Social Theory and the Urban Question
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1986
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780203393161
Subjects: Urban Sociology
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Introduction to the second edition; Social theory, capitalism and the urban question; The urban as an ecological community; The urban as a cultural form; The urban as a socio-spatial system; The urban as ideology; The urban as a spatial unit of collective consumption; A non-spatial urban sociology?; From urban social theory to a sociology of consumption; Appendix A note on the empirical testing of theories; Further reading; References; Index.