People, Plans, and Policies Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems

Part One: Environment and Behavior 1. Toward a Human Architecture: A Sociologist's View of the Profession 2. The Potential Environment and the Effective Environment 3. Urban Vitality and the Fallacy of Physical Determinism Part Two: Understanding Cities and Suburbs 4. Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions 5. American Urban Theories and Urban Areas: Observations on Contemporary Ecological, Marxist, and Other Paradigms 6. The Historical Comparison of Cities: Some Conceptual, Methodological, and Value Problems 7. Robert Moses: The Master Broker Part Three: City Planning, Social Planning, and Social Policy 8. City Planning in America, 1890-1968: A Sociological Analysis 9. The Goal-Oriented Approach to Planning 10. Planning, Social Planning, and Politics 11. Social Science for Social Policy Part Four: Anti-Poverty Policies: Homes, Schools and Jobs 12. The Human Implications of Slum Clearance and Relocation 13. From the Bulldozer to Homelessness 14. The Role of Education in the Escape from Poverty 15. Planning for a Labor-Intensive Economy 16. The Thirty-Two Hour Work Week: An Analysis of Worksharing 17. The Uses of Poverty Part Five: Anti-Poverty Policies II: Race, Ethnicity, and Class 18. Escaping from Poverty: A Comparison of the Immigrant and Black Experience 19. The Black Family: Reflections on the "Moynihan Report" 20. Culture and Class in the Study of Poverty: An Approach to Antipoverty Research 21. The Dangers of the Underclass: Its Harmfulness as a Planning ConceptGans, Herbert J. is the author of 'People, Plans, and Policies Essays on Poverty, Racism, and Other National Urban Problems' with ISBN 9780231074032 and ISBN 0231074034.