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The Urban World,9780070481688
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The Urban World


Author(s): PALEN
ISBN10:  0070481687
ISBN13:  9780070481688
Format:  Hardcover
Pub. Date:  8/1/1996
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill College

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Table of Contents
List of Special Section
xi
About the Author xii
Preface xiii
Part One: Focus and Development 1(60)
The Urban World
2(18)
Introduction: The Process of Urbanization
3(3)
The History of Urban Explosion
6(1)
Defining Urban Areas
7(2)
Urbanization and Urbanism
9(3)
Organizing the Study of Urban Life
12(2)
Concepts of the City
14(6)
Emergence of Cities
20(41)
Introduction
21(1)
The Ecological Complex
21(3)
Political Economic Models
24(1)
First Settlements
25(4)
Interactions of Population, Organization, Environment, and Technology (POET)
29(1)
City Populations
30(1)
Evolution in Social Organization
31(2)
Technological and Social Evolution
33(1)
Urban Revolution
34(1)
Survival of the City
35(1)
The Hellenic City
36(3)
Rome
39(3)
European Urbanization until the Industrial City
42(13)
Industrial Cities
55(6)
Part Two: American Urbanization 61(94)
The Rise of Urban America
62(27)
Introduction
63(1)
Colonists as Town Builders
63(1)
Major Settlements
64(3)
Colonial Urban Influence
67(1)
The Growing New Republic: 1790-1860
68(4)
The Industrial City: 1860-1950
72(7)
Political Life
79(5)
Urban Imagery
84(5)
Structure and Organization of American Cities
89(20)
Introduction
90(1)
Ecological Model
90(1)
Early Human Ecology
91(3)
Burgess's Growth Hypothesis
94(8)
Alternative Theories
102(1)
Urban Growth outside North America
103(3)
A Note on Ecological Methodology
106(3)
Urban Political Economy
109(20)
David A. Smith
Michael F. Timberlake
The Rise of Urban Political Economy Theory
111(1)
World System
112(3)
Assumptions of the Urban Political Economy Perspective
115(2)
Using The Urban Political Economy Approach: Research Findings
117(9)
Future Directions for Urban Political Economy
126(3)
Metropolitan and Edge-City Growth
129(26)
Introduction
130(1)
Metropolitan Urban Growth
130(3)
Decentralization of Population within Metropolitan Areas
133(14)
Nonmetropolitan Growth
147(2)
The Rise of the Sun Belt
149(6)
Part Three: Urban and Suburban Life 155(140)
City Life-Style
156(21)
Introduction
157(1)
Characteristics of Urban Populations
158(2)
Social Psychology of Urban Life
160(4)
Reevaluation of Urbanism and Social Disorganization
164(2)
Diverse Life-Styles
166(10)
Urban Life-Styles
176(1)
Social Environment of the City: Strangers, Neighbors, Crowding, Crime, and Homelessness
177(20)
Introduction
178(1)
Dealing with Strangers
178(1)
Codes of Behavior
179(3)
Defining Community
182(1)
Categories of Local Communities
183(2)
Density and Crowding
185(4)
Urban Crime
189(4)
Homelessness in the City
193(4)
Changing Suburbanization Patterns
197(35)
Introduction
198(1)
The New Suburban Dominance
198(1)
Emergence of Suburbs
199(6)
Causes of Suburbanization
205(3)
Contemporary Suburbia
208(1)
Categories of Suburbs
209(8)
Exurbs
217(1)
Rurban Areas
218(1)
Characteristics of Suburbanites
218(1)
The Myth of Suburbia
219(4)
African-American Suburbanization
223(4)
Hispanic Suburbanization
227(1)
Asian Suburbs
228(1)
The Future?
229(3)
Ethnic Diversity: Ethnics, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans
232(36)
Introduction: Urban Minorities
233(1)
White Ethnics
233(8)
African Americans
241(10)
Hispanic Population
251(7)
Native Americans
258(3)
Asian Americans
261(7)
Women in Metropolitan Life
268(27)
Christine Wright-Isak
Sylvia Fava
Introduction
269(2)
Historical Patterns: Invisible Women and Contradictory Images
271(3)
The ``Thereness'' of Women: Taking Gender for Granted in Urban Studies
274(1)
Urban Poor Women
275(3)
Wealthy Women
278(1)
Women in Ethnic Urban Life: Honor and the American Dream
278(2)
Working-and Middle-Class Women: Protecting One's Turf
280(1)
The ``Other'' Form of Metropolitan Community: Suburbia
281(4)
Women's Place, Women's Space: Gender Geography
285(4)
Urban Location and Female Equality: Cross Cultural Similarities
289(1)
New Directions: Women in Urban Public Space
290(3)
Women in Metropolitan Areas in the Twenty-First Century
293(2)
Part Four: Problems, Housing, and Planning 295(76)
The Question of Urban Crisis
296(20)
Introduction
297(1)
Urban Revival: Antithesis
298(1)
Crisis Again?
299(1)
A Neo-Marxist Approach
299(1)
Some Problem Areas
300(5)
Neighborhood Revival
305(6)
Why is Gentrification or Revitalization Taking Place?
311(2)
Displacement of the Poor
313(1)
Revitalization of Inner Cities
314(2)
Housing and the Community
316(19)
Status as the Century Ends
317(2)
Changing Federal Role
319(2)
Federal Housing Administration Subsidies
321(1)
Upper-and Middle-Class Housing Subsidies
322(1)
Urban Redevelopment
323(4)
Abandonment of Buildings
327(1)
Burning for Profit
328(1)
Urban Homesteading
329(2)
Tax Credits
331(1)
The Use of Space
331(4)
Planning in the United States and Elsewhere
335(36)
Introduction: Historical Background
336(2)
American Planning
338(6)
Twentieth-Century Patterns
344(9)
Urban Planning in Europe
353(5)
New Towns
358(7)
American New Towns
365(6)
Part Five: Worldwide Urbanization 371(94)
Less-Developed Countries
372(16)
The Urban Explosion
373(3)
LDC Increases
376(1)
Rich Countries and Poor Countries: Some
377(1)
Characteristics of Poorer Third World Cities
378(8)
The Future
386(2)
Asian Urban Patterns
388(29)
Asian Cities
389(2)
India
391(6)
China
397(11)
Japan
408(4)
Southeast Asia
412(3)
Overview
415(2)
African and Middle Eastern Urbanization
417(27)
Africa
418(3)
City Development
421(16)
The Middle East
437(7)
Urbanization in Latin America
444(21)
An Urban Continent
445(1)
Spanish Colonial Cities
445(4)
Evolving Patterns
449(2)
Recent Developments
451(12)
A Success Story
463(1)
Importance to the United States
464(1)
Part Six: Conclusion 465(22)
Toward the Urban Future
466(21)
Recapitulation
467(1)
Major Issues and Questions
468(7)
Planning for the Future City
475(9)
The ``Postcity'' Age
484(3)
Bibliography 487(30)
Name Index 517(7)
Subject Index 524

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