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Urban sociology reader

Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2013. London:Edition: 2nd edDescription: x,: 447 pISBN:
  • 9780415665315
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 URB
Contents:
Part 1: Urbanization and Community-- 1. Community and Society Ferdinand Tonnies-- 2. The Metropolis and Mental Life Georg Simmel-- 3. Urbanism as a Way of Life Louis Wirth 4. Theories of Urbanism Claude S. Fischer-- 5. The Uses of City Neighborhoods Jane Jacobs-- 6. Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities Barry Wellman-- 7. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital Robert Putnam-- Part 2: Understanding Urban Growth in the Capitalist City-- 8. Human Ecology Robert-- Park-- 9. The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project Ernest Burgess-- 10. The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis David Harvey-- 11. The City as a Growth Machine John Logan and Harvey Molotch-- 12. Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City Gregory Squires ---13. Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate Michael Dear-- 14. Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore --15. Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom-- 16. "Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot Be Sustainable-And Why They Are A Key to Sustainability" William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel-- Part 3: Racial and Social Inequality-- 17. The Philadelphia Negro W.E.B. DuBois-- 18. The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City Loic Wacquant and William Julius Wilson-- 19. Segregation and the Making of the Underclass Douglas S. Massey and Nancy Denton-- 20. The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning --21. Spatial Disparities in the Expansion of the Chinese Ethnoburb of Los Angeles Jan Lin and Paul Robinson-- 22. Men Without Property: The Tramp's Classification and Use of Urban Space James S. Duncan-- 23. Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster James R. Elliott and Jeremy Pais-- Part 4: Gender and Sexuality-- 24. City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy Ann Markusen-- 25. Race,' Space and Power: The Survival Strategies of Working Poor Women Melissa Gilbert-- 26. Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner-- 27. Freeing South Africa: The 'Modernization' of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto Donald L. Donham-- 28. Whose Place is this Space? Life in the Street Prostitution Area of Helsinki, Finland Sirpa Tani-- Part 5: Globalization and Transnationality-- 29. The World City Hypothesis John Friedmann-- 30. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims Saskia Sassen-- 31. Globalizing Singapore: Debating Transnational Flows in the City Brenda S. A. Yeoh and T. C. Chang-- 32. City Life: West African Communities in New York Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha --33. Social Remittances: Migration Driven Local-level Forms of Cultural Diffusion Peggy Levitt Part 6: Culture and the City-- 34. Whose Culture? Whose City? Sharon Zukin --35. Cities and the Creative Class Richard Florida-- 36. Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar Edward LiPuma and Thomas Koelble --37. Staying Vietnamese: Community and Place in Orange County and Boston Karin Aguilar-San Juan-- Part 7: Regulation and Rights in Urban Space-- 38. Spatial Governmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through Law S. E. Merry-- 39. The Erosion of Public Space and the Public Realm Setha Low-- 40. Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation Teresa P. Caldeira-- 41. Casinos, Prisons, Incinerators and Other Fragments of Neoliberal Urban Development Christopher Mele --42. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship James Holston-- 43. The Right to the City David Harvey
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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Urbanization and Community-- 1. Community and Society Ferdinand Tonnies-- 2. The Metropolis and Mental Life Georg Simmel-- 3. Urbanism as a Way of Life Louis Wirth 4. Theories of Urbanism Claude S. Fischer-- 5. The Uses of City Neighborhoods Jane Jacobs-- 6. Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities Barry Wellman-- 7. Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital Robert Putnam-- Part 2: Understanding Urban Growth in the Capitalist City-- 8. Human Ecology Robert-- Park-- 9. The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project Ernest Burgess-- 10. The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis David Harvey-- 11. The City as a Growth Machine John Logan and Harvey Molotch-- 12. Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City Gregory Squires ---13. Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate Michael Dear-- 14. Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore --15. Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom-- 16. "Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot Be Sustainable-And Why They Are A Key to Sustainability" William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel-- Part 3: Racial and Social Inequality-- 17. The Philadelphia Negro W.E.B. DuBois-- 18. The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City Loic Wacquant and William Julius Wilson-- 19. Segregation and the Making of the Underclass Douglas S. Massey and Nancy Denton-- 20. The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning --21. Spatial Disparities in the Expansion of the Chinese Ethnoburb of Los Angeles Jan Lin and Paul Robinson-- 22. Men Without Property: The Tramp's Classification and Use of Urban Space James S. Duncan-- 23. Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster James R. Elliott and Jeremy Pais-- Part 4: Gender and Sexuality-- 24. City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy Ann Markusen-- 25. Race,' Space and Power: The Survival Strategies of Working Poor Women Melissa Gilbert-- 26. Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner-- 27. Freeing South Africa: The 'Modernization' of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto Donald L. Donham-- 28. Whose Place is this Space? Life in the Street Prostitution Area of Helsinki, Finland Sirpa Tani-- Part 5: Globalization and Transnationality-- 29. The World City Hypothesis John Friedmann-- 30. Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims Saskia Sassen-- 31. Globalizing Singapore: Debating Transnational Flows in the City Brenda S. A. Yeoh and T. C. Chang-- 32. City Life: West African Communities in New York Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha --33. Social Remittances: Migration Driven Local-level Forms of Cultural Diffusion Peggy Levitt Part 6: Culture and the City-- 34. Whose Culture? Whose City? Sharon Zukin --35. Cities and the Creative Class Richard Florida-- 36. Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar Edward LiPuma and Thomas Koelble --37. Staying Vietnamese: Community and Place in Orange County and Boston Karin Aguilar-San Juan-- Part 7: Regulation and Rights in Urban Space-- 38. Spatial Governmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through Law S. E. Merry-- 39. The Erosion of Public Space and the Public Realm Setha Low-- 40. Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation Teresa P. Caldeira-- 41. Casinos, Prisons, Incinerators and Other Fragments of Neoliberal Urban Development Christopher Mele --42. Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship James Holston-- 43. The Right to the City David Harvey

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