Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Description:

xi, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

The Routledge urban reader series

Notes:
Revised edition of: The urban sociology reader. 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Urbanization and Community -- Community and society / Ferdinand Tönnies -- The metropolis and mental life / Georg Simmel -- Urbanism as a way of life / Louis Wirth -- Theories of urbanism / Claude S. Fischer -- The uses of city neighborhoods / Jane Jacobs -- Networks, neighborhoods, and communities : approaches to the study of the community question / Barry Wellman and Barry Leighton -- Bowling alone : America's declining social capital / Robert Putnam -- pt. 2. Understanding Urban Growth in the Capitalist City -- Human ecology / Robert Ezra Park -- The growth of the city : an introduction to a research project / Ernest W. Burgess -- The urban process under capitalism : a framework for analysis / David Harvey -- The city as a growth machine / John Logan and Harvey Molotch -- Partnership and the pursuit of the private city / Gregory Squires -- Los Angeles and the Chicago School : invitation to a debate / Michael Dear -- Cities and the geographies of 'actually existing neoliberalism' / Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore -- Metropolitics for the twenty-first century / Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf, and Todd Swanson -- Urban ecological footprints : why cities cannot be sustainable--and why they are a key to sustainability / William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel -- pt. 3. Racial and Social Inequality -- The environment of the Negro / W. E. B. Du Bois -- The cost of racial and class exclusion in the inner city / Loïc J. D. Sqcquant and William Julius Wilson -- Segregation and the making of an underclass / Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton -- The immigrant enclave : theory and empirical examples / Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning -- Spatial disparities in the expansion of the Chinese ethnoburb of Los Angeles / Jan Lin and Paul Robinson -- Men without property : the tramp's classification and use of urban space / James S. Duncan -- Race, class, and Hurricane Katrina : social differences in human responses to disaster / James R. Elliott and Jeremy Pais -- pt. 4. Gender and Sexuality -- City spatial structure, women's household work, and national urban policy / Ann R. Markusen -- 'Race,' space, and power : the survival strategies of working poor women / Melissa R. Gilbert -- Gender and space : lesbians and gay men in the city / Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner -- Freeing South Africa : the 'modernization' of male-male sexuality in Soweto / Donald L. Donham -- Whose place is this space? : life in the street prostitution area of Helsinki, Finland / Sirpa Tani -- pt. 5. Globalization and Transnationality -- The world city hypothesis / John Friedmann -- Whose city is it? : globalization and the formation of new claims / Saskia Sassen -- Globalising Singapore : debating transnational flows in the city / Brenda S. A. Yeoh and T. C. Chang -- City life : West African communities in New York / Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha -- Social remittances : migration driven local-level forms of cultural diffusion / Peggy Levitt -- pt. 6. Culture and the City -- Whose culture? Whose city? / Sharon Zukin -- Cities and the creative class / Richard Florida -- Cultures of circulation and the urban imaginary : Miami as example and exemplar / Edward LiPuma and Thomas Koelble -- Staying Vietnamese : community and place in Orange County and Boston / Karin Aguilar-San Juan -- pt. 7. Regulation and Rights in Urban Space -- Spatial governmentality and the new urban social order : controlling gender violence through law / S. E. Merry -- The erosion of public space and the public realm / Setha Low -- Fortified enclaves : the new urban segregation / Teresa P. R. Caldeira -- Casinos, prisons, incinerators, and other fragments of neoliberal urban development / Christopher Mele -- Spaces of insurgent citizenship / James Holston -- The right to the city / David Harvey.

Summary:

"Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this reader includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Du Bois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey. The second edition illuminates more recent urban issues, such as sprawl, sustainability, immigration, and urban protest. Selections are predominantly sociological, but some readings cross disciplinary boundaries."

ISBN:

9780415665308 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415665302 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415665315 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415665310 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(ebk)
9780203103333

Subject:

Sociology, Urban.
Sociologie urbaine.
urban sociology.
Stadtsoziologie

Added entries:

Lin, Jan.
Mele, Christopher.
Routledge urban reader series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279898
Call No.: BIB 216197
Status: Available