Urban Sociology Images and Structure

by Flanagan, William G.

• ISBN13: 9780205335329
• ISBN10: 0205335322
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-21
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Urban Sociology provides a balanced framework for the study of the field by evaluating and integrating both ecological and political economic perspectives and examining the experiential aspect of political and economic life in cities.This book emphasizes how the urban environment shapes (rather than simply provides a backdrop for) ethnic and minority group processes, the formation of community, the political process, and criminal behavior.For anyone with an interest in sociology.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition	ix
Preface to the First Edition	xiii
Introduction	xv
An Invitation to Urban Studies	1	(28)
Conceptual Challenges in Understanding Urban Space	1	(5)
Experiencing Urban Space	6	(6)
Public Spaces and Human Behavior	6	(1)
Cities as Culture	6	(2)
Structuring Personal Experience	8	(2)
The Micro Order	10	(1)
Personal Management of the Public Experience	11	(1)
Our Love/Hate Relationship with the City	12	(7)
The True Cityphile and the Idealization of Urban Space	15	(2)
We're Number One	17	(2)
The Urban Arena: Playground and Politics	19	(10)
Cities for Fun and Profit	21	(4)
Cities and Political Expression	25	(4)
From Ancient Cities to an Urban World	29	(42)
The Emergence of the Urban Form	29	(13)
In Search of the First City: The Middle East	30	(2)
Change in the Scale of Social Organization	32	(2)
The Urban Form as Culture and the Transformation of Experience	34	(1)
The Rise of the State and the Growth of Political-Economic Power	35	(3)
The Development of Cities in China and Mesoamerica	38	(3)
The Significance of Early Urbanization	41	(1)
The Urbanization of Europe	42	(18)
The Industrial Revolution	45	(5)
The Dimensions of Urbanization in the Industrial Revolution	50	(1)
Social Organization	50	(2)
The Urban Experience in the Industrialized City	52	(5)
City and Hinterland	57	(3)
Urban Change in the Present Era	60	(11)
The Shifting Center of Urban Growth in the Twentieth Century	60	(5)
Globalization and the Place of the City	65	(1)
Social Organization	65	(1)
Culture	66	(1)
Political Order	67	(4)
The Urban Tradition in Sociology	71	(29)
The Changing Scale and the Social Order	72	(11)
The Urban Sociology of Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Oswald Spengler	77	(6)
The Urban Tradition Comes to the United States	83	(17)
The Ecology of Urban Life	83	(1)
Urbanism as a Way of Life	84	(1)
Size	85	(1)
Density	86	(1)
Heterogeneity	86	(1)
The Image of the City in the Urban Tradition and in American Culture	87	(3)
Evaluating the Urban Tradition in Sociology	90	(2)
Gender and Public Space	92	(6)
Updating the Urban Tradition	98	(2)
Community and the City	100	(23)
Urban Community Studies	101	(21)
Case Studies	105	(2)
The Reconciliation of Urbanism and Community	107	(5)
Distinguishing between Social Spaces and Social Relationships	112	(3)
Social Networks	115	(4)
The Persistence of Family Ties	119	(3)
Summary	122	(1)
Ethnicity and Minority/Majority Relations in Urban Studies	123	(43)
Ethnicity and Minority	124	(5)
The Urban Dimensions of Immigration, Ethnic Persistence, and Assimilation	129	(14)
The Elastic Qualities of Ethnicity	130	(2)
Interethnic Hostility	132	(1)
Ethnic Culture: Survival or Hybrid?	133	(2)
Urban Ethnic Enclaves	135	(3)
Institutions in the Rivalry for Peoplehood	138	(4)
Everyone an Ethnic	142	(1)
The Urban Arena and the Formation of Minority Groups	143	(23)
Population Trends and Minorities	144	(1)
African American Urbanization	145	(3)
Contemporary Immigration and the Making of Minorities	148	(1)
La Ciudad Latina	148	(8)
Asian Americans and the Problem of Scapegoating	156	(3)
Native Americans and the City	159	(4)
A Conclusion: The Recruitment of Labor and the Creation of Minorities	163	(3)
Patterns and Consequences of Urbanization in Poor Countries	166	(45)
Images of the ``Third World'' City	166	(15)
Mexico City	168	(4)
Bangkok	172	(5)
Lagos	177	(2)
Migration and Population Growth	179	(2)
Modernization and Political Economy	181	(8)
Modernization	181	(1)
Political Economy	182	(2)
Urbanization and Spatial Inequalities	184	(1)
Industrialization and Employment	185	(4)
The Challenges of Urban Growth	189	(14)
Primacy	189	(2)
Squatter Settlement	191	(4)
Comparisons of Inner-City Slums and Peripheral Squatter Settlements	195	(2)
The Informal Sector	197	(2)
Globalization and the Urban Policy Dilemma	199	(4)
Comparative Urban Studies	203	(8)
Urbanization and Kinship	204	(2)
Communities and Networks	206	(2)
Urbanization and Ethnicity	208	(3)
Urban Growth and Transitions in the United States	211	(41)
Urban Growth before the Twentieth Century	212	(9)
Early Promoters	213	(1)
The Race for Regional Domination	214	(2)
The Midwest	216	(1)
The West	217
Nineteenth Century Arenas of Wealth and Poverty	211	(8)
The Walking City	219	(1)
Early Public Transportation and the First Suburbs	220	(1)
The Expanding Metropolis; Through World War II	221	(10)
The Growing Edge	222	(2)
Metropolitanization	224	(1)
Remaking the Cities: Transportation, Government Policy, and the Wheels and Wings of Industry	224	(1)
The Automobile Age	225	(3)
The Great Depression and Urban Conditions	228	(1)
World War II and the Altered Course of Urban Growth	229	(2)
The Continuation of Urban Trends Since World War II: Patterns of Growth in Decline	231	(8)
The Federal Government's Role in Suburbanization	231	(1)
The Selling of the Suburbs	232	(3)
The Blurring of the Suburbs	235	(1)
Edge City	236	(3)
The Rise of the Sunbelt and the Crisis of the Industrial City	239	(13)
The Nature of the Sunbelt Advantage	240	(3)
Sunbelt Liabilities	243	(3)
Generalized Patterns of Growth and Decline	246	(6)
Ecology and Capitalism: Globalization and Locality	252	(38)
Urban Ecology and Urban Political Economy	253	(19)
Urban Ecology	253	(6)
Evaluating the Classical Ecological Schemes	259	(3)
Postwar Modifications in the Methods and Scope of Urban Ecology	262	(1)
Recent Concept Developments	263	(1)
Functionalist Urban Ecology	263	(1)
Interurban Ecology	264	(1)
Political Economy and Urban Sociology	265	(2)
Capital Accumulation	267	(1)
Class Conflict	268	(2)
Evaluating the Contributions of the Marxist Approach	270	(2)
The Rationalization of Space and the Emergence of Regional and Global Perspectives	272	(18)
Regional Studies	273	(1)
Nonmetropolitan Growth	274	(9)
Urban Sociology and Structural Determinism	283	(1)
Is Globalization Another Determinist Theory?	284	(2)
Human Agency and Urban Change	286	(4)
Poverty, Power, and Crime	290	(52)
The Features of Urban Poverty in the United States	290	(9)
Explaining Poverty	292	(1)
The ``Culture of Poverty'' and Its Critics	293	(3)
The Structure of Poverty	296	(3)
Patterns of Metropolitan Segregation	299	(2)
African American Suburbs	300	(1)
Race and Urban Poverty: Ecology, Culture, and the Mismatch Debate	301	(15)
The Continuing Significance of Race	305	(4)
Urban Households Headed by Women	309	(5)
The Dual-City Hypothesis	314	(2)
The Correlates of Urban Poverty: Powerlessness, Crime, and Victimization	316	(26)
Powerlessness	316	(7)
Crime and Victimization	323	(12)
A Conclusion: Structure, Culture, and the Poor	335	(7)
Urban Policy	342	(38)
The Nature of Urban Policy	342	(2)
Early Plans: The Grand Scale and the Humane Order	344	(5)
The Record of Policy in the United States	349	(18)
Housing Programs in the United States	351	(1)
Urban Renewal	351	(1)
Public Housing	352	(3)
The Renewed Search for Market Solutions to the Housing Problem	355	(2)
Urban Homesteading and Project HOPE	357	(1)
The Battle for Shelter in Contemporary America	358	(1)
Gentrification	359	(2)
Gated Communities	361	(1)
Losers in the Battle for Space: The Homeless	362	(5)
The U.S. Failure to Develop a Comprehensive Urban Policy	367	(6)
Limited Strategies	368	(1)
Model Cities	368	(1)
New Towns	369	(1)
Enterprise and Empowerment Zones	370	(3)
Urban Policy outside the United States	373	(7)
Urban Policy in Western Europe	373	(2)
Centrally Planned Economies	375	(3)
Three Dimensions of Successful Urban Policy	378	(1)
Scale	378	(1)
Comprehensiveness	378	(1)
Social Justice	379	(1)
A Unified Perspective for Urban Sociology	380	(17)
Consequences of the Division in Urban Sociology	384	(1)
Toward a Unity of Spatial Sociology	385	(4)
The Future of Urban Sociology	389	(8)
Bibliography	397	(22)
Name Index	419	(4)
Subject Index	423