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The urban world is a provocative terrain on which to contemplate the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed over the last 200 years. This Readertraverses this terrain through sections on urban social theory, social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and the world system and urban social movements.

Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this Readerincludes forty significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Zukin, Sassen, Smith and Castells. 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, until 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Introduction
Part 1 Urbanism and Community
1 Introduction
2 Community and Society
3 The Metropolis and Mental Life
4 Urbanism as a Way of Life
5 Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A reevaluation of definitions
6 Theories of Urbanism
Part 2 The Form and Function of Cities
7 Introduction
8 Human Ecology
9 The Growth of The City: an introduction to a research project
10 The Natural Areas of a City
11 Sentiment and Symbolism As Ecological Variables
12 The City as a Growth Machine
13 Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a debate
Part 3 Inequality and Social Difference
14 Introduction
15 The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City
16 Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
17 Urban Outcasts: Stigma and division in the black American ghetto and the French urban periphery
18 The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and empirical examples
19 Men Without Property: The tramp's classification and use of urban space
Part 4 Gender and Sexuality
20 Introduction
21 City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy
22 'Race', Space, and Power: The survival strategies of working poor women
23 Gender and Space: Lesbians and gay men in the city
24 Freeing South Africa: The 'modernization" of male-male sexuality in Soweto
Part 5 Globalization and Urban Change
25 Introduction
26 The World City Hypothesis
27 The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization
28 Power in Place: Retheorizing the local and the global
29 City Life: West African communities in New York
30 Globalization and the Revalorizing of Ethnic Places in Immigration Gateway Cities
Part 6 Culture and The Urban Economy
31 Introduction
32 Whose Culture? Whose City?
33 Cities and the Creative Class
34 Looking at Themed Environments
35 Globalization, Culture and Neighborhood Change
Part 7 Urban Exclusion and Social Resistance
36 Introduction
37 Chinatown, Part Two?: The 'internationalization' of downtown Los Angeles
38 Fortified Enclaves: The new urban segregation
39 Urban Social Movements - Local Thematics, Global Spaces
40 Glocalizing Protest: Urban conflicts and global social movements

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Jan Lin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College, Los Angeles, and Christopher Meleis Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.