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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…
Listening to the voices and organizing the interests of ordinary people. Great cities-ordinary lives
Paris as revolution: writing the nineteenth-century city
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In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution…
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 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…
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…
Robert E. Park : itinéraire sociologique de Red Wing à Chicago
Présentation par l'éditeur :
On attribue à Robert E. Park l'invention de la sociologie urbaine. Mais le connaît-on vraiment ? Sait-on qu'il a conçu sa thèse à l'université de Strasbourg,…
The urban condition : Space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and…
City : Rediscovering the center
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For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,…
The essential William H. Whyte
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The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements,…
Henri Lefebvre on space : Architecture, urban research, and the production of theory
Abstract from the publisher : In this innovative work, Łukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical…