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Introduction to cities how place and space shape human experience /

Main Author: Chen, Xiangming, 1955-
Other Authors: Orum, Anthony M., Paulsen, Krista E., ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 382 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Ebook Central (EBC)
Subjects:
Cities and towns -- Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization -- Social aspects.
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245 1 0 |a Introduction to cities :  |b how place and space shape human experience /  |c Xiangming Chen, Anthony M. Orum, and Krista E. Paulsen. 
264 1 |a Chichester, West Sussex, UK ;  |a Malden, MA :  |b John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.,  |c 2013. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xxv, 382 pages) :  |b illustrations. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |g Part I  |t Foundations  |g 5 --  |g 1  |t Cities as places and spaces  |g 6 --  |t Cities as places  |g 9 --  |t Exploring further 1.1  |g 11 --  |t Identity, community, and security  |g 14 --  |t Places as the site of our identity  |g 14 --  |t Places as the site of community  |g 15 --  |t Places as sites of security  |g 16 --  |t Studying the city 1.1  |g 17 --  |t Human beings make and remake places  |g 17 --  |t Place and space  |g 20 --  |t Studying the city 1.2  |g 21 --  |t Making the city better 1.1  |g 24 --  |t Cities shape the fates of human beings  |g 25 --  |t Cities and people  |g 26 --  |g 2  |t Social theories of urban space and place: The early perspectives  |g 28 --  |t Social and theoretical roots of modern urban theory  |g 29 --  |t Studying the city 2.1  |g 31 --  |t Ferdinand Tönnies: Community and society  |g 32 --  |t Georg Simmel: The metropolis and mental life  |g 33 --  |t Tönnies and Simmel: Further reflections  |g 35 --  |t Exploring further 2.1  |g 36 --  |t Chicago School of Sociology  |g 38 --  |t City as social space  |g 39 --  |t City, social change, and social order  |g 40 --  |t Studying the city 2.2  |g 42 --  |t Life in the city as a way of life  |g 44 --  |t Making the city better 2.1  |g 46 --  |t Early social theories of urban life  |g 47 --  |g 3  |t Social theories of urban space and place: Perspectives in the post-World War II era  |g 49 --  |t Theoretical descendents of Marx  |g 50 --  |t Manuel Castells and the1 urban question  |g 50 --  |t David Harvey: Injustice and inequality in the city  |g 51 --  |t John Logan and Harvey Molotch: The city as a growth machine  |g 53 --  |t Making the city better 3.1  |g 54 --  |t Making the city better 3.2  |g 56 --  |t Further reflections: Marx and the critique of modern cities  |g 57 --  |t Return to place and the turn to culture  |g 58 --  |t Jane Jacobs and the discovery of community in the modern metropolis  |g 58 --  |t Studying the city 3.1  |g 59 --  |t Sharon Zukin and the turn to culture  |g 61 --  |t Exploring further 3.1  |g 63 --  |t Going global: The 1980s and the creation of the global city  |g 66 --  |t Evaluating theories of the city  |g 69 --  |g 4  |t Methods and rules for the study of cities  |g 72 --  |t First rules for doing a social science of cities  |g 74 --  |t Rule of validity  |g 74 --  |t Rule of reliability  |g 76 --  |t Exploring further 4.1  |g 77 --  |t Cities and the question of numbers  |g 78 --  |t Studying the city 4.1 79 The city as a case study  |g 80 --  |t City as the typical case  |g 82 --  |t City as a prototypical case  |g 85 --  |t Ethnographic and historical case studies  |g 87 --  |t Ethnographic case studies  |g 87 --  |t Studying the city 4.2  |g 89 --  |t Historical case studies  |g 90 --  |t From one to multiple cases  |g 91 --  |t Studying the city 4.3  |g 94 --  |t A last but very important rule on doing a good social science of cities: Fitting good theory to good methods  |g 94 --  |t And what about insight?  |g 95 --  |g Part II  |t Changing Metropolis  |g 99 --  |g 5  |t Metropolis and its expansion: Early insights and basic principles  |g 100 --  |t Metropolitan growth: Basic features  |g 102 --  |t Metropolis and its expansion  |g 104 --  |t Center of the city  |g 105 --  |t Zone of transition  |g 106 --  |t Zone of commuters  |g 106 --  |t Assessing the concentric zone theory  |g 106 --  |t Natural areas of the city  |g 107 --  |t Alternative views of the city  |g 107 --  |t Studying the city 5.1  |g 108 --  |t Mobility of people and groups in the metropolis  |g 109 --  |t Social differences and migration in the metropolis  |g 109 --  |t Exploring further 5.1  |g 110 --  |t Migration and the expansion of the metropolis  |g 113 --  |t Metropolitan center and its links to the hinterlands  |g 115 --  |t Human agents and social institutions in the expansion of the metropolis  |g 116 --  |t Studying the city 5.2  |g 117 --  |t Making the city better 5.1  |g 120 --  |t Urban growth, institutions, and human agents  |g 121 --  |g 6  |t Origins and development of suburbs  |g 123 --  |t What is a suburb? Definitions and variations  |g 125 --  |t Alternative suburban forms  |g 127 --  |t A brief history of suburban development  |g 129 --  |t Original suburbs  |g 129 --  |t Culture and the demand for suburban living  |g 131 --  |t Making the city better 6.1  |g 133 --  |t Exploring further 6.1  |g 134 --  |t Early suburban diversity  |g 135 --  |t Transportation technologies and suburban expansion  |g 136 --  |t Making the city better 6.2  |g 139 --  |t Role of policy in suburban expansion  |g 140 --  |t Mass production of US suburbs  |g 142 --  |t Changes and challenges in contemporary suburbs  |g 144 --  |t Privatization and gated communities  |g 144 --  |t Varied fates of older suburbs  |g 147 --  |t Suburbs as places  |g 149 --  |t Studying the city 6.1  |g 151 --  |g 7  |t Changing metropolitan landscapes after World War II  |g 154 --  |t Los Angeles: The prototype of the postwar metropolis  |g 156 --  |t Exploring further 7.1  |g 160 --  |t Changing metropolitan order  |g 162 --  |t Decline -- of older industrial cities  |g 162 --  |t Rise of the postindustrial/postmodern metropolitan regions  |g 163 --  |t Importance of transportation, again  |g 164 --  |t Remaking of places and spaces: The profound human and political consequences  |g 165 --  |t Making the city better 7.1  |g 166 --  |t Emerging global economy: A brief overview  |g 168 --  |t Studying the city 7.1  |g 171 --  |t People, place, and space in a global world  |g 173 --  |g Part III  |t Metropolis and Social Inequalities  |g 177 --  |g 8  |t Early metropolis as a place of inequality  |g 178 --  |t Colonial cities as unequal places  |g 180 --  |t Early urban diversity  |g 182 --  |t Cities of immigrants  |g 184 --  |t Immigrant lives: New York's Five Points  |g 185 --  |t Studying the city 8.1  |g 189 --  |t Five Points case in context  |g 190 --  |t Early reform and intervention efforts  |g 193 --  |t Making the American ghetto  |g 193 --  |t Integrated beginnings  |g 193 --  |t Making the city better 8.1  |g 194 --  |t New neighbors, new tensions  |g 195 --  |t Perpetuation and implications of black ghettos  |g 196 --  |t Studying the city 8.2  |g 197 --  |t Exploring further 8.1  |g 199 --  |t Significance of urban diversity and inequality  |g 201 --  |g 9  |t Inequality and diversity in the post-World War II metropolis  |g 204 --  |t Inequality and the metropolis  |g 205 --  |t Poverty and race  |g 205 --  |t Exploring further 9.1  |g 207 --  |t Poverty and homelessness  |g 209 --  |t Making the city better 9.1  |g 211 --  |t Gentrification and the remaking of the metropolis  |g 212 --  |t Exploring further 9.2  |g 214 --  |t Studying the city 9.1  |g 216 --  |t Social diversity and the transformed metropolis  |g 217 --  |t New immigration and the transformation of the metropolis  |g 217 --  |t Europe  |g 217 --  |t United States and Canada  |g 219 --  |t Reconstructing the contemporary metropolis: New ethnic enclaves  |g 221 --  |t Studying the city 9.2  |g 224 --  |t Other dimensions of urban diversity  |g 226 --  |t Making the city better 9.2  |g 227 --  |t Western metropolis in flux  |g 228 --  |g Part IV  |t Metropolis in the Developing World  |g 231 --  |g 10  |t Urbanization and urban places in developing-country cities  |g 232 --  |t Urbanization: The basic path and its impact on place  |g 233 --  |t Developing-country cities in historical perspective  |g 235 --  |t Studying the city 10.1  |g 236 --  |t Basic dimensions of urbanization  |g 237 --  |t Urban hierarchy  |g 237 --  |t Urban primacy  |g 239 --  |t Over-urbanization versus under-urbanization  |g 239 --  |t Studying the city 10.2  |g 241 --  |t Natural increase and in-migration  |g 242 --  |t From process and system to place  |g 243 --  |t A basic profile with multiple wrinkles  |g 243 --  |t Megacities as places: Opportunities and challenges  |g 245 --  |t Size and density  |g 245 --  |t Creating wealth and sustaining poverty  |g 246 --  |t Exploring further 10.1  |g 250 --  |t Making the city better 10.1  |g 251 --  |t Developing megacity as a lived place  |g 252 --  |t Making the city better 10.2  |g 255 --  |t Governing the megacities  |g 255 --  |t Studying the city 10.3  |g 256 --  |t Reassessing the developing city  |g 258 --  |g 11  |t Cities in the global economy  |g 261 --  |t Cities in a globalizing world: Theoretical background  |g 262 --  |t Emerging cities in the global economy  |g 264 --  |t Yiwu, China  |g 264 --  |t Rajarhat, India  |g 265 --  |t Further Reflections on Yiwu  |g 268 --  |t Re-emerging cities in the global economy  |g 269 --  |t Berlin, Germany: A once-prosperous, then challenged, and now re-emerging local culture  |g 269 --  |t Shanghai, China: Local change in a rising renaissance city  |g 271 --  |t Moving more deeply into the global economy  |g 275 --  |t Dongguan, 
505 0 0 |t China: A place transformed from a rural township into a global factory-city  |g 275 --  |t Studying the city 11.1  |g 278 --  |t Dubai, United Arab Emirates: From desert to urban miracle to mirage  |g 279 --  |t Cities in a fully networked global economy  |g 281 --  |t Regional dimension and mediation of cities  |g 281 --  |t Becoming globally networked  |g 284 --  |t Exploring further 11.1  |g 285 --  |t Interdependence between cities and the global economy  |g 287 --  |t Studying the city 11.2  |g 288 --  |t Systematic constraint and individual flexibility  |g 289 --  |t Global restructuring of cities  |g 290 --  |t Making the city better 11.1  |g 291 --  |g Part V  |t Challenges of Today and the Metropolis Of The Future  |g 295 --  |g 12  |t Urban environments and sustainability  |g 296 --  |t Making use of nature  |g 297 --  |t Natural attributes and urban development  |g 297 --  |t Interpreting and manipulating nature  |g 298 --  |t Studying the city 12.1  |g 301 --  |t Inviting "disaster"  |g 302 --  |t Why rebuild?  |g 303 --  |t Urban environments  |g 307 --  |t Local environmental concerns  |g 308 --  |t Making the city better 12.1  |g 308 --  |t Environment and inequality  |g 310 --  |t Making the city better 12.2  |g 311 --  |t Global environmental concerns  |g 312 --  |t Urbanization's environmental impacts  |g 313 --  |t Cities and climate change  |g 313 --  |t Addressing environmental issues: Toward sustainability  |g 315 --  |t Exploring further 12.1  |g 317 --  |g 13  |t Remaking and future of cities  |g 321 --  |t Between place and space: Reinforcing a theoretical vision  |g 322 --  |t Remaking cities from above and at critical moments  |g 324 --  |t Crisis of Detroit  |g 324 --  |t Remaking of Detroit  |g 326 --  |t Making the city better 13.1  |g 327 --  |t Place-remaking on a larger scale  |g 328 --  |t Daily place-remaking from below  |g 330 --  |t Remaking neighborhoods and communities  |g 331 --  |t Remaking of Brooklyn, New York  |g 331 --  |t From Detroit and New York to China and Shanghai -- again  |g 332 --  |t Remaking cities for the future  |g 334 --  |t Scaling up and looking forward  |g 334 --  |t Studying the city 13.1. 
505 0 0 |g 335 --  |t China and India scenarios and their wider implications  |g 336 --  |t Cities of the future and the future of cities  |g 340 --  |t Making the city better 13.2  |g 341 --  |t Making the city better 13.3  |g 344 --  |t Exploring further 13.1  |g 346 --  |t A final look at the twenty-first-century city  |g 347. 
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