Contents

pp v-vi

Figures

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-xi

Preface

pp xii-xiv

Introduction: How the other half lives

pp 1-8

Part I - Structural inequalities

pp 9-11

1 - Emergence to clearance: The housing question in the district of Ancoats

pp 12-30

2 - Abandonment to financialisation: Ancoats and the ongoing housing question

pp 31-49

3 - Austerity and the local state: Governing and politicising ‘actually existing austerity’ in a post-democratic city

pp 50-65

4 - ‘They don’t know how angry I am’: The slow violence of austerity Britain

pp 66-80

Part II - Situated inequalities

pp 81-83

5 - Iconic architecture: Seduction and subversion

pp 84-99

6 - Catcalls and cobblestones: Gendered limits on women walking

pp 100-115

7 - Inequality in elite neighbourhoods: A case study from central London

pp 116-131

8 - Discrimination in ‘receptive cities’?: Voices from Brighton and Bologna

pp 132-146

Part III - Interrelated inequalities

pp 147-149

9 - The Sunday Times Rich List and the myth of the self-made man

pp 150-161

10 - Victims and agents: The representation of refugees among British volunteers active in the refugee support sector

pp 162-177

11 - Entwined stories: Privileged family migration, differential inclusion and shifting geographies of belonging

pp 178-192

12 - ‘Milan doesn’t want us to be comfortable’: Differential inclusion of refugees in Milan

pp 193-207

Conclusion: Highs and lows – breaching social and spatial boundaries

pp 208-221

Index

pp 222-226