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082			_a307.76 _bCHE-I
100			_aChen, Xiangming _96055
245			_aIntroduction to cities: _bhow place and space shape human experience. / _cXiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum and Krista E. Paulsen
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_bWiley-Blackwell , _c2018. _aNew Jersey:
300			_axxvi, 406 p.
505			_aIntro --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.
520			_aA 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.
650			_aPL _914601
650			_aCities and towns _vSocial aspects. _923562
650			_aUrbanization _2 Social aspects. _923563
690			_aCities and towns-Social aspects. _96972
690			_aUrbanization-Social aspects. _98036
700			_aOrum, Anthony M. _92064
700			_aPaulsen, Krista E. _914602
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