Title: Changing cities : urban sociology /
Authors: Abu-Lughod, Janet L.
Publisher: HarperCollins,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Sociologie urbaine.; Sociology, Urban.; Stadssociologie.
Contents: Introducing the field -- The origin and development of cities -- The urbanization of the world, 1800 to 2000 -- The making of an urban United States -- The making of metropolitan America --- The urbanization of everybody: all the United States a city -- The Form of the city and how to discover it -- How urban spatial structures arise and change -- The "new" variables: gender and race -- The end of ecological determinism -- Community and neighborhood studies -- Networks in social space and paths through physical space: new ways to study community -- Changing theories and the research agenda -- A paradigm for studying environment and behavior in the city -- Changing cities: can their future be planned?