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What Greer has attempted to do is to attack the perennial problems of modern urban society: traffic, suburban sprawl, the atomization of social relations, political leadership, and the decline of the central city from a fresh point of view. He manages to make more sense out of the exasperating yet fascinating problems of modern urban life than any other book this reviewer has seen in some time. --E. Digby Baltzell, Administrative Science Quarterly Greer first destroys images of the city as conceived by political scientists, urban sociologist and economists, and produces a new and more complete one which has far more relevance to reality. --The Humanist Perhaps Greer's most important contribution is his stress upon the city's ties with the broader society of which it is necessarily a part. --Gideon Sjoberg, American Sociological Review

-What Greer has attempted to do is to attack the perennial problems of modern urban society: traffic, suburban sprawl, the atomization of social relations, political leadership, and the decline of the central city from a fresh point of view. He manages to make more sense out of the exasperating yet fascinating problems of modern urban life than any other book this reviewer has seen in some time.- --E. Digby Baltzell, Administrative Science Quarterly -Greer first destroys images of the city as conceived by political scientists, urban sociologist and economists, and produces a new and more complete one which has far more relevance to reality.- --The Humanist -Perhaps Greer's most important contribution is his stress upon the city's ties with the broader society of which it is necessarily a part.- --Gideon Sjoberg, American Sociological Review What Greer has attempted to do is to attack the perennial problems of modern urban society: traffic, suburban sprawl, the atomization of social relations, political leadership, and the decline of the central city from a fresh point of view. He manages to make more sense out of the exasperating yet fascinating problems of modern urban life than any other book this reviewer has seen in some time. --E. Digby Baltzell, Administrative Science Quarterly Greer first destroys images of the city as conceived by political scientists, urban sociologist and economists, and produces a new and more complete one which has far more relevance to reality. --The Humanist Perhaps Greer's most important contribution is his stress upon the city's ties with the broader society of which it is necessarily a part. --Gideon Sjoberg, American Sociological Review What Greer has attempted to do is to attack the perennial problems of modern urban society: traffic, suburban sprawl, the atomization of social relations, political leadership, and the decline of the central city from a fresh point of view. He manages to make more sense out of the exasperating yet fascinating problems of modern urban life than any other book this reviewer has seen in some time. --E. Digby Baltzell, Administrative Science Quarterly Greer first destroys images of the city as conceived by political scientists, urban sociologist and economists, and produces a new and more complete one which has far more relevance to reality. --The Humanist Perhaps Greer's most important contribution is his stress upon the city's ties with the broader society of which it is necessarily a part. --Gideon Sjoberg, American Sociological Review

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Scott Greer was, until his death, professor of sociology and urban studies at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Before that he served as professor of sociology and political science at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Logic of Social Inquiry, also published by Transaction.

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