Main entry:

Gans, Herbert J.

Title & Author:

People, plans, and policies : essays on poverty, racism, and other national urban problems / Herbert J. Gans.

Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press : Russell Sage Foundation, ©1991.

Description:

xiii, 383 pages ; 24 cm.

Series:

The Columbia history of urban life

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-369) and index.
Toward a human architecture: a sociologist's view of the profession -- The potential environment and the effective environment -- Urban vitality and the fallacy of physical determinism. -- Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: a reevaluation of definitions -- American urban theories and urban areas: observations on contemporary ecological, Marxist, and other paradigms -- The historical comparison of cities: some conceptual, methodological, and value problems -- Robert Moses: the master broker -- City planning in America, 1890-1968: a sociological analysis -- The goal-oriented approach to planning -- Planning, social planning, and politics -- Social science for social policy.
The human implications of slum clearance and relocation -- From the bulldozer to homelessness -- The role of education in the escape from poverty -- Planning for a labor-intensive economy -- The thirty-two hour work week: an analysis of worksharing -- The uses of poverty -- Escaping from poverty: a comparison of the immigrant and black experience -- The black family: reflections on the "Moynihan report" -- Culture and class in the study of poverty: an approach to antipoverty research -- The dangers of the underclass: its harmfulness as a planning concept.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0231074026
9780231074025

Subject:

City planning United States.
Urban poor United States.
Pobreza EE.UU.
Pauvres en milieu urbain États-Unis.
City planning
Race relations
Social policy
Urban poor
Soziale Probleme
Stadt
Stadtplanung
Aufsatzsammlung
Armoede.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Sociaal-economisch beleid.
Steden.
United States Social policy.
United States Race relations.
EE.UU. Política social.
EE.UU. Cuestión racial.
États-Unis Politique sociale.
États-Unis Relations raciales.
United States
USA
City United States
United Race relations
United Social policy
Urban United States

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Essays.

Added entries:

Columbia history of urban life.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 217660
Call No.: HT167 .G36 1991
Status: Available