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The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought
Abstract from the publisher :
The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh…
The urban wilderness : A history of the American city
From the foreword by Charles Tilly :
For a generation Sam Warner has written about American urban history by sketching the development of particular cities. A 1994 poll of urban history scholars identified him as the country's most influential…
The city : Urban communities and their problems
From the preface : Many recent urban sociology textbooks have come close to abandoning the traditional concern of urban sociology, which is the community in urban society. Emphasis has shifted to individual adaptations to urban society or to…
Médinas immuables ? Gentrification et changement dans les villes historiques marocaines (1996-2010)
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Cet ouvrage entend contribuer au renouveau théorique de l’étude des médinas au Maroc, en rendant compte de l’étendue et de la nature d’un…
L'origine et la fonction économique des villes (étude de morphologie sociale)
Extrait de l'avant-propos :
Le présent travail prétend être un livre de sociologie, quoiqu'il renferme seulement une tentative de traiter avec quelque méthode un objet relativement précis et défini :…
The urban community
Extract from the preface by Ernest W. Burgess :
Nine years ago the central topic at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society was "Rural Sociology." So great was the demand for the volume, especially for use in classes in universities…
Man and the modern city
Extract from the preface by Otto F. Kraushaar: The essays which make up this colume represent the thoughtful efforts of a number of distinguished specialists to examine afresh the implications of urbanism for modern man. They were presented during…
The city
Contents :
Robert E. Park - The city : Suggestions for the investigation of human behavior in the urban environment
Ernest W. Burgess - The growth of the city : An introduction to a research project
R. D. McKenzie - The ecological approach to the…
Urban sociology : An introduction to the study of urban communities
Extract from the Preface :
This book aims to fulfil but one purpose, namely, to meet the needs of students engaged in the study of the sociology of urban communities... The four queries with which this book concerns itself are: (a) What are the…
The sociology of urban regions
Extract from the Preface :
An understanding of modern man's increasingly typical habitat - the city and the urban region - is a practical necessity for almost everyone... In this work, I have tried to present an organized review and interpretation of…
The sociology of city life
Contents :
I. The beginnings of city life :
1. The origin of city life
2. The emergence of urbanism
II. The location of the city :
1. The urban site
2. General geographic location
III. The physical setting of city life :
1. The developmental history…
Problems of city life: A study in urban sociology
Extract from Part I - Introductory: The modern city:
The most striking characteristics of present-day civilization are industrialization and urbanization. They present the environment, both natural and human, to which an increasing majority of people…
The historian and the city
Extract from the Preface:
...[T]he Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the Harvard University Summer Session [decided] to convene a conference, in August, 1961, that would consider the…
The sociology of a New York city block
Alternative link to the book via the Making of America digital library at the University of Michigan.
City life
Abstract from the publisher :
Cities are more important as cultural entities than their mere function as dormitories and industrial sites. Yet, the understanding of what makes a city 'alive' and appealing in cultural terms is still hotly contested -…
Reconstructing Beirut : Memory and space in a postwar Arab city
Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of…
Sprawl, justice, and citizenship : The civic costs of the American way of life
Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks--Americans by the…
Restless cities
Leading intellectuals reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion. The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. Restless Cities celebrates the ceaselessly inventive character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth…
The other global city
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic…
Enhancing the city : New perspectives for tourism and leisure
Abstract from the publisher : Departing from a survey on the post-modern landscapes of tourism, this book explores the transformations the city has undergone and the way it has become a simulacrum offered to tourists, spectacularised with the aim…