Urban Sociology Images and Structure

Political, economic and cultural globalization provides the major puzzle today for those who are trying to understand what the new spatial dimensions of society will be in the Twenty-first century. Yet despite this shift to a wider analytic area, the broad outlines of issues and debates in urban sociology remain in place. Thus, in simple terms, this book engages in the old-fashioned questions of how cities make people think, feel and treat each other, while also viewing urban sociology on a global field. This book provides a balanced treatment of the ecological and political economy perspectives of urban sociology. The first half of the book focuses on the images of the traditional approach, whereas the second half concentrates on the structures that concern political economists. It is the first book to evaluate the contributions of both approaches, integrating them in one book. Subtopics include world urbanization, cohesion and conflict in the urban arena, ethnicity and minority/majority relations in urban studies, third world urbanization, the industrial city and the sunbelt crisis, urban poverty and urban policy. Sociologists, urban policy makers, urban planners and designers, and professors.Flanagan, William G. is the author of 'Urban Sociology Images and Structure' with ISBN 9780205154616 and ISBN 0205154611.