Experiencing cities

Preface pt. 1. Historical developments 1. Introduction to experiencing cities The urban world Civilization and cities Microlevel sociology and macrolevel sociology and experiencing cities Symbolic interactionism and the study of city life W.I. Thomas : the definition of the situation Robert E. Park : the city as a state of mind Anselm L. Strauss : images of the city Lyn Lofland : the world of strangers and the public realm Experiencing cities through symbolic interactionism Growing up in the city : a personal odyssey 2. The emergence of cities The origin of cities The Agricultural Revolution The urban revolution Sumerian cities Trade theory and the origin of cities Social and cultural factors and the emergence, development, and decline of early cities Religion in early cities 3. The Industrial Revolution and the rise of urban sociology The Industrial Revolution and nineteenth-century European cities Manchester : the shock city of the mid-nineteenth century The ideal type : community and interpersonal relationships The ideal type : rural and city life Henry Sumner Maine and Ferdinand Tönnies Emile Durkheim Max Weber Simmel : metropolis and mental life

pt. 2. Disciplinary perspectives 4. Chicago School : urbanism and urban ecology Chicago : the shock city of the early twentieth century The Chicago School and social disorganization Robert E. Park : urbanism The Chicago School and urbanism Louis Wirth : urbanism as a way of life Gans : urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life Claude Fischer's subcultural theory The Chicago School and urban ecology Ernest Burgess and the concentric zone hypothesis Modifications of the concentric zone hypothesis : Hoyt's sector model, Harris and Ullman's multiple nuclei model, and Shevky and Bell's social area analysis Walter Firey : sentiment and symbolism as ecological variables Symbolic interactionism and city life : summary statement 5. Urban planning Burnham and the city beautiful Ebenezer Howard : the garden city movement Radburn, New Jersey, and the greenbelt town of the 1930s The three magnets revisited Wright's Broadacre City Le Corbusier : cities without streets Futurama : General Motors and the 1939-40 New York World's Fair Robert Moses : the power broker, New York City and Portland, Oregon Edmund N. Bacon : the redevelopment of Philadelphia Jane Jacobs : the death and life of great American cities Conclusion 6. Urban political economy, the new urban sociology, and the power of place Urban political economy David Harvey's Baltimore From Chicago to LA : the LA school Edge cities Privatopia Culture of heteropolis City as theme park Fortified city Interdictory spaces Historical geographies of restructuring Fordist versus post-Fordist regimes of accumulation and regulation Globalization Politics of nature The new urban sociology : the growth machine and the sociospatial perspective Sharon Zukin : "Whose culture? Whose city?" Urban imagery, power, and the symbolic meaning of place The politics of power and collective memory The Power of Place Project : Los Angeles Independence Hall, the National Park Service, and the reinterpretation of history

pt. 3. City imagery and the social psychology of city life 7. The city as a work of art Paris and the impressionists New York City and the Ashcan School Mural art as street and community art Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program The murals of Los Angeles 8. The skyscraper as icon New York City The Singer Building The Metropolitan Life Insurance Building The Municipal Office Building The Woolworth Building Moscow Hong Kong The attack on the World Trade Center and the media response From civic criticism to sentimental icon : a brief history "World Trade Center" / David Lehman The future : how do you reconstruct an icon?

pt. 4. The social psychology of city life 9. Experiencing strangers and the quest for public order The private realm, the parochial realm, and the public realm Strangers and the "goodness" of the public realm Cheers : "where everybody knows your name" Anonymity and the quest for social order William H. Whyte : public spaces, rediscovering the center Sharon Zukin : the battle for Bryant Park Elijah Anderson : on being "streetwise" 10. "Seeing" disorder and the ecology of fear The decline of civility in the public realm African Americans and the exclusion from the public realm Wilson and Kelling : broken windows Mitchell Duneier : street people and broken windows The criminalization of poverty Mike Davis : the ecology of fear and the fortressing of America Surveillance of the street Sampson and Raudenbush : "seeing" disorder and the social construction of "broken windows"

pt. 5. City people 11. Urban enclaves and ghettos : social policies Ghetto and enclave White ethnic enclaves African American ghettos Assimilation versus hypersegregation Urban renewal and urban removal Project living in public housing Stuyvesant Town Gentrification Hollow city : the gentrification of San Francisco Homelessness 12. Gender roles in the city Gender and public space Etiquette : governing gender roles in the public sphere Gender harassment in the public sphere Gays and lesbians in the city Urban tribes, gays, and the creative class Jobs move to where people are : meet me in St. Louis 13. City families and kinship patterns The public world of the preindustrial family The industrial city and the rise of the private family The rise of the suburbs, the cult of domesticity, and the private family The city and the rediscovery of the family and urban kinship patterns Urban kinship networks and the African American family Mexican Americans in urban barrios The suburban working-class and middle-class family The dispersal of kin and kin-work

pt. 6. City places 14. Downtown stores : shopping as community activity The downtown department store Neighborhood stores and community identification Suburbia, the mall, and the decline of downtown shopping Whose stores? Whose neighborhood? New immigrants, the revitalization of inner-city stores, and the rise of the consumer city Money has no smell : African street vendors and international trade Strategies for main street redevelopment Collingswood Haddonfield Glassboro Millville Conclusion 15. Baseball as urban drama An urban game Boosterism and civic pride Spectators and fan(atic)s Image building through technology and newspapers The national pastime A spectacular public drama

pt. 7. The urban world

16. The suburbanization of America

Nineteenth-century garden-cemeteries and parks : precursors of suburbia

Suburbs : the bourgeois utopia

Race, suburbs, and city

Gated communities

Suburbs and morality

Edge cities and urban sprawl

New urbanism

From front porch to backyard to front porch : an assessment

17. Social capital and healthy places

Robert Putnam : bowling alone

The Internet and virtual communities

Chicago's 1995 heat wave

The Paris heat wave

Low ground, high ground : New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina 2005

18. Experiencing world cities

World urbanization

Modernization theory and global urbanization

Development theory : an alternative perspective

Cities, the global economy, and inequality

World cities, world systems theory, and the informational revolution

Squatter settlements

Paris : riots in suburban housing projects

References

Index

Credits.