Title & Author:

The city, revisited : urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York / Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson, editors.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2011.

Description:

381 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revisiting urban theory -- Theorizing the city / Dennis R. Judd -- Grounded theory : not abstract words but tools of analysis / Janet Abu-Lughod -- The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess : same city, different visions / Daphne Spain -- The view from Los Angeles -- Urban politics and the Los Angeles school of urbanism / Michael Dear and Nicholas Dahmann -- The sun also rises in the west / Amy Bridges -- From the Chicago to the L.A. school : whither the local state? / Steven P. Erie and Scott A. MacKenzie -- The view from New York -- The rise and decline of the L.A. and New York schools / David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge -- School is out : the case of New York City / John Hull Mollenkopf -- Radical uniqueness and the flight from urban theory / Robert A. Beauregard -- The view from Chicago -- The new Chicago school of urbanism and the new Daley machine / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly -- The new Chicago school : notes toward a theory / Terry Nichols Clark -- The mayor among his peers : interpreting Richard M. Daley / Larry Bennett -- Both center and periphery : Chicago's metropolitan expansion and the new downtowns / Costas Spirou -- The utility of U.S. urban theory -- The city and its politics : informal and contested / Frank Gaffikin, David C. Perry, and Ratoola Kundu -- Understanding deep urban change : patterns of residential segregation in Latin American cities / Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo -- Studying twenty-first century cities / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly.

Summary:

This contributors to this book trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic 'The City', engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of 20th-century urban development are relevant for studying the 21st-century metropolis.

ISBN:

9780816665754 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0816665753 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780816665761 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0816665761 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban United States Case studies.
Metropolitan government United States Case studies.
Sustainable development United States Case studies.
Sociologie urbaine États-Unis Études de cas.
Développement durable États-Unis Études de cas.
71.14 urban society.
15.85 history of America.
Metropolitan government
Sociology, Urban
Sustainable development
Stadssociologie.
Lokaal bestuur.
Duurzame ontwikkeling.
Stadtsoziologie.
Stadtforschung.
United States
Verenigde Staten.
USA.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Judd, Dennis R.
Simpson, Dick, 1940-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271354
Call No.: BIB 204410
Status: Available