num_pages: 287
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: Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side
titlecomplete: Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side (United States Local History, Bcl1)
genres: Sociology, Urban Studies, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Reprint Services Corp