Overview

For undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology.   A social psychological perspective informed by political economy encourages sociological understanding of the city and suburb in the past and in the contemporary world.   Experiencing Cities is an introduction to urban sociology based heavily on microsociology and symbolic interaction theory—emphasizing the way people experience the urban world in their everyday lives, interact with one another, and create meaning from the physical and human environments of their cities.    

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Author:   Mark Hutter
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780205816859

ISBN 10:   0205816851
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 February 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE     BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS   Chapter 1:   Introduction to Experiencing Cities   Chapter 2:   The Emergence of Cities     Chapter 3:   The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology     Chapter 4:   Chicago School: Urbanism and Urban Ecology    Chapter 5:   Urban Planning     Chapter 6:   Urban Political Economy, The New Urban Sociology, and The Power of Place     Chapter 7:   The City as a Work of Art     Chapter 8:   The Skyscraper as Icon    Chapter 9:   Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order    Chapter 10: “Seeing” Disorder and the Ecology of Fear     Chapter 11: Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies     Chapter 12: Gender in the City     Chapter 13: City Families and Kinship Patterns     Chapter 14: Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activity     Chapter 15: Baseball and Basketball as Urban Drama     Chapter 16: The Suburbanization of America   Chapter 17: Social Capital and Healthy Places     Chapter 18: Experiencing World Cities         COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS :   Contents Preface       Part One · Historical Developments     1    Introduction to Experiencing Cities         The Urban World           Civilization and Cities            Microlevel Sociology and Macrolevel Sociology and Experiencing Cities             Symbolic Interactionism and the Study of City Life             W. I. Thomas: The Definition of the Situation             Robert E. Park: The City as a State of Mind             Anselm L. Strauss: Images of the City             Lyn Lofland: The World of Strangers and the Public Realm             Experiencing Cities through Symbolic Interactionism             Growing Up in the City: A Personal Odyssey       2    The Emergence of Cities           The Origin of Cities             The Agricultural Revolution            The Urban Revolution             Sumerian Cities             Trade Theory and the Origin of Cities             Social and Cultural Factors and the Emergence, Development, and Decline of Early Cities            Religion in Early Cities       3    The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology            The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century European Cities             Manchester: The Shock City of the Mid-Nineteenth Century             The Ideal Type: Community and Interpersonal Relationships           The Ideal Type: Rural and City Life                 Henry Sumner Maine and Ferdinand Tönnies                 Emile Durkheim                 Max Weber             Simmel: Metropolis and Mental Life      Part Two · Disciplinary Perspectives       4    Chicago School: Urbanism and Urban Ecology            Chicago: The Shock City of the Early Twentieth Century            The Chicago School and Social Disorganization             Robert E. Park: Urbanism             The Chicago School and Urbanism             Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life             Gans: Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life            Claude Fischer’s Subcultural Theory             The Chicago School and Urban Ecology             Ernest Burgess and the Concentric Zone Hypothesis             Modifications of the Concentric Zone Hypothesis: Hoyt’s Sector Model, Harris and Ullman’s Multiple Nuclei Model, and               Shevky and Bell’s Social Area Analysis             Walter Firey: Sentiment and Symbolism as Ecological Variables             Symbolic Interactionism and City Life: Summary Statement      5    Urban Planning             Burnham and the City Beautiful             Ebenezer Howard: The Garden City Movement             Radburn, New Jersey, and the Greenbelt Town of the 1930s             The Three Magnets Revisited             Wright’s Broadacre City             Le Corbusier: Cities Without Streets             Futurama: General Motors and the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair             Robert Moses: The Power Broker—New York City and Portland, Oregon             Edmund N. Bacon: The Redevelopment of Philadelphia             Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities             Conclusion       6    Urban Political Economy, The New Urban Sociology, and The Power of Place             Urban Political Economy             David Harvey’s Baltimore             From Chicago to LA: The LA School                 Edge Cities                 Privatopia                 Culture of Heteropolis                 City as Theme Park                 Fortified City                 Interdictory Spaces                 Historical Geographies of Restructuring                 Fordist versus Post-Fordist Regimes of Accumulation and Regulation                 Globalization                 Politics of Nature             The New Urban Sociology: The Growth Machine and the Sociospatial Perspective             Sharon Zukin: “Whose Culture? Whose City?”             Urban Imagery, Power, and the Symbolic Meaning of Place             The Politics of Place and Collective Memory             The Power of Place Project: Los Angeles             Independence Hall, the National Park Service, and the Reinterpretation of History       Part Three · City Imagery and the Social Psychology of City Life     7    The City as a Work of Art             Paris and the Impressionists             New York City and the Ashcan School             Mural Art as Street and Community Art          Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program             The Murals of Los Angeles             The Art Museum as a Community Resource: Detroit Institute of Arts   8    The Skyscraper as Icon            New York City                 The Singer Building                 The Metropolitan Life Insurance Building                 The Municipal Office Building                 The Woolworth Building             Moscow             Hong Kong            The Attack on the World Trade Center and the Media Response                 From Civic Criticism to Sentimental Icon: A Brief History                “World Trade Center” by David Lehman                 The Future: How Do You Reconstruct an Icon?               The “Ground Zero” Mosque    Part Four · The Social Psychology of City Life       9    Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order           The Private Realm, the Parochial Realm, and the Public Realm         Strangers and the “Goodness” of the Public Realm         Cheers: “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”         Elijah Anderson: The Cosmopolitan Canopy         Anonymity and the Quest for Social Order         William H. Whyte: Public Spaces—Rediscovering the Center         Sharon Zukin: The Battle for Bryant Park         Elijah Anderson: On Being “Streetwise”         Flash Mobs   10  “Seeing” Disorder and the Ecology of Fear           The Decline of Civility in the Public Realm             African Americans and the Exclusion from the Public Realm             Wilson and Kelling: Broken Windows             Mitchell Duneier: Street People and Broken Windows             The Criminalization of Poverty             Mike Davis: The Ecology of Fear and the Fortressing of America             Surveillance of the Street             Sampson and Raudenbush: “Seeing” Disorder and the Social Construction of “Broken Windows”       Part Five · City People      11  Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies             Ghetto and Enclave             White Ethnic Enclaves            African American Ghettos             Assimilation versus Hypersegregation            Urban Renewal and Urban Removal             Project Living in Public Housing             Stuyvesant Town             Gentrification and the Quest for Authenticity           Hollow City: The Gentrification of San Francisco             Homelessness       12  Gender in the City             Gender and Public Space             Etiquette: Governing Gender in the Public Sphere             Gender Harassment in the Public Sphere             Gays and Lesbians in the City             Urban Tribes, Gays, and the Creative Class             Nightlife as Frontier       Jobs Move to Where People Are: Meet Me in St. Louis       13  City Families and Kinship Patterns             The Public World of the Preindustrial Family             The Industrial City and the Rise of the Private Family             The Rise of the Suburbs, the Cult of Domesticity, and the Private Family             The City and the Rediscovery of the Family and Urban Kinship Patterns             Urban Kinship Networks and the African American Family             Mexican Americans in Urban Barrios             The Suburban Working-Class and Middle-Class Family             The Dispersal of Kin and Kin-Work       Part Six · City Places       14  Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activity             The Downtown Department Store             Neighborhood Stores and Community Identification            Suburbia, the Mall, and the Decline of Downtown Shopping            Whose Stores? Whose Neighborhood?             New Immigrants, the Revitalization of Inner-City Stores, and the Rise of the Consumer City             Money Has No Smell: African Street Vendors and International Trade             The Gentrification of the U Street Corridor   15  Baseball and Basketball as Urban Drama             An Urban Game             Boosterism and Civic Pride             Spectators and Fan(atic)s             Image Building Through Technology and Newspapers             The National Pastime             A Spectacular Public Drama: Place and Collective Memory             Basketball: The New City Game   Part Seven · The Urban World       16  The Suburbanization of America           Nineteenth-Century Garden-Cemeteries and Parks: Precursors of Suburbia             Suburbs: The Bourgeois Utopia             Race, Suburbs, and City             Gated Communities             Suburbs and Morality            Edge Cities and Urban Sprawl             New Urbanism             From Front Porch to Backyard to Front Porch: An Assessment      17  Social Capital and Healthy Places             Robert Putnam: Bowling Alone             The Internet and Virtual Communities             Chicago’s 1995 Heat Wave             The Paris Heat Wave             Low Ground, High Ground: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina 2005             Postscript: Disaster Tourism, Politics and the Reshaping of New Orleans   18  Experiencing World Cities             World Urbanization             Modernization Theory and Global Urbanization             Development Theory: An Alternative Perspective             Cities, the Global Economy, and Inequality             World Cities, World Systems Theory, and the Informational Revolution             Squatter Settlements             Paris: Riots in Suburban Housing Projects       References     Index     Credits  

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Mark Hutter is a professor of sociology at Rowan University and has served as coordinator of the Bantivoglio Honors Program. He teaches and has an active and ongoing research agenda in both urban studies and family sociology and has extensively published and presented papers in these areas. He is the author of The Changing Family 3rd ed (Allyn and Bacon, 1998) and the editor of The Family Experience 4th ed (Allyn & Bacon, 2004). His scholarship and pedagogical involvement in the field of family studies has received international recognition with the award of the National Council on Family Relations’ Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies in 2004. He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society.

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