@article{Rabiei_Golrokh_Bahrami_2021, title={Class and Urban Public Space Consumption: A Typology in Isfahan, Iran}, volume={22}, url={https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JUCR/article/view/252178}, DOI={10.14456/jucr.2021.1}, abstractNote={<p>This paper, adopting an interpretive approach, focuses on the spatiality of class to describe how social class represents itself through public space consumption. The paper presupposes public space consumption as a lived experience by class and explores it through analyzing the narratives of citizens in the city of Isfahan, Iran. According to Bourdieu’s notion of social space, four different economic-cultural positions are purposefully selected as under-studied social categories. Cultural (occupation, professional skills and education) and economic attributes (income, house ownership and the neighborhood where they live) are considered for the categorization. Applying a qualitative content analysis, this paper uses semi-structured in-depth interviews as the basis of a thematic analysis. Comparing the identified themes for the four social categories, this study formulates four consumption patterns, comprising transient, purposeful, fluid and aggressive consumption. A class- specific typology of public space consumption is thus proposed which encompasses the four studied social categories in Isfahan.</p>}, journal={Journal of Urban Culture Research}, author={Rabiei, Kamran and Golrokh, Shamin and Bahrami, Zahra}, year={2021}, month={Jun.}, pages={3–19} }