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The urban sociology reader / edited by Jan Lin and Christopher Mele.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge urban reader seriesPublication details: London : Routledge, 2005.Description: ix, 363 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780415323420:
  • 9780415323437:
  • 0415323428
  • 0415323436 (pbk.)
  • 9780415323437 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76
LOC classification:
  • .U733 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 307.76 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 64590

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

[PART 1 : Urbanism and community] Community and society / F. Tonnies -- The metropolis and mental life / G. Simmel -- Urbanism as a way of life / L. Wirth -- Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: a reevaluation of definitions / H. Gans -- Theories of urbanism / C. Fischer.

[PART 2 : The form and function of cities] Human ecology / R. Park -- The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project / E. Burgess -- The natural areas of the city / H. Zorbaugh -- Sentiment and symbolism as ecological variables / W. Firey -- The city as a growth machine / J. Logan & H. Molotch -- Los Angeles and the Chicago school: invitation to a debate / M. Dear.

[PART 3 : Inequality and social difference] The cost of racial and class exclusion in the inner city / W. Wilson -- Segretation and the making of the underclass / D. Massey & N. Denton -- Urban outcasts: stigma and division in the black American ghetto and the French urban periphery / L. Wacquant -- The immigrant enclave: theory and empirical examples / A. Portes & R. Manning -- Men without property: the tramps classification and use of urban space / J. Duncan.

[PART 4 : Gender and sexuality] City spacial structure, women's household work and national uniion policy / A. Markusen -- Race, space and power: the survival strategies of working poor women / M. Gilbert -- Gender and space: lesbians and gay men in the city / J. Brenner -- Freeing South Africa: the modernization of male-male sexuality in Soweto / D. Donham.

[PART 5 : Globalization and urban change] The world city hypothesis / J. Friedmann -- The urban impact of economic globalization / S. Sassen -- Power in place: retheorizing the local and the global / M. Smith -- City life: west African communities in New York / P. Stoller & J. McConatha -- Globalization and the revalorizing of ethnic places in immigration gateway cities / J. Lin.

[PART 6 : Culture and the urban economy] Whose culture, whose city? / S. Zukin -- Cities and the creative class / R. Florida -- Looking at themed environments / M. Gottdiener -- Globalization, culture and neighbourhood change / C. Mele.

[PART 7 : Urban exclusion and social resistance] Chinatown, part two?: the internationalization of downtown Los Angeles / M. Davis -- Fortified enclaves: the new urban segregation / T. Caldeira -- Urban social movements - local thematics, global spaces / P. Hamel et al... -- Globalizing protest: urban conflicts and global social movements / B. Kohler & M. Wissen.

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.

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