Introduction to cities:
Chen, Xiangming
Introduction to cities: how place and space shape human experience. / Xiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum and Krista E. Paulsen - 2nd ed. - New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell , 2018. - xxvi, 406 p.
Intro --Introduction to Cities --About the website --Brief Contents --Contents --List of illustrations --List of tables --List of boxes --About the authors --Preface to the second edition Acknowledgments --Walk-through tour --Part I THE FOUNDATIONS --1 Cities as places and spaces --Cities asplaces --Exploring further 1.1 --Identity, community,andsecurity --Places as the site of our identity --Places as the site of community --Places as sites of security --Studying the city 1.1 --Human beings make and remake places --Place and space --Studying the city 1.2 --Making the city better 1.1 --
Cities shape the fates of human beings --Cities and people --2 Social theories of urban space and place: The early perspectives --The social and theoretical roots of modern urban theory --Studying the city 2.1 --Ferdinand TÃ nnies: Community and society --Georg Simmel: The metropolis and mental life --TÃ nnies and Simmel: Further reflections --The Chicago School of Sociology --The city as social space --
The city as concentric zones --The city, social change, and social order --
Studying the city 2.2 --
Life in the city as a way of life --
Making the city better 2.1 --
Early social theories of urban life --
3 Social theories of urban space and place: Perspectives in the post-World War II era --
Theoretical descendants of Marx --
Manuel Castells and the urban question --
David Harvey: Injustice and inequality in the city --
John Logan and Harvey Molotch: The city as a growth machine --
Making the city better 3.1 --
Making the city better 3.2 --
Further reflections: Marx and the critique of modern cities --
The return to place and the turn to culture --
Jane Jacobs and the discovery of community in the modern metropolis --
Studying the city 3.1 --
Sharon Zukin and the turn to culture --
Exploring further 3.1 --
Going global. The 1980s and the creation of the global city --
Power, politics, and ordinary lives --
Evaluating theories of the city --
4 Methods and rules for the study of cities --
First rules for doing a social science of cities --
The rule of validity --
The rule of reliability --
Exploring further 4.1 --
Cities and the question of numbers --
Studying the city 4.1 --
The city as a case study --
The city as the typical case --
The city as a prototypical case --
Ethnographic and historical case studies --
Ethnographic case studies --
Studying the city 4.2 --
Historical case studies --
From one to multiple cases --
Studying the city 4.3 --
A last but very important rule on doing a good social science of cities: Fitting good theory to good methods --
And what about insight? --
Part II THE CHANGING METROPOLIS --
5 The metropolis and its expansion: Early insights and basic principles --
Metropolitan growth: Basic features --
Studying the city 5.1 --
The mobility of people and groups in the metropolis --
Social differences and migration in the metropolis --
Migration and the expansion of the metropolis --
The metropolitan center and its links to the hinterlands --
Studying the city 5.2 --
Human agents and social institutions in the expansion of the metropolis --
Making the city better 5.1 --
Planning and metropolitan development --
Exploring further 5.1 --
Urban growth, institutions, and human agents --
6 The origins and development of suburbs --
What is a suburb? Definitions and variations --
Alternative suburban forms --
A brief history of suburban development --
The original suburbs --
Culture and the demand for suburban living --
Making the city better 6.1 --
Exploring further 6.1 --
Early suburban diversity --
Transportation technologies and suburban expansion --
Making the city better 6.2 --
The role of policy in suburban expansion. Reconstructing the contemporary metropolis --
New ethnic enclaves --
LGBT neighborhoods --
Studying the city 9.2 --
The Western metropolis in flux --
10 Power, authority, and cities as contested spaces --
States and markets --
The changing global economy --
Cities today as contested spaces --
The nature of local governance and politics --
Local authorities and marginalized peoples --
African Americans and local authorities --
The homeless and local authorities --
The very poor and local authorities --
Contesting mistreatment by local authorities: Resistance and aid --
Making the city better 10.1 --
Exploring further 10.1 --
Major contests over deep meanings and spaces in the metropolis --
Jerusalem: The quintessential contested city --
The contested spaces of Berlin --
Conclusion --
Part IV THE METROPOLIS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD --
11 Urbanization and cities in developing countries --
Urbanization: The basic path and its impact on place --
Developing-country cities in historical perspective --
Studying the city 11.1 --
The basic dimensions of urbanization --
Urban hierarchy --
Urban primacy --
Over-urbanization versus under-urbanization --
Studying the city 11.2 --
Natural increase and in-migration --
From process and system to place --
A profile with multiple wrinkles --
Megacities as places: Opportunities and challenges --
Size and density --
Creating wealth and sustaining poverty --
Exploring further 11.1 --
Making the city better 11.1 --
The developing megacity as a lived place --
Making the city better 11.2 --
Governing the megacities --
Studying the city 11.3 --
Reassessing the developing-country city --
12 Cities in the global economy --
Cities in a globalizing world: Theoretical background --
Emerging cities in the global economy --
Yiwu, China --
Rajarhat, India --
Further reflections on Yiwu --
Re-emerging cities in the global economy.
A complete introduction to the history, evolution, and future of the modern city, this book covers a wide range of theory, including the significance of space and place, to provide a balanced account of why cities are an essential part of the global human experience. Covers a wide range of theoretical approaches to the city, from the historical to the cutting edge Emphasizes the important themes of space and place.
9781119167716
PL
Cities and towns --Social aspects.
Urbanization
307.76 / CHE-I
Introduction to cities: how place and space shape human experience. / Xiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum and Krista E. Paulsen - 2nd ed. - New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell , 2018. - xxvi, 406 p.
Intro --Introduction to Cities --About the website --Brief Contents --Contents --List of illustrations --List of tables --List of boxes --About the authors --Preface to the second edition Acknowledgments --Walk-through tour --Part I THE FOUNDATIONS --1 Cities as places and spaces --Cities asplaces --Exploring further 1.1 --Identity, community,andsecurity --Places as the site of our identity --Places as the site of community --Places as sites of security --Studying the city 1.1 --Human beings make and remake places --Place and space --Studying the city 1.2 --Making the city better 1.1 --
Cities shape the fates of human beings --Cities and people --2 Social theories of urban space and place: The early perspectives --The social and theoretical roots of modern urban theory --Studying the city 2.1 --Ferdinand TÃ nnies: Community and society --Georg Simmel: The metropolis and mental life --TÃ nnies and Simmel: Further reflections --The Chicago School of Sociology --The city as social space --
The city as concentric zones --The city, social change, and social order --
Studying the city 2.2 --
Life in the city as a way of life --
Making the city better 2.1 --
Early social theories of urban life --
3 Social theories of urban space and place: Perspectives in the post-World War II era --
Theoretical descendants of Marx --
Manuel Castells and the urban question --
David Harvey: Injustice and inequality in the city --
John Logan and Harvey Molotch: The city as a growth machine --
Making the city better 3.1 --
Making the city better 3.2 --
Further reflections: Marx and the critique of modern cities --
The return to place and the turn to culture --
Jane Jacobs and the discovery of community in the modern metropolis --
Studying the city 3.1 --
Sharon Zukin and the turn to culture --
Exploring further 3.1 --
Going global. The 1980s and the creation of the global city --
Power, politics, and ordinary lives --
Evaluating theories of the city --
4 Methods and rules for the study of cities --
First rules for doing a social science of cities --
The rule of validity --
The rule of reliability --
Exploring further 4.1 --
Cities and the question of numbers --
Studying the city 4.1 --
The city as a case study --
The city as the typical case --
The city as a prototypical case --
Ethnographic and historical case studies --
Ethnographic case studies --
Studying the city 4.2 --
Historical case studies --
From one to multiple cases --
Studying the city 4.3 --
A last but very important rule on doing a good social science of cities: Fitting good theory to good methods --
And what about insight? --
Part II THE CHANGING METROPOLIS --
5 The metropolis and its expansion: Early insights and basic principles --
Metropolitan growth: Basic features --
Studying the city 5.1 --
The mobility of people and groups in the metropolis --
Social differences and migration in the metropolis --
Migration and the expansion of the metropolis --
The metropolitan center and its links to the hinterlands --
Studying the city 5.2 --
Human agents and social institutions in the expansion of the metropolis --
Making the city better 5.1 --
Planning and metropolitan development --
Exploring further 5.1 --
Urban growth, institutions, and human agents --
6 The origins and development of suburbs --
What is a suburb? Definitions and variations --
Alternative suburban forms --
A brief history of suburban development --
The original suburbs --
Culture and the demand for suburban living --
Making the city better 6.1 --
Exploring further 6.1 --
Early suburban diversity --
Transportation technologies and suburban expansion --
Making the city better 6.2 --
The role of policy in suburban expansion. Reconstructing the contemporary metropolis --
New ethnic enclaves --
LGBT neighborhoods --
Studying the city 9.2 --
The Western metropolis in flux --
10 Power, authority, and cities as contested spaces --
States and markets --
The changing global economy --
Cities today as contested spaces --
The nature of local governance and politics --
Local authorities and marginalized peoples --
African Americans and local authorities --
The homeless and local authorities --
The very poor and local authorities --
Contesting mistreatment by local authorities: Resistance and aid --
Making the city better 10.1 --
Exploring further 10.1 --
Major contests over deep meanings and spaces in the metropolis --
Jerusalem: The quintessential contested city --
The contested spaces of Berlin --
Conclusion --
Part IV THE METROPOLIS IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD --
11 Urbanization and cities in developing countries --
Urbanization: The basic path and its impact on place --
Developing-country cities in historical perspective --
Studying the city 11.1 --
The basic dimensions of urbanization --
Urban hierarchy --
Urban primacy --
Over-urbanization versus under-urbanization --
Studying the city 11.2 --
Natural increase and in-migration --
From process and system to place --
A profile with multiple wrinkles --
Megacities as places: Opportunities and challenges --
Size and density --
Creating wealth and sustaining poverty --
Exploring further 11.1 --
Making the city better 11.1 --
The developing megacity as a lived place --
Making the city better 11.2 --
Governing the megacities --
Studying the city 11.3 --
Reassessing the developing-country city --
12 Cities in the global economy --
Cities in a globalizing world: Theoretical background --
Emerging cities in the global economy --
Yiwu, China --
Rajarhat, India --
Further reflections on Yiwu --
Re-emerging cities in the global economy.
A complete introduction to the history, evolution, and future of the modern city, this book covers a wide range of theory, including the significance of space and place, to provide a balanced account of why cities are an essential part of the global human experience. Covers a wide range of theoretical approaches to the city, from the historical to the cutting edge Emphasizes the important themes of space and place.
9781119167716
PL
Cities and towns --Social aspects.
Urbanization
307.76 / CHE-I