TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lin,Jan
AU  - Mele,Christopher
TI  - The urban sociology reader
T2  - The Routledge urban reader series
SN  - 0415323428
AV  - HT108 .U733 2005
U1  - 307.76 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Sociology, Urban
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Community and society; Ferdinand Tonnies --; The metropolis and mental life; Georg Simmel --; Urbanism as a way of life; Louis Wirth --; Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life : a reevaluation of definitions; Herbert Gans --; Theories of urbanism; Claude S. Fischer --; Human ecology; Robert Ezra Park --; The growth of the city : an introduction to a research project; Ernest W. Burgess --; The natural areas of the city; Harvey Zorbaugh --; Sentiment and symbolism as ecological variables; Walter Firey --; The city as a growth machine; John Logan and Harvey Molotch --; Los Angeles and the Chicago school : invitation to a debate; Michael Dear --; The cost of racial and class exclusion in the inner city; Loic J. D. Wacquant and William Julius Wilson --; Segregation and the making of the underclass; Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton --; Urban outcasts : stigma and division in the black American ghetto and the French urban periphery; Loic J. D. Wacquant --; The immigrant enclave : theory and empirical examples; Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning --; Men without property : the tramp's classification and use of urban space; James S. Duncan --; City spatial structure, women's household work, and national urban policy; Ann R. Markusen --; 'Race,' space, and power : the survival strategies of working poor women; Melissa R. Gilbert --; Gender and space : lesbians and gay man in the city; Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner --; Freeing South Africa : the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto; Donald L. Donham --; The world city hypothesis; John Friedman --; The urban impact of economic globalization; Saskia Sassen --; Power in place : retheorizing the local and the global; Michael Peter Smith --; City life : West African communities in New York; Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha --; Globalization and the revalorizing of ethnic places in immigration gateway cities; Jan Lin --; Whose culture? : whose city?; Sharon Zukin --; Cities and the creative class; Richard Florida --; Looking at themed environments; Mark Gottdiener --; Globalization, culture and neighborhood change; Christopher Mele --; Chinatown, part two? : the 'internationalization' of downtown Los Angeles; Mike Davis --; Fortified enclaves : the new urban segregation; Teresa P. R. Caldeira --; Urban social movements - local thematics, global spaces; Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Margit Mayer --; Glocalizing protest : urban conflicts and global social movements; Bettina Kohler and Markus Wissen
N2  - 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
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