Song of the City
Subtitle: An Intimate History of the American Urban Landscape
Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows
Published: June 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781568582030
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Current Affairs; USA; Sociology - Urban; Government - U.S. Government; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; City dwellers; American; City and town life; Philadelphia (Pa.); United States
First sentence: ON the street we feel the city's pulse.
Description: "In this account, Nathaniel Popkin brings the streets to life. Using anecdotes about the neighborhoods and people of one city, Philadelphia, he gives us a sense of the city and the force it has on its residents.

We meet a young man who, as a teenager, was shot, married, and had two children but goes on to a successful career as a rap artist and magazine publisher; two urban pioneer artists who change the face of a dilapidated neighborhood; a woman who was sexually assaulted but whose community gathers her up, supporting her through the difficult months and years that follow; and Sudanese and Puerto Rican immigrants who make their new city their own both physically and emotionally.".

"Popkin examines the different ways that people have inherited, adapted to, and altered the living city. He shows how the virtues of city life are integral to the success of American democracy. Delivered in four sections that analyze the life cycle of the city, Song of the City explores the symbiotic relationship between a city and its people.

In a style redolent with the poetry and chaotic energy of the city itself, Song of the City is a loving tribute to the thriving American urban landscape and its people."--BOOK JACKET.