Title & Author:

The American city : a sourcebook of urban imagery / edited by Anselm L. Strauss.

Publication:

London : Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1968.

Description:

xiv, 530 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Images and perspectives. Urban perspectives: New York City / Anselm L. Strauss ; Some varieties of American urban symbolism / Anselm L. Strauss -- Contrasting conceptions of the same city. How I struck Chicago, and how Chicago struck me / Rudyard Kipling ; An Easterner looks at a Western city / Julian Ralph ; The Better Business Bureau's representation of Chicago -- The frontier and the city. Land speculation in Chicago / John L. Peyton ; City of the plains / William H. Dixon ; Frontier morals / Sarah Royce ; Joe's luck / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; The frontier in American history / Frederick J. Turner -- City destiny. The Midwest will be urban / J.W. Scott ; Missouri-St. Louis, the commercial center of North America / S. Waterhouse ; History of Marietta / Thomas J. Summers -- Early versions of the rural-urban dialogue. The political state of agriculture and the pleasures of agriculture / John Taylor ; The American city / A.D. Mayo ; What constitutes a merchant / Charles Edwards ; The morals of trade ; Humanity in the city / E.H. Chapin ; A later version of the dialogue / Walter Burr -- Perils of the great city. Perils -- the city / Josiah Strong ; Our cities / John Habberton ; The language of the fence / H.W. Gibson ; Poverty and the immigrant / Robert Hunter ; The sexual immorality of girls / W.I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki ; The professional ideology of social pathologies / C. Wright Mills -- Success and the perilous city. The strife for precedence / E.H. Chapin ; Coming to the city / Horace Greeley ; Society in town / A.D. Mayo ; The girl who earns her own living / Anna S. Richardson ; City boy versus country boy / J.M. Welding ; Women of New York / Marie L. Hankins ; Success and the man of culture / George S. Hillard -- Poverty and its solutions. Rural homes for urban children / Charles Loring Brace ; Nineteenth-street gang / Charles Loring Brace ; Outings / Joseph Lee ; Immigrants and the church / William P. Shriver ; The subjective necessity for social settlements / Jane Addams ; Cleric urges new ministry to meet urban needs / Bernard Weinraub ; The ethics of progress / Franklin Giddings ; A program of social work / Simon N. Patten ; The culture of poverty approach to social problems / Hylan Lewis ; California Foundation for Economic Opportunity -- Democracy, politics, and municipal reform. The city: the hope of democracy / Frederic C. Howe ; The coming city / Richard T. Ely ; Reform and the suffragette / Anna J. Cooper ; A city boss loses an election / A. Julius Friedberg ; Big Kennedy and the Mugwumps / Alfred H. Lewis ; The urban polity / Milton Kotler.
Order and disorder in the city. Why the police are not more effective / William MacAdoo ; Keeping the peace in Skid Row / Egon Bittner ; The police as perceived by Negro boys / Carl Werthman ; Violence in the city / Robert Blauner -- Sociologists study social worlds. The great metropolis: social worlds / Junius Browne ; A review of "The social value of the saloon" / E.C. Moore ; Symbolism, space, and the upper class / Walter Firey ; The world of furnished rooms / Harvey Zorbaugh ; Towertown: Chicago's Bohemia / Harvey Zorbaugh ; Patterns of voluntary association among urban working-class families / Floyd Dotson ; Rural styles in an urban environment / Christen T. Jonassen ; Interdependent worlds: the social integration of queers and peers / Albert J. Reiss, Jr. ; A cosmopolitan world / Frederick Edge -- The city without human purpose. Sympathy: country versus city / Charles H. Cooley ; Impersonality in the city / Robert and Helen Lynd ; Conspicuous consumption: country versus city / Thorstein Veblen ; The modern city: anomic, impersonal, meaningless / C. Wright Mills ; Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth ; The community of limited liability / Morris Janowitz ; The cabdriver and his fare: facets of a fleeting relationship / Fred Davis -- Rural amenities and urban attributes. Rooftop gardeners bring forth blossoms high above a city of stone and steel / Meyer Berger ; I have 7,000,000 neighbors / Alfred E. Smith ; The woman on the farm / Clara Waldo ; The provincial American / Meridith Nicholson ; The country newspaper / William Allen White -- Suburbia. Ten acres enough / Anonymous ; Types of suburbs / Everett Chamberlin ; The suburbanite / H.A. Bridgeman ; Suburban nightmare / Frederick Allen ; The Catholic suburbanite / Andrew M. Greeley -- Visitors: fun and esthetics. Reno: specialization and fun / Lucius Beebe ; Tokyo: enjoyment plus additional meanings / Yoshie Egavwa ; Occupational touristry / Ruth Pape -- City planning. The Utopian city: Altruria / Titus K. Smith ; Planning and the city's "Good" / Robert H. Talbert ; The city beautiful: trees, parks, and other open spaces / Frederick Olmsted ; The city beautiful: municipal art / Frederick S. Lamb ; The City Club and the city beautiful / Leslie Miller, Dr. MacAlister, and S.S. Fels ; Planning and commercial organizations / Ryerson Ritchie ; Business vision and civic spirit / John Ihlder ; Social power and the real estate board / Donald H. Bouma ; City planning and the symbolism of space / Walter Firey ; The redevelopment of West End / Herbert J. Gans ; Dilemmas in urban renewal / Harold Goldblatt -- Urban imagery and urban theory. The latest in urban imagery / Anselm L. Strauss ; Strategies for discovering urban theory / Anselm L. Strauss.

ISBN:

0713900180
9780713900187

Subject:

Cities and towns United States.
Urbanization.
Villes États-Unis.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
Cities and towns
Verstädterung
Aufsatzsammlung
Cidade (Sociologia)
United States
USA

Form/genre:

Essay
Aufsatzsammlung.
essays.
Essays
Essais.

Added entries:

Strauss, Anselm L., editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 122865
Call No.: W1635; ID:86-B5036
Status: Available