Experiencing Cities
Published on 3. November 2006
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-205-27451-2 (ISBN)
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Experiencing Cities is 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
880 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-27451-2 (9780205274512)
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Mark Hutter is a professor of sociology at Rowan University and has served as coordinator of the Bantivoglio Honors Program. He teaches and has an active and ongoing research agenda in both urban studies and family sociology and has extensively published and presented papers in these areas. He is the author of The Changing Family 3rd ed (Allyn and Bacon, 1998) and the editor of The Family Experience 4th ed (Allyn & Bacon, 2004). His scholarship and pedagogical involvement in the field of family studies has received international recognition with the award of the National Council on Family Relations' Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies in 2004. He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society.
Content
PART I HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS
1. Introduction to Experiencing Cities
The Urban World
Civilization and Cities
Growing Up in the City: A Personal Odyssey
Microlevel Sociology and Macrolevel Sociology and Experiencing Cities
Symbolic Interactionism and the Study of City Life:
W.I. Thomas: The Definition of the Situation
Robert E. Park: The City as a State of Mind
Anselm Strauss: Images of the City
Lyn Lofland: The World of Strangers and the Public Realm
Experiencing Cities through Symbolic Interactionism
2. The Emergence of Cities
Introduction
The Origin of Cities
The Agricultural Revolution
The Urban Revolution
Sumerian Cities
Trade Theory and the Origin of Cities
Social and Cultural Factors and the Emergence,
Development, and Decline of Early Cities
3. The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology
The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth Century European Cities
Manchester: The ShockCity of the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The Ideal Type: Community and Interpersonal Relationships
The Ideal Type: Rural and City Life
Simmel: Metropolis and Mental Life
PART II. DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
4. Chicago School: Urban Ecology and Urbanism
Chicago: The ShockCity of the Early Twentieth Century
The ChicagoSchool and Social Disorganization
Robert E. Park: Urbanism
The ChicagoSchool and Urbanism
Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life
Gans: Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life
Claude Fischer: Subcultural Theory
The ChicagoSchool and Urban Ecology
Ernest Burgess: The Concentric Zone Hypothesis
Modifications of the Concentric Zone Hypothesis: Hoyt's Sector Model,
Harris and Ullman's Multiple Nuclei Model and
Shevky and Bell: Social Area Analysis
Walter Firey: Sentiment and Symbolism as Ecological Variables
Symbolic Interactionism and City Life: Summary Statement
5. Urban Planning
Burnham and the City Beautiful
Ebenezer Howard: The Garden City Movement
Radburn, New Jersey and the GreenbeltTown of the 1930s
The Three Magnets Revisited
Wright's BroadacreCity
Le Corbusier: Cities Without Streets
Futurama: General Motors and the 1939-40 New York World's Fair
Robert Moses: The Power Broker - New York City and Portland, Oregon
Edmund N. Bacon: The Redevelopment of Philadelphia
Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Conclusion
6. Urban Political Economy, The New Urban Sociology, and the Power of Place
Urban Political Economy
David Harvey's Baltimore From Chicago to LA: The LA School
The New Urban Sociology:
The Growth Machine and The Sociospatial Perspective
Sharon Zukin: "Whose Culture? Whose City"?
Urban Imagery, Power, and the Symbolic Meaning of Place
The Politics of Power and Collective Memory
Independence Hall, the National Park Service, and the
Reinterpretation of History
PART III. CITY IMAGERY AND THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CITY LIFE
7. The City as a Work of Art
Paris and the Impressionists
New York City and the Ashcan School
Mural Art as Street and Community Art
Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program
The Murals of Los Angeles
8. The Skyscraper as Icon
New York City
Moscow
Hong Kong
Why the WorldTradeCenter?
Conclusion
PART IV THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CITY LIFE
9. Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order
The Private Realm, The Parochial Realm, and the Public Realm
Strangers and the "Goodness" of the Public Realm
CHEERS: "Where everybody knows your name"
Anonymity and the Quest for Social Order
William H. Whyte: Public Spaces--Rediscovering the Center
Sharon Zukin: The Battle for Bryant Park
Elijah Anderson: On Being "Streetwise"
10. "Seeing" Disorder and The Ecology of Fear
The Decline in Civility in the Public Realm
African-Americans and the Exclusion from the Public Realm
Wilson and Kelling: Broken Windows
Mitchell Duneier: Street People and Broken Windows
The Criminalization of Poverty
Mike Davis: The Ecology of Fear and the Fortressing of America
Surveillance of the Streets
Sampson and Raudenbush: "Seeing" Disorder and the Social Construction of "Broken Windows"
PART V CITY PEOPLE
11. Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies
Ghetto and Enclave
White Ethnic Enclaves
African American Ghettos
Assimilation versus Hypersegregation
Urban Renewal and Urban Removal
Project-Living in Public Housing
StuyvesantTown
Gentrification
HollowCity: The Gentrification of San Francisco
Homelessness
12. Gender Roles in the City
Gender Roles and Public Space
Etiquette: Governing Gender Roles in the Public Sphere
Gender Harassment in the Public Sphere
Gays and Lesbians in the City
Urban Tribes, Gays, and the Creative Class
Jobs Move to Where People Are: Meet me in St. Louis
13. City Families and Kinship Patterns
The Public World of the Preindustrial Family
The Industrial City and the Rise of the Private Family
The Rise of the Suburbs, the Cult of Domesticity, and the Private Family
The City and the Rediscovery of the Urban Family
Urban Kinship Networks and the African-American Family
Mexican American's in Urban Barrios
The Suburban Working Class and Middle Class Family
The Dispersal of Kin and Kin-Work
PART VI: CITY PLACES
14. Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activities
The Downtown Department Store
Neighborhood Stores and Community Identification
Suburbia, The Mall, and the Decline of Downtown Shopping
Whose Stores? Whose Neighborhood?
New Immigrants, the Revitalization of Inner City Stores, and the Rise of the ConsumerCity
Money Has No Smell: African Street Vendors and International Trade
Strategies for Main Street Redevelopment
Conclusion
15. Baseball as Urban Drama
An Urban Game
Boosterism and Civic Pride
Spectators and Fan(atics)
ImageBuilding Through Technology and Newspapers
The National Pastime
A Spectacular Public Drama
PART VII: THE CITY WORLD
16. The Suburbanization of America
19th CenturyCemeteries and Parks: Precursors of Suburbia
Suburbs: The Bourgeois Utopia
Race, Suburbs and City
Gated Communities
Suburbs and Morality
EdgeCities and Urban Sprawl
New Urbanism
From Front Porch to Back Yard to Front Porch: An Assessment
17. Social Capital and Healthy Places
Robert Putnam: Bowling Alone
The Internet and Virtual Communities
Chicago's 1995 Heat Wave The Paris Heat Wave
High Ground Low Ground: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina
18. Experiencing World Cities
World Urbanization
Modernization Theory and Global Urbanization
Development Theory: An Alternative Perspective
Cities, the Global Economy and Inequality
WorldCities, World Systems Theory, and the Informational Revolution
Squatter Settlements
Paris: Riots in Suburban Housing Projects
References