Title & Author:

Cities of the mind : images and themes of the city in the social sciences / edited by Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister.

Publication:

New York : Plenum Press, ©1984.

Description:

xiii, 356 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

Environment, development, and public policy. Cities and development

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Introduction -- Images, themes, and urbanography / Lloyd Rodwin and Robert M. Hollister -- Part II. Urban images and themes in specific fields -- Geography : descriptive, scientific, subjective, and radical images of the city / Peter Hall -- Economics : invisible, productive, and problem cities / John R. Harris -- Images of the city in political science : communities, administrative entities, competitive markets, and seats of chaos / Martin Shefter -- Anthropolitical approaches to the city / Lisa Redfield Peattie and Edward Robbins -- Sociology -- four images of organized diversity : bazaar, jungle, organism, and machine / Peter Langer -- History : notes on urban images of historians / Charles Tilly -- City planning : images of the ideal and the existing city / Thomas A. Reiner and Michael A. Hindery -- Part III. Reflections on context and the interpretation of urban images -- Reconsidering The image of the city / Kevin Lynch -- The puzzle of antiurbanism in classic American literature / Leo Marx -- Slums and skyscrapers : urban images, symbols, and ideology / Sam Bass Warner, Jr. -- Urban political images in search of a historical context / Michael H. Frisch -- The city as a legal concept / Gerald E. Frug -- Cities and countryside in anthropology / Anthony Leeds -- Ex uno plures : a walk through Marxist urban studies / Paolo Ceccarelli -- Note of sociological images of the city / Nathan Glazer.
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Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0306414260
9780306414268

Subject:

Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Cities and towns United States.
Social sciences United States.
Cities and towns.
Social sciences.
Cities
Social Sciences
Villes États-Unis.
Sciences sociales États-Unis.
Villes.
Sciences sociales.
cities.
social sciences.
Image
Sozialwissenschaften
Stadt
Stadtforschung
Stadtsoziologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Steden.
Beeldvorming.
Sociale wetenschappen.
Cities and towns Research.
United States

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Rodwin, Lloyd.
Hollister, Robert M.
Environment, development, and public policy. Cities and development.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 135293
Call No.: ID:85-B24526
Status: Available