Urban sociology : images and structure /

Urban sociology : images and structure /

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Author / Creator:Flanagan, William G.
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c1999.
Description:xvii, 429 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Sociology, Urban.
Sociology, Urban -- United States.
Sociology, Urban.
United States.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3549478
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ISBN:0205278361
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-421) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the Fourth Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. An Invitation to Urban Studies
  • Conceptual Challenges in Understanding Urban Space
  • Experiencing Urban Space
  • Public Spaces and Human Behavior
  • Cities as Culture
  • Structuring Personal Experience
  • The Micro Order
  • Personal Management of the Public Experience
  • Our Love/Hate Relationship with the City
  • The True Cityphile and the Idealization of Urban Space
  • We're Number One
  • The Urban Arena: Playground and Politics
  • Cities for Fun and Profit
  • Cities and Political Expression
  • 2. From Ancient Cities to an Urban World
  • The Emergence of the Urban Form
  • In Search of the First City: The Middle East
  • Change in the Scale of Social Organization
  • The Urban Form as Culture and the Transformation of Experience
  • The Rise of the State and the Growth of Political-Economic Power
  • The Development of Cities in China and Mesoamerica
  • The Significance of Early Urbanization
  • The Urbanization of Europe
  • The Industrial Revolution
  • The Dimensions of Urbanization in the Industrial Revolution
  • Social Organization
  • The Urban Experience in the Industrialized City
  • City and Hinterland
  • Urban Change in the Present Era
  • The Shifting Center of Urban Growth in the Twentieth Century
  • Globalization and the Place of the City
  • Social Organization
  • Culture
  • Political Order
  • 3. The Urban Tradition in Sociology
  • The Changing Scale and the Social Order
  • The Urban Sociology of Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Oswald Spengler
  • The Urban Tradition Comes to the United States
  • The Ecology of Urban Life
  • Urbanism as a Way of Life
  • Size
  • Density
  • Heterogeneity
  • The Image of the City in the Urban Tradition and in American Culture
  • Evaluating the Urban Tradition in Sociology
  • Gender and Public Space
  • Updating the Urban Tradition
  • 4. Community and the City
  • Urban Community Studies
  • Case Studies
  • The Reconciliation of Urbanism and Community
  • Distinguishing between Social Spaces and Social Relationships
  • Social Networks
  • The Persistence of Family Ties
  • Summary
  • 5. Ethnicity and Minority/Majority Relations in Urban Studies
  • Ethnicity and Minority
  • The Urban Dimensions of Immigration, Ethnic Persistence, and Assimilation
  • The Elastic Qualities of Ethnicity
  • Interethnic Hostility
  • Ethnic Culture: Survival or Hybrid?
  • Urban Ethnic Enclaves
  • Institutions in the Rivalry for Peoplehood
  • Everyone an Ethnic
  • The Urban Arena and the Formation of Minority Groups
  • Population Trends and Minorities
  • African American Urbanization
  • Contemporary Immigration and the Making of Minorities
  • La Ciudad Latina
  • Asian Americans and the Problem of Scapegoating
  • Native Americans and the City
  • A Conclusion: The Recruitment of Labor and the Creation of Minorities
  • 6. Patterns and Consequences of Urbanization in Poor Countries
  • Images of the "Third World" City
  • Mexico City
  • Bangkok
  • Lagos
  • Migration and Population Growth
  • Modernization and Political Economy
  • Modernization
  • Political Economy
  • Urbanization and Spatial Inequalities
  • Industrialization and Employment
  • The Challenges of Urban Growth
  • Primacy
  • Squatter Settlement
  • Comparisons of Inner-City Slums and Peripheral Squatter Settlements
  • The Informal Sector
  • Globalization and the Urban Policy Dilemma
  • Comparative Urban Studies
  • Urbanization and Kinship
  • Communities and Networks
  • Urbanization and Ethnicity
  • 7. Urban Growth and Transitions in the United States
  • Urban Growth before the Twentieth Century
  • Early Promoters
  • The Race for Regional Domination
  • The Midwest
  • The West
  • Nineteenth Century Arenas of Wealth and Poverty
  • The Walking City
  • Early Public Transportation and the First Suburbs
  • The Expanding Metropolis: Through World War II
  • The Growing Edge
  • Metropolitanization
  • Remaking the Cities: Transportation, Government Policy, and the Wheels and Wings of Industry
  • The Automobile Age
  • The Great Depression and Urban Conditions
  • World War II and the Altered Course of Urban Growth
  • The Continuation of Urban Trends Since World War II: Patterns of Growth in Decline
  • The Federal Government's Role in Suburbanization
  • The Selling of the Suburbs
  • The Blurring of the Suburbs
  • Edge City
  • The Rise of the Sunbelt and the Crisis of the Industrial City
  • The Nature of the Sunbelt Advantage
  • Sunbelt Liabilities
  • Generalized Patterns of Growth and Decline
  • 8. Ecology and Capitalism: Globalization and Locality
  • Urban Ecology and Urban Political Economy
  • Urban Ecology
  • Evaluating the Classical Ecological Schemes
  • Postwar Modifications in the Methods and Scope of Urban Ecology
  • Recent Concept Developments
  • Functionalist Urban Ecology
  • Interurban Ecology
  • Political Economy and Urban Sociology
  • Capital Accumulation
  • Class Conflict
  • Evaluating the Contributions of the Marxist Approach
  • The Rationalization of Space and the Emergence of Regional and Global Perspectives
  • Regional Studies
  • Nonmetropolitan Growth
  • Urban Sociology and Structural Determinism
  • Is Globalization Another Determinist Theory?
  • Human Agency and Urban Change
  • 9. Poverty, Power, and Crime
  • The Features of Urban Poverty in the United States
  • Explaining Poverty
  • The "Culture of Poverty" and Its Critics
  • The Structure of Poverty
  • Patterns of Metropolitan Segregation
  • African American Suburbs
  • Race and Urban Poverty: Ecology, Culture, and the Mismatch Debate
  • The Continuing Significance of Race
  • Urban Households Headed by Women
  • The Dual-City Hypothesis
  • The Correlates of Urban Poverty: Powerlessness, Crime, and Victimization
  • Powerlessness
  • Crime and Victimization
  • A Conclusion: Structure, Culture, and the Poor
  • 10. Urban Policy
  • The Nature of Urban Policy
  • Early Plans: The Grand Scale and the Humane Order
  • The Record of Policy in the United States
  • Housing Programs in the United States
  • Urban Renewal
  • Public Housing
  • The Renewed Search for Market Solutions to the Housing Problem
  • Urban Homesteading and Project HOPE
  • The Battle for Shelter in Contemporary America
  • Gentrification
  • Gated Communities
  • Losers in the Battle for Space: The Homeless
  • The U.S. Failure to Develop a Comprehensive Urban Policy
  • Limited Strategies
  • Model Cities
  • New Towns
  • Enterprise and Empowerment Zones
  • Urban Policy outside the United States
  • Urban Policy in Western Europe
  • Centrally Planned Economies
  • Three Dimensions of Successful Urban Policy
  • Scale
  • Comprehensiveness
  • Social Justice
  • 11. A Unified Perspective for Urban Sociology
  • Consequences of the Division in Urban Sociology
  • Toward a Unity of Spatial Sociology
  • The Future of Urban Sociology
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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