The urban sociology reader /
The urban sociology reader /
edited by Jan Lin and Christopher Mele.
- ix, 363 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- The Routledge urban reader series .
- Routledge urban reader series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Community and society / The metropolis and mental life / Urbanism as a way of life / Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life : a reevaluation of definitions / Theories of urbanism / Human ecology / The growth of the city : an introduction to a research project / The natural areas of the city / Sentiment and symbolism as ecological variables / The city as a growth machine / Los Angeles and the Chicago school : invitation to a debate / The cost of racial and class exclusion in the inner city / Segregation and the making of the underclass / Urban outcasts : stigma and division in the black American ghetto and the French urban periphery / The immigrant enclave : theory and empirical examples / Men without property : the tramp's classification and use of urban space / City spatial structure, women's household work, and national urban policy / 'Race,' space, and power : the survival strategies of working poor women / Gender and space : lesbians and gay man in the city / Freeing South Africa : the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto / The world city hypothesis / The urban impact of economic globalization / Power in place : retheorizing the local and the global / City life : West African communities in New York / Globalization and the revalorizing of ethnic places in immigration gateway cities / Whose culture? : whose city? / Cities and the creative class / Looking at themed environments / Globalization, culture and neighborhood change / Chinatown, part two? : the 'internationalization' of downtown Los Angeles / Fortified enclaves : the new urban segregation / Urban social movements - local thematics, global spaces / Glocalizing protest : urban conflicts and global social movements / Ferdinand Tonnies -- Georg Simmel -- Louis Wirth -- Herbert Gans -- Claude S. Fischer -- Robert Ezra Park -- Ernest W. Burgess -- Harvey Zorbaugh -- Walter Firey -- John Logan and Harvey Molotch -- Michael Dear -- Loic J. D. Wacquant and William Julius Wilson -- Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton -- Loic J. D. Wacquant -- Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning -- James S. Duncan -- Ann R. Markusen -- Melissa R. Gilbert -- Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner -- Donald L. Donham -- John Friedman -- Saskia Sassen -- Michael Peter Smith -- Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha -- Jan Lin -- Sharon Zukin -- Richard Florida -- Mark Gottdiener -- Christopher Mele -- Mike Davis -- Teresa P. R. Caldeira -- Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Margit Mayer -- Bettina Kohler and Markus Wissen.
This reader draws together seminal selections spanning the subfield from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Contributions from Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Zukin, Sassen, Smith and Castells are amongst the 40 generous selections. "The City Reader: third edition - an interdisciplinary urban reader aimed at urban studies, urban planning, urban geography and urban sociology courses - will be the anchor urban reader. Routledge published a first edition of The City Reader in 1996 and a second edition in 2000. The City Reader has become one of the most widely used anthologies in urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology and urban planning courses in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
0415323428 9780415323420 0415323436 9780415323437
2004021893
Sociology, Urban
HT108 / .U733 2005
307.76
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Community and society / The metropolis and mental life / Urbanism as a way of life / Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life : a reevaluation of definitions / Theories of urbanism / Human ecology / The growth of the city : an introduction to a research project / The natural areas of the city / Sentiment and symbolism as ecological variables / The city as a growth machine / Los Angeles and the Chicago school : invitation to a debate / The cost of racial and class exclusion in the inner city / Segregation and the making of the underclass / Urban outcasts : stigma and division in the black American ghetto and the French urban periphery / The immigrant enclave : theory and empirical examples / Men without property : the tramp's classification and use of urban space / City spatial structure, women's household work, and national urban policy / 'Race,' space, and power : the survival strategies of working poor women / Gender and space : lesbians and gay man in the city / Freeing South Africa : the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto / The world city hypothesis / The urban impact of economic globalization / Power in place : retheorizing the local and the global / City life : West African communities in New York / Globalization and the revalorizing of ethnic places in immigration gateway cities / Whose culture? : whose city? / Cities and the creative class / Looking at themed environments / Globalization, culture and neighborhood change / Chinatown, part two? : the 'internationalization' of downtown Los Angeles / Fortified enclaves : the new urban segregation / Urban social movements - local thematics, global spaces / Glocalizing protest : urban conflicts and global social movements / Ferdinand Tonnies -- Georg Simmel -- Louis Wirth -- Herbert Gans -- Claude S. Fischer -- Robert Ezra Park -- Ernest W. Burgess -- Harvey Zorbaugh -- Walter Firey -- John Logan and Harvey Molotch -- Michael Dear -- Loic J. D. Wacquant and William Julius Wilson -- Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton -- Loic J. D. Wacquant -- Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning -- James S. Duncan -- Ann R. Markusen -- Melissa R. Gilbert -- Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner -- Donald L. Donham -- John Friedman -- Saskia Sassen -- Michael Peter Smith -- Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha -- Jan Lin -- Sharon Zukin -- Richard Florida -- Mark Gottdiener -- Christopher Mele -- Mike Davis -- Teresa P. R. Caldeira -- Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Margit Mayer -- Bettina Kohler and Markus Wissen.
This reader draws together seminal selections spanning the subfield from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Contributions from Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Zukin, Sassen, Smith and Castells are amongst the 40 generous selections. "The City Reader: third edition - an interdisciplinary urban reader aimed at urban studies, urban planning, urban geography and urban sociology courses - will be the anchor urban reader. Routledge published a first edition of The City Reader in 1996 and a second edition in 2000. The City Reader has become one of the most widely used anthologies in urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology and urban planning courses in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
0415323428 9780415323420 0415323436 9780415323437
2004021893
Sociology, Urban
HT108 / .U733 2005
307.76