Metropolis Center and Symbol of Our Times

Name: Metropolis Center and Symbol of Our Times
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ISBN: 9780814746400

ISBN-10: 0814746403

ISBN-13: 9780814746400

Edition: N/A

Authors: Philip Kasinitz, Robert Jackall, Arthur J. Vidich

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The modern city is the nexus of culture, politics, and art. Despite the manifold problems cities face, more and more Americans are abandoning rural areas and relocating to urban centers. By the year 2000, 4 out of 5 Americans will live within one hour of a major city. What has prompted this emphasis on the city? Chronicling the rise of the modern city, Metropolis draws from the work of such renowned social thinkers as Georg Simmel, Lewis Mumford, Walter Benjamin, Richard Sennett, and Herbert Gans, to illustrate how and why we have come to be an urban society and what the future holds for the American city. Each of the five sections (on modernity and the urban ethos; New York City; community…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 12/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 486
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Robert Jackall has done several years of fieldwork with New York City police detectives and prosecutors, among whom he is known as "The Professor." He is the Class of 1956 Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Williams College.



Series Preface



Introduction




The Culture of Cities




The Metropolis and Mental Life




Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century




Urbanism as a Way of Life




New York is not a Completed City




The Uses of Sidewalks




In the Forest of Symbols: Some Notes on Modernism in New York




Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions




Race, Ethnicity and New Forms of Urban Community




Private, Parochial and Public Social Orders: The Problem of Crime and Incivility in Urban Communities




Community Becomes Uncivilized




City Life and Difference




Varieties and Vicissitudes of Public Space




Pleasures and Costs of Urbanity




Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom




Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space




Reclaiming Our Public Spaces




Megalopolis Unbound




The Ghetto, the State and the New Capitalist Economy




Civil Society as a Polyarchic Form: The City



Acknowledgements


Notes on the Contributors


Index