The New urban sociology
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The New urban sociology
McGraw-Hill, c1994
- : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-356) and index
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Description
Written from a postmodernist perspective, this work considers urban regions as built environments and goes beyond traditional social variables to examine economic and political dimensions of urban development. The text has a global outlook and takes a balanced approach to cities and suburbs. It introduces the paradigm - "social-spatial perspective" - to urban sociology, which is used to consider the role played by spacial considerations, such as the role of real estate in metropolitan development. Race, class and gender are dealt with in a balanced way. This edition includes new topics, such as focus groups and data management programs for data entry. Case studies are treated as a major form of social research and as such the text includes lengthy discussions of them.
Table of Contents
- The new urban sociology
- the origins of urbanization and the characteristics of cities
- urbanization in the United States
- the metropolitan period in the United States - 1920 to 1960
- the restructuring of settlement space - 1960 to 1990
- the rise of urban sociology
- contemporary urban sociology - the socio-spatial perspective
- people, lifestyles and the metropolis
- neighbourhoods, the public environment and theories of urban life
- metropolitan problems - poverty, racism, crime, housing and fiscal crisis
- local politics - city and suburban governments
- third world urbanization
- urbanization in the industrialized world - Western and Eastern Europe and Japan
- environmental issues and metropolitan planning
- metropolitan social policy.
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