Date: Sunday, August 11

Time: 10:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Session 098: Accessible Cities
Room: Musset

Sponsors: Community, Research, and Practice
Sport, Leisure, and the Body

Organizer, Presider &

Discussant: Michael O. Johnston, William Penn University

Description: 

The sociological study of cities and urban life is one of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines. Urban sociologists’ study and examine the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments. This field of study focuses on things like poverty, racial residential segregation, economic development, migration and demographic trends, gentrification, homelessness, blight and crime, urban decline, and neighborhood changes and revitalization. Such critical insights provided by the analyses conducted by urban sociologists can be used to shape and guide urban planning and policymaking.

This regular session brings scholars together to talk about their research on the accessibility (and inaccessibility) of cities.

Papers:

“A Proposed Phenomenological Investigation of Exclusion to Blue and Green Spaces in Rural Cities,” Peder E. Schillemat, University of West Georgia

“Black Mecca, U.S.A: An in-depth Look at Race, Class, and Placemaking in Atlanta, Georgia,” Jonathan P. Grant, University of North Florida

“Reimagining Public Parks: Latinx Identity and Community Perceptions of Safety,” Ireri Bernal, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lillian Wynne Platten and Teresa Irene Gonzales, Loyola University Chicago

“The Journey towards Inclusive Tourism: Assessing Accessibility in Kathmandu, Nepal,” Ramesh Khanal, Saraswati Multiple Campus

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