Experiencing Cities

by Hutter, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780205274512
• ISBN10: 020527451X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Summary

Experiencing Citiesis 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
PART ONE Historical Developments	1	(60)
Introduction to Experiencing Cities	3	(21)
The Urban World	3	(6)
Civilization and Cities	9	(1)
Microlevel Sociology and Macrolevel Sociology and Experiencing Cities	10	(1)
Symbolic Interactionism and the Study of City Life	11	(2)
W. I. Thomas: The Definition of the Situation	13	(1)
Robert E. Park: The City as a State of Mind	14	(1)
Anselm L. Strauss: Images of the City	15	(2)
Lyn Lofland: The World of Strangers and the Public Realm	17	(2)
Experiencing Cities through Symbolic Interactionism	19	(1)
Growing Up in the City: A Personal Odyssey	20	(4)
The Emergence of Cities	24	(19)
The Origin of Cities	27	(1)
The Agricultural Revolution	28	(1)
The Urban Revolution	29	(2)
Sumerian Cities	31	(2)
Trade Theory and the Origin of Cities	33	(4)
Social and Cultural Factors and the Emergence, Development, and Decline of Early Cities	37	(1)
Religion in Early Cities	38	(5)
The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology	43	(18)
The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century European Cities	46	(2)
Manchester: The Shock City of the Mid-Nineteenth Century	48	(4)
The Ideal Type: Community and Interpersonal Relationships	52	(2)
The Ideal Type: Rural and City Life	54	(5)
Henry Sumner Maine and Ferdinand Tonnies	54	(3)
Emile Durkheim	57	(1)
Max Weber	58	(1)
Simmel: Metropolis and Mental Life	59	(2)
PART TWO Disciplinary Perspectives	61	(88)
Chicago School: Urbanism and Urban Ecology	63	(25)
Chicago: The Shock City of the Early Twentieth Century	64	(2)
The Chicago School and Social Disorganization	66	(2)
Robert E. Park: Urbanism	68	(1)
The Chicago School and Urbanism	69	(1)
Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life	70	(3)
Gans: Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life	73	(3)
Claude Fischer's Subcultural Theory	76	(1)
The Chicago School and Urban Ecology	77	(1)
Ernest Burgess and the Concentric Zone Hypothesis	78	(4)
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	82	(2)
Walter Firey: Sentiment and Symbolism as Ecological Variables	84	(2)
Symbolic Interactionism and City Life: Summary Statement	86	(2)
Urban Planning	88	(32)
Burnham and the City Beautiful	90	(5)
Ebenezer Howard: The Garden City Movement	95	(3)
Radburn, New Jersey, and the Greenbelt Town of the 1930s	98	(2)
The Three Magnets Revisited	100	(2)
Wright's Broadacre City	102	(2)
Le Corbusier: Cities Without Streets	104	(3)
Futurama: General Motors and the 1939-40 New York World's Fair	107	(2)
Robert Moses: The Power Broker---New York City and Portland, Oregon	109	(3)
Edmund N. Bacon: The Redevelopment of Philadelphia	112	(3)
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities	115	(4)
Conclusion	119	(1)
Urban Political Economy, The New Urban Sociology, and The Power of Place	120	(29)
Urban Political Economy	121	(3)
David Harvey's Baltimore	124	(2)
From Chicago to LA: The LA School	126	(6)
Edge Cities	128	(1)
Privatopia	129	(1)
Culture of Heteropolis	129	(1)
City as Theme Park	129	(1)
Fortified City	130	(1)
Interdictory Spaces	130	(1)
Historical Geographies of Restructuring	130	(1)
Fordist versus Post-Fordist Regimes of Accumulation and Regulation	131	(1)
Globalization	131	(1)
Politics of Nature	132	(1)
The New Urban Sociology: The Growth Machine and the Sociospatial Perspective	132	(2)
Sharon Zukin: ``Whose Culture? Whose City?''	134	(2)
Urban Imagery, Power, and the Symbolic Meaning of Place	136	(4)
The Politics of Power and Collective Memory	140	(3)
The Power of Place Project: Los Angeles	143	(1)
Independence Hall, the National Park Service, and the Reinterpretation of History	144	(5)
PART THREE City Imagery and the Social Psychology of City Life	149	(50)
The City as a Work of Art	151	(22)
Paris and the Impressionists	153	(6)
New York City and the Ashcan School	159	(5)
Mural Art as Street and Community Art	164	(1)
Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program	165	(5)
The Murals of Los Angeles	170	(3)
The Skyscraper as Icon	173	(26)
New York City	174	(7)
The Singer Building	175	(2)
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Building	177	(1)
The Municipal Office Building	178	(1)
The Woolworth Building	179	(2)
Moscow	181	(5)
Hong Kong	186	(4)
The Attack on the World Trade Center and the Media Response	190	(9)
From Civic Criticism to Sentimental Icon: A Brief History	194	(2)
``World Trade Center'' by David Lehman	196	(1)
The Future: How Do You Reconstruct an Icon?	197	(2)
PART FOUR The Social Psychology of City Life	199	(44)
Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order	201	(20)
The Private Realm, the Parochial Realm, and the Public Realm	202	(2)
Strangers and the ``Goodness'' of the Public Realm	204	(3)
Cheers: ``Where Everybody Knows Your Name''	207	(2)
Anonymity and the Quest for Social Order	209	(4)
William H. Whyte: Public Spaces---Rediscovering the Center	213	(2)
Sharon Zukin: The Battle for Bryant Park	215	(2)
Elijah Anderson: On Being ``Streetwise''	217	(4)
``Seeing'' Disorder and the Ecology of Fear	221	(22)
The Decline of Civility in the Public Realm	221	(4)
African Americans and the Exclusion from the Public Realm	225	(4)
Wilson and Kelling: Broken Windows	229	(3)
Mitchell Duneier: Street People and Broken Windows	232	(2)
The Criminalization of Poverty	234	(1)
Mike Davis: The Ecology of Fear and the Fortressing of America	235	(1)
Surveillance of the Street	236	(2)
Sampson and Raudenbush: ``Seeing'' Disorder and the Social Construction of ``Broken Windows''	238	(5)
PART FIVE City People	243	(96)
Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies	245	(33)
Ghetto and Enclave	245	(3)
White Ethnic Enclaves	248	(4)
African American Ghettos	252	(2)
Assimilation versus Hypersegregation	254	(3)
Urban Renewal and Urban Removal	257	(3)
Project Living in Public Housing	260	(2)
Stuyvesant Town	262	(2)
Gentrification	264	(4)
Hollow City: The Gentrification of San Francisco	268	(3)
Homelessness	271	(7)
Gender Roles in the City	278	(26)
Gender and Public Space	279	(2)
Etiquette: Governing Gender Roles in the Public Sphere	281	(4)
Gender Harassment in the Public Sphere	285	(3)
Gays and Lesbians in the City	288	(7)
Urban Tribes, Gays, and the Creative Class	295	(4)
Jobs Move to Where People Are: Meet Me in St. Louis	299	(5)
City Families and Kinship Patterns	304	(35)
The Public World of the Preindustrial Family	305	(2)
The Industrial City and the Rise of the Private Family	307	(2)
The Rise of the Suburbs, the Cult of Domesticity, and the Private Family	309	(2)
The City and the Rediscovery of the Family and Urban Kinship Patterns	311	(6)
Urban Kinship Networks and the African American Family	317	(4)
Mexican Americans in Urban Barrios	321	(9)
The Suburban Working-Class and Middle-Class Family	330	(4)
The Dispersal of Kin and Kin-Work	334	(5)
PART SIX City Places	339	(52)
Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activity	341	(30)
The Downtown Department Store	342	(5)
Neighborhood Stores and Community Identification	347	(1)
Suburbia, the Mall, and the Decline of Downtown Shopping	348	(3)
Whose Stores? Whose Neighborhood?	351	(2)
New Immigrants, the Revitalization of Inner-City Stores, and the Rise of the Consumer City	353	(3)
Money Has No Smell: African Street Vendors and International Trade	356	(1)
Strategies for Main Street Redevelopment	357	(13)
Collingswood	359	(4)
Haddonfield	363	(3)
Glassboro	366	(2)
Millville	368	(2)
Conclusion	370	(1)
Baseball as Urban Drama	371	(20)
An Urban Game	373	(3)
Boosterism and Civic Pride	376	(3)
Spectators and Fan(atic)s	379	(2)
Image Building Through Technology and Newspapers	381	(3)
The National Pastime	384	(3)
A Spectacular Public Drama	387	(4)
PART SEVEN The Urban World	391	(70)
The Suburbanization of America	393	(30)
Nineteenth-Century Garden-Cemeteries and Parks: Precursors of Suburbia	394	(4)
Suburbs: The Bourgeois Utopia	398	(2)
Race, Suburbs, and City	400	(4)
Gated Communities	404	(6)
Suburbs and Morality	410	(2)
Edge Cities and Urban Sprawl	412	(5)
New Urbanism	417	(3)
From Front Porch to Backyard to Front Porch: An Assessment	420	(3)
Social Capital and Healthy Places	423	(19)
Robert Putnam: Bowling Alone	424	(2)
The Internet and Virtual Communities	426	(3)
Chicago's 1995 Heat Wave	429	(3)
The Paris Heat Wave	432	(1)
Low Ground, High Ground: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina 2005	433	(9)
Experiencing World Cities	442	(19)
World Urbanization	442	(3)
Modernization Theory and Global Urbanization	445	(1)
Development Theory: An Alternative Perspective	446	(3)
Cities, the Global Economy, and Inequality	449	(1)
World Cities, World Systems Theory, and the Informational Revolution	450	(2)
Squatter Settlements	452	(5)
Paris: Riots in Suburban Housing Projects	457	(4)
References	461	(22)
Index	483	(13)
Credits	496