Colby R King
Biographic Data
| ID | 6096381 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colby R King |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colby R |
| FAMILY NAME | King |
| SIGNATURE | KING C R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own
Everyday public sociology
Bringing sociology to the public means sharing sociological concepts, research and perspectives in spaces beyond traditional academic boundaries. This chapter examines the Everyday Sociology Blog as one form of public sociology. The ESB is one of the longest running group sociology blogs, with more than seven million hits, having published more than 1,000 posts since 2007. A core sentiment of the ESB is that sociology is for the public. As Karen …
Urban Frontier
Urban frontier refers to spaces in or around a city in which (re)settlement and new forms of economic development are emerging, often as a result of incoming capital investment associated with an often racialized political struggle between long‐standing and newly settled residents. Turner and Wade were among the first to describe the urban frontier. Smith's examinations of gentrification revealed how the frontier terminology invokes images of man…
Image of the City
The image of the city is an ever‐evolving representation of a city's character, unique for each observer, and is socially constructed based on the observer's mental maps of both objectively and subjectively observed characteristics of the city. A term originally coined by Kevin Lynch, the “image of the city” is comprised of both the stationary elements of design and the mobile elements represented by the people and social activities within the ci…
Urban Frontier
Urban frontier refers to spaces in or around a city in which (re)settlement and new forms of economic development are emerging, often as a result of incoming capital investment associated with an often racialized political struggle between long‐standing and newly settled residents. Turner and Wade were among the first to describe the urban frontier. Smith's examinations of gentrification revealed how the frontier terminology invokes images of man…
Image of the City
The image of the city is an ever‐evolving representation of a city's character, unique for each observer, and is socially constructed based on the observer's mental maps of both objectively and subjectively observed characteristics of the city. A term originally coined by Kevin Lynch, the “image of the city” is comprised of both the stationary elements of design and the mobile elements represented by the people and social activities within the ci…
Everyday public sociology
Bringing sociology to the public means sharing sociological concepts, research and perspectives in spaces beyond traditional academic boundaries. This chapter examines the Everyday Sociology Blog as one form of public sociology. The ESB is one of the longest running group sociology blogs, with more than seven million hits, having published more than 1,000 posts since 2007. A core sentiment of the ESB is that sociology is for the public. As Karen …
Introduction to the Special Issue—A Class of Our Own
Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public Spaces through Art (2 works) · Social science (2 works)