
Neo-liberalism and local cultures of resistance......Page 35
Summary and structure of this book......Page 36
Research approach......Page 41
Successful cities......Page 44
Urbanism meets environmentalism......Page 45
The UK urban village movement......Page 48
The US Congress of New Urbanism......Page 50
Critique of the new urbanism......Page 52
Five city postcards......Page 54
International comparisons......Page 68
Support for working families......Page 69
Urban planning systems......Page 79
Finding the families......Page 83
Summary......Page 86
Introduction......Page 89
Let's go to San Francisco......Page 93
Variations on a theme of gentrification......Page 96
A matrix of livelihood......Page 99
The coder, the janitor, his wife and her career......Page 105
Bridging the digital, cultural divide......Page 109
Managing life away from the loft......Page 113
Willing workers or greedy firms?......Page 115
Summary......Page 118
Introduction......Page 121
Flexibility for whom?......Page 123
Preference, biography, entitlement......Page 126
Understanding flexibility from a household perspective......Page 131
Career egalitarian......Page 133
Resist the treadmill......Page 137
Keep a lid on the hours......Page 139
All hands to the pump......Page 142
The path of least resistance......Page 144
Comparative perspectives......Page 147
Minding the gaps......Page 149
Summary......Page 153
Introduction......Page 156
Social capital......Page 159
Neo-liberal inequalities......Page 161
Housing ladders and care chains......Page 165
Housing affordability......Page 166
Self reliance......Page 170
A foothold in the city......Page 175
Time efficiency......Page 177
Childcare shortage......Page 178
Connection through division......Page 180
Summary......Page 182
Energy consumption and time-squeeze......Page 187
The problem of spatial mismatch......Page 189
Competing identifications......Page 193
Environmental awareness in five cities, two nations......Page 195
Dispelling the myth that preference makes practice......Page 202
Identifying preference for compact neighbourhood design......Page 204
Conflict between stated preferences and revealed practices......Page 208
Co-ordination dilemmas......Page 210
School choice......Page 212
Transport failure......Page 216
Summary......Page 219
Dysfunction......Page 221
Back to the main themes......Page 225
The tyranny of small decisions......Page 227
The essence of small and slow......Page 230
Lessons from comparative research......Page 232
Collective responsibility......Page 235
Concluding remarks......Page 236
Appendix A Sampling Frame Specifications......Page 239
Appendix B The UK and USA Systems of Planning in Outline......Page 241
Appendix C Spouse Labour Market Combinations in Four Cities......Page 243
Appendix D Potted Biography for Sharon and Jamie Fuller – Intersections of Housing, Employment, Gender and Generation......Page 246
Notes......Page 248
Bibliography......Page 254
C......Page 283
D......Page 284
F......Page 285
H......Page 286
L......Page 287
O......Page 288
S......Page 289
T......Page 290
W......Page 291
Z......Page 292
