The urban sociology reader / edited by Jan Lin and Christopher Mele

Includes bibliographical references and index

General introduction Part 1 Urbanism And Community Community and Society" Ferdinand Tonnies The Metropolis and Mental Life" Georg Simmel Urbanism as a Way of Life" Louis Wirth Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions" Herbert Gan Theories of Urbanism" Claude Fischer Part 2 The Form and Function of Cities Human Ecology" Robert Park The Growth Of The City: An To A Research Project" Ernest Burgess The Natural Areas of a City" Harvey Zorbaugh Sentiment And Symbolism As Ecological Variables" Walter Firey The City as a Growth Machine" John Logan and Harvey Molotch Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate" Michael Dear Part 3 Inequality and Social Difference The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City" Loic J. D. Wacquant and William Julius Wilson Segregation and the Making of the Underclass" Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton Urban Outcasts: Stigma and Division in the Black American Ghetto and the French Urban Periphery" Loïc J. D. Wacquant The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples" Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning Men Without Property: The Tramp's Classification and Use of Urban Space" James Duncan Part 4 Gender And Sexuality City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy" Ann R. Markusen 'Race', Space, and Power: The Survival Strategies of Working Poor Women" Melissa R. Gilbert Gender and Space: Lesbians and Gay Men in the City" Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner Freeing South Africa: The "Modernization" of Male-Male Sexuality in Soweto" Donald L. Donham Part 5 Globalization and Urban Change The World City Hypothesis" John Friedmann The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization" Saskia Sassen Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global" Michael Peter Smith City Life: West African Communities in New York" Paul Stoller and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConath Globalization and the Revalorizing of Ethnic Places in Immigration Gateway Cities" Jan Lin Part 6 Culture And The Urban Economy Whose Culture? Whose City?" Sharon Zukin Cities and the Creative Class" Richard Florida Looking at Themed Environments" Mark Gottdiener Globalization, Culture and Neighborhood Change" Christopher Mele Part 7: Urban Exclusion And Social Resistance Chinatown, Part Two?: The 'Internationalization' of Downtown Los Angeles" Mike Davis Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation" Teresa P. R. Caldeira Urban Social Movements - Local Thematics, Global Spaces" Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger-Thaler and Margit Mayer Glocalizing Protest: Urban Conflicts and Global Social Movements" Bettina Kohler and Markus Wissen