The American City
Subtitle: Civic Culture in Sociohistorical Perspective
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited; Blackwell Publishers
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781557869180
Subjects: Social research & statistics; Urban communities; 20th century; Sociology; History; Social Science; USA; Sociology - Urban; Planning; CITIES AND TOWNS_UNITED STATES; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Community life; Cities and towns; City and town life; United States
First sentence: Years ago I would bring a film to class that compressed into five minutes all the traffic and pedestrians pushing through Times Square, I think, during a 24-hour period.
Description: "Does America have a sense of community and a vital civic culture? Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single people who can call themselves "Americans?" Do Americans help each other for the common good?" "Daniel J. Monti, Jr. addresses these questions in this wide-ranging volume spanning three hundred years of American civic life. He reconciles the views of liberal and conservative urbanists, and answers that "yes," Americans are indeed a community of believers, and that a viable and vital urban culture exists in the United States despite notions of division and apathy. In a series of portraits of small, medium-sized, and large American cities, Monti reveals urban America in a positive light, a place where people work together for the common good."--BOOK JACKET.