Urban Sociology : Images and Structure Book

Contents: Introduction. 1. An invitation to urban studies. 2. From ancient cities to an urban world. 3. The urban tradition in sociology. 4. City and community. 5. Ethnic and minority groups. 6. Patterns and consequences of urbanization in poor countries. 7. Urban growth and transitions in the United States. 8. Ecology, capitalism and the expanding scope of urban analysis. 9. Poverty, power and crime. 10. Urban policy. 11. Urban sociology: An Evolving perspective on the world. References. Index.

The fifth edition of this book presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining the urban dimensions of such topics as community formation and continuity, minority and majority dynamics, ethnic experience, poverty, power, and crime, it provides an analysis of the spatial distribution of population and resources with regard to the metropolitanization of the urban form and the interaction between urban concentration and development and underdevelopment.