Format:
xxv, 382 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
1283604094
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9781405155540
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9781283604093
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description based on print version record
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""About the website""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""List of illustrations""; ""List of tables""; ""List of boxes""; ""About the authors""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Walk-through tour""; ""Introduction""; ""Using this book""; ""PART I: THE FOUNDATIONS""; ""CHAPTER 1: Cities as places and spaces""; ""Cities as places""; ""Identity, community, and security""; ""Human beings make and remakeplaces""; ""Place and space""; ""Cities shape the fates of humanbeings""; ""Cities and people""; ""CHAPTER 2: Social theories of urban space and place""
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""The social and theoretical rootsof modern urban theory""""The Chicago School of Sociology""; ""Life in the city as a way of life""; ""Early social theories of urban life""; ""CHAPTER 3: Social theories of urban space and place""; ""Theoretical descendents of Marx""; ""The return to place and the turn to culture""; ""Going global: The 1980s and the creation of the global city""; ""Evaluating theories of the city""; ""CHAPTER 4: Methods and rules for the study of cities""; ""First rules for doing a social science of cities""; ""Cities and the question of numbers""
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""The city as a case study""""Ethnographic and historical case studies""; ""From one to multiple cases""; ""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""; ""CHAPTER 5: The metropolis and its expansion""; ""Metropolitan growth: Basic features""; ""The metropolis and its expansion""; ""The mobility of people and groups in the metropolis""; ""The metropolitan center and its links to the hinterlands""
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""Human agents and social institutions in the expansion of the metropolis""""Urban growth, institutions, and human agents""; ""CHAPTER 6: The origins and development of suburbs""; ""What is a suburb? Definitions and variations""; ""A brief history of suburban development""; ""Changes and challenges in contemporary suburbs""; ""Suburbs as places""; ""CHAPTER 7: Changing metropolitan landscapes after World War II""; ""Los Angeles: The prototype of the postwar metropolis""; ""The changing metropolitan order""; ""The emerging global economy: A brief overview""
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""People, place, and space in a global world""""PART III: THE METROPOLIS AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES""; ""CHAPTER 8: The early metropolis as a place of inequality""; ""Colonial cities as unequal places""; ""Early urban diversity""; ""Cities of immigrants""; ""Making the American ghetto""; ""The significance of urban diversity and inequality""; ""CHAPTER 9: Inequality and diversity in the post-World War II metropolis""; ""Inequality and the metropolis""; ""Gentrification and the remaking of the metropolis""; ""Social diversity and the transformed metropolis""
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""Reconstructing the contemporary metropolis: New ethnic enclaves""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781118261293
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283603713
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Chen, Xiangming, 1955 - Introduction to cities Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 ISBN 9781405155540
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Stadtgeografie
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Stadtentwicklung
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Verstädterung
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Stadtplanung
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Metropole
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Stadtsoziologie
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Großstadt
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Soziale Ungleichheit
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Entwicklungsländer
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