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The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and transnational social relations and the regulation of urban space.

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, DuBois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey. The 2nd edition illuminates more recent urban issues such as sprawl, sustainability, immigration and urban protest. Selections are predominantly sociological, but some readings cross disciplinary boundaries.

Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, this book brings together important but, till now, widely dispersed writings. Editorial commentaries precede each entry; introducing the text, demonstrating its significance, and outlining the issues surrounding its topic, whilst the associated bibliography enables deeper investigations.

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• Part 1 Urbanization and Community
• 1 Community and Society
• 2 The Metropolis and Mental Life
• 3 Urbanism as a Way of Life
• 4 Theories of Urbanism
• 5 The Uses of City Neighborhoods
• 6 Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities
• 7 Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital
• Part 2 Understanding Urban Growth in the Capitalist City
• 8 Human Ecology
• 9 The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project
• 10 The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis
• 11 The City as a Growth Machine
• 12 Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City
• 13 Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate
• 14 Cities and the Geographies of "Actually Existing Neoliberalism
• 15 Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century
• 16 "Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot Be Sustainable--And Why They Are A Key to Sustainability"
• Part 3 Racialand Social Inequality
• 17 The Philadelphia Negro
• 18 The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City
• 19 Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
• 20 The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples
• 21 Spatial Disparities in the Expansion of the Chinese Ethnoburb of Los Angeles
• 22 Men Without Property: The Tramp's Classification and Use of Urban Space
• 23 Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina: Social Differences in Human Responses to Disaster
• Part 4 Gender and Sexuality
• 24 City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy
• 25 Race,' Space and Power: The Survival Strategies of Working Poor Women
• 26 Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City
• 27 Freeing South Africa: The âÇ Modernization' of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto
• 28 Whose Place is this Space? Life in the Street Prostitution Area of Helsinki, Finland
• Part 5 Globalization and Transnationality
• 29 The World City Hypothesis
• 30 Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims
• 31 Globalizing Singapore: Debating Transnational Flows in the City
• 32 City Life: West African Communities in New York
• 33 Social Remittances: Migration Driven Local-level Forms of Cultural Diffusion
• Part 6 Culture and the City
• 34 Whose Culture? Whose City?
• 35 Cities and the Creative Class
• 36 Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar
• 37 Staying Vietnamese: Community and Place in Orange County and Boston
• Part 7 Regulation and Rights in Urban Space
• 38 Spatial Governmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through Law
• 39 The Erosion of Public Space and the Public Realm
• 40 Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation
• 41 Casinos, Prisons, Incinerators and Other Fragments of Neoliberal Urban Development
• 42 Spaces of Insurgent Citizenship
• 43 The Right to the City

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Jan Lin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Christopher Mele is Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.