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020			_a9781119167716 (pbk)
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082			_223 _3GC _a307.76 C42 2018
100			_aChen, Xiangming _d1955
245			_aIntroduction to cities : _bhow place and space shape human experience / _cXiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum, and Krista E. Paulsen.
250			_aSecond edition
264			_aHoboken, New Jersey, USA : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc., _c©2018.
300			_axxvi, 406 pages : _billustrations (chiefly colour) ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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 as places; Exploring further 1.1; Identity, community, and security; 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 beingsCities 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 TÃœnnies: Community and society; Georg Simmel: The metropolis and mental life; TÃœnnies 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 eraTheoretical 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 cityPower, 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 methodsAnd 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.
521			_aCoED _bBachelor of Secondary Education major in Social Studies
546			_aText in English
650			_aCities and towns -- Social aspects.
650			_aSociology, Urban.
650			_aUrbanization -- Social aspects.
700			_aOrum, Anthony M.
700			_aPaulsen, Krista E.
942			_2ddc _cBK _h300-399