The Journey Begins

Thanks for joining us! The heading of this first post is WordPress’ default choice. It’s probaly best to tailor blog content to our particular needs but here the default fits this blog, though. The blog reflects the experiences of staff and students taking part in the University of Derby Sociology module 5SL520 Urban Sociology. The module links the lives of urban dwellers and wider social processes: globalisation, migration, gentrification, urban planning, architecture, utopias and dystopias, governance, and the right to the city. Our engagements with urban spaces are defined by journeys – to, from, and through – and this blog is dedicted to providing everyone contributing to the module with a space to record our multiple journeys

The act of walking is to the urban system what the speech act is to language or to the statements uttered – Michael de Certau tr. Steven Rendall The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press 1984, 97)