| Description |
xvi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Social Theory and the City -- 2. Urban History -- 3. Community, Suburbia, and Social Capital -- 4. Images of the City and the Social Construction of Meaning -- 5. Crime and the City -- 6. The Divided City -- 7. The State, the Local, and the Global -- 8. Urban Politics -- 9. Urban Professions -- 10. Housing, Citizenship, and Society -- 11. Family and Gender |
| Summary |
Provides a comprehensive coverage of urban social theory within the history of social thought and addresses many of the contemporary debates |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 357-378 |
| Subject |
Sociology, Urban -- Textbooks.
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Sociology, Urban.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| LC no. |
2004353517 |
| ISBN |
0195515455 |
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