Title & Author:

The city, revisited : urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York / Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson, editors.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.

Description:

381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revisiting urban theory -- Theorizing the city / Dennis R. Judd -- Grounded theory : not abstract words but tools of analysis / Janet Abu-Lughod -- The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess : same city, different visions / Daphne Spain -- The view from Los Angeles -- Urban politics and the Los Angeles school of urbanism / Michael Dear and Nicholas Dahmann -- The sun also rises in the west / Amy Bridges -- From the Chicago to the L.A. school : whither the local state? / Steven P. Erie and Scott A. MacKenzie -- The view from New York -- The rise and decline of the L.A. and New York schools / David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge -- School is out : the case of New York City / John Hull Mollenkopf -- Radical uniqueness and the flight from urban theory / Robert A. Beauregard -- The view from Chicago -- The new Chicago school of urbanism and the new Daley machine / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly -- The new Chicago school : notes toward a theory / Terry Nichols Clark -- The mayor among his peers : interpreting Richard M. Daley / Larry Bennett -- Both center and periphery : Chicago's metropolitan expansion and the new downtowns / Costas Spirou -- The utility of U.S. urban theory -- The city and its politics : informal and contested / Frank Gaffikin, David C. Perry, and Ratoola Kundu -- Understanding deep urban change : patterns of residential segregation in Latin American cities / Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo -- Studying twenty-first century cities / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly.

Summary:

This contributors to this book trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic 'The City', engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of 20th-century urban development are relevant for studying the 21st-century metropolis.

ISBN:

9780816665754 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0816665753 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780816665761 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816665761 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban United States Case studies.
Metropolitan government United States Case studies.
Sustainable development United States Case studies.
Sociologie urbaine États-Unis Études de cas.
Développement durable États-Unis Études de cas.
71.14 urban society.
15.85 history of America.
Metropolitan government
Sociology, Urban
Sustainable development
Stadssociologie.
Lokaal bestuur.
Duurzame ontwikkeling.
Stadtsoziologie.
Stadtforschung.
Sustainable development United States. Case studies.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
USA.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Judd, Dennis R.
Simpson, Dick, 1940-
Simpson, Dick W.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271354
Call No.: BIB 204410
Status: Available