num_pages: 310
description: "This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."— Christian Century
language: English
title: The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side
titlecomplete: The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side (University of Chicago Sociological Series)
genres: Sociology, Nonfiction, Urban Studies
ratings_count: 37
publisher: University of Chicago Press