Urban Life in Transition

by Gottdiener, M.; Pickvance, Chris G.

• ISBN13: 9780803939752
• ISBN10: 0803939752
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-10-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

Urban Life in Transition examines the relationships between economic, political, and sociological effects of urban life suggesting that political, cultural and social changes in city affairs do not occur as a direct result of economic restructuring. Addressing a gap in the literature which neglects complex issues of urban life and governance, this book treats urban crime, drugs, racism and demographic patterns as topics on their own as well as their impact on local govenment from the mayorality to the neighbourhood level. The volume as a whole is essential reading for professionals, researchers and other academics in urban, race and policy studies and political science.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Economic Restructuring, Population Redistribution and Migration in the United States

The Changing Ethnic Shape of Contemporary Urban America

Racism and the City

Restructuring Production and Reproduction

Some Theoretical and Empirical Issues Relating to Gender or Women in Britain

Urban Communities and Crime

Household Coping Strategies in a Comparative Perspective

The Privatization of Collective Consumption

Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City

The Reshaping of Urban Leadership in US Cities

A Regime AnalysisA Walk Around Town

Closing Observations with Apologies to

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