The Social Control of Cities
Subtitle: A Comparative Perspective (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
Publisher: Blackwell Pub
Published: January 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780631205203
Subjects: Poverty; Social impact of disasters; Social research & statistics; Urban Sociology; Social Science; Sociology; Industrialized / developed countries; Sociology - Urban; Marginality, Social; Social control; Urban economics; Urban poor
First sentence: The purpose of this chapter is to test the possible correlation between the impact of the globalization of the economy on the city, the growth of inequalities and of power conflicts, and the violence and crime which may ensue in specific segregated urban areas.