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Summary Table of Contents

Experiencing Cities is an introduction to urban sociology based heavily on microsociology and symbolic interaction theoryemphasizing the way people experience the urban world in their everyday lives, interact with one another, and create meaning from the physical and human environments of their cities.

Preface

PART ONE Historical Developments

(60)

Introduction to Experiencing Cities

(21)

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The Urban World

(6)

Civilization and Cities

(1)

Microlevel Sociology and Macrolevel Sociology and Experiencing Cities

(1)

Symbolic Interactionism and the Study of City Life

(2)

W. I. Thomas: The Definition of the Situation

(1)

Robert E. Park: The City as a State of Mind

(1)

Anselm L. Strauss: Images of the City

(2)

Lyn Lofland: The World of Strangers and the Public Realm

(2)

Experiencing Cities through Symbolic Interactionism

(1)

Growing Up in the City: A Personal Odyssey

(4)

The Emergence of Cities

(19)

The Origin of Cities

(1)

The Agricultural Revolution

(1)

The Urban Revolution

(2)

Sumerian Cities

(2)

Trade Theory and the Origin of Cities

(4)

Social and Cultural Factors and the Emergence, Development, and Decline of Early Cities

(1)

Religion in Early Cities

(5)

The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology

(18)

The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century European Cities

(2)

Manchester: The Shock City of the Mid-Nineteenth Century

(4)

The Ideal Type: Community and Interpersonal Relationships

(2)

The Ideal Type: Rural and City Life

(5)

Henry Sumner Maine and Ferdinand Tonnies

(3)

Emile Durkheim

(1)

Max Weber

(1)

Simmel: Metropolis and Mental Life

(2)

PART TWO Disciplinary Perspectives

(88)

Chicago School: Urbanism and Urban Ecology

(25)

Chicago: The Shock City of the Early Twentieth Century

(2)

The Chicago School and Social Disorganization

(2)

Robert E. Park: Urbanism

(1)

The Chicago School and Urbanism

(1)

Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life

(3)

Gans: Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life

(3)

Claude Fischer's Subcultural Theory

(1)

The Chicago School and Urban Ecology

(1)

Ernest Burgess and the Concentric Zone Hypothesis

(4)

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

(2)

Walter Firey: Sentiment and Symbolism as Ecological Variables

(2)

Symbolic Interactionism and City Life: Summary Statement

(2)

Urban Planning

(32)

Burnham and the City Beautiful

(5)

Ebenezer Howard: The Garden City Movement

(3)

Radburn, New Jersey, and the Greenbelt Town of the 1930s

(2)

The Three Magnets Revisited

100

(2)

Wright's Broadacre City

102

(2)

Le Corbusier: Cities Without Streets

104

(3)

Futurama: General Motors and the 1939-40 New York World's Fair

107

(2)

Robert Moses: The Power Broker---New York City and Portland, Oregon

109

(3)

Edmund N. Bacon: The Redevelopment of Philadelphia

112

(3)

Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

115

(4)

Conclusion

119

(1)

Urban Political Economy, The New Urban Sociology, and The Power of Place

120

(29)

Urban Political Economy

121

(3)

David Harvey's Baltimore

124

(2)

From Chicago to LA: The LA School

126

(6)

Edge Cities

128

(1)

Privatopia

129

(1)

Culture of Heteropolis

129

(1)

City as Theme Park

129

(1)

Fortified City

130

(1)

Interdictory Spaces

130

(1)

Historical Geographies of Restructuring

130

(1)

Fordist versus Post-Fordist Regimes of Accumulation and Regulation

131

(1)

Globalization

131

(1)

Politics of Nature

132

(1)

The New Urban Sociology: The Growth Machine and the Sociospatial Perspective

132

(2)

Sharon Zukin: ``Whose Culture? Whose City?''

134

(2)

Urban Imagery, Power, and the Symbolic Meaning of Place

136

(4)

The Politics of Power and Collective Memory

140

(3)

The Power of Place Project: Los Angeles

143

(1)

Independence Hall, the National Park Service, and the Reinterpretation of History

144

(5)

PART THREE City Imagery and the Social Psychology of City Life

149

(50)

The City as a Work of Art

151

(22)

Paris and the Impressionists

153

(6)

New York City and the Ashcan School

159

(5)

Mural Art as Street and Community Art

164

(1)

Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program

165

(5)

The Murals of Los Angeles

170

(3)

The Skyscraper as Icon

173

(26)

New York City

174

(7)

The Singer Building

175

(2)

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Building

177

(1)

The Municipal Office Building

178

(1)

The Woolworth Building

179

(2)

Moscow

181

(5)

Hong Kong

186

(4)

The Attack on the World Trade Center and the Media Response

190

(9)

From Civic Criticism to Sentimental Icon: A Brief History

194

(2)

``World Trade Center'' by David Lehman

196

(1)

The Future: How Do You Reconstruct an Icon?

197

(2)

PART FOUR The Social Psychology of City Life

199

(44)

Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order

201

(20)

The Private Realm, the Parochial Realm, and the Public Realm

202

(2)

Strangers and the ``Goodness'' of the Public Realm

204

(3)

Cheers: ``Where Everybody Knows Your Name''

207

(2)

Anonymity and the Quest for Social Order

209

(4)

William H. Whyte: Public Spaces---Rediscovering the Center

213

(2)

Sharon Zukin: The Battle for Bryant Park

215

(2)

Elijah Anderson: On Being ``Streetwise''

217

(4)

``Seeing'' Disorder and the Ecology of Fear

221

(22)

The Decline of Civility in the Public Realm

221

(4)

African Americans and the Exclusion from the Public Realm

225

(4)

Wilson and Kelling: Broken Windows

229

(3)

Mitchell Duneier: Street People and Broken Windows

232

(2)

The Criminalization of Poverty

234

(1)

Mike Davis: The Ecology of Fear and the Fortressing of America

235

(1)

Surveillance of the Street

236

(2)

Sampson and Raudenbush: ``Seeing'' Disorder and the Social Construction of ``Broken Windows''

238

(5)

PART FIVE City People

243

(96)

Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies

245

(33)

Ghetto and Enclave

245

(3)

White Ethnic Enclaves

248

(4)

African American Ghettos

252

(2)

Assimilation versus Hypersegregation

254

(3)

Urban Renewal and Urban Removal

257

(3)

Project Living in Public Housing

260

(2)

Stuyvesant Town

262

(2)

Gentrification

264

(4)

Hollow City: The Gentrification of San Francisco

268

(3)

Homelessness

271

(7)

Gender Roles in the City

278

(26)

Gender and Public Space

279

(2)

Etiquette: Governing Gender Roles in the Public Sphere

281

(4)

Gender Harassment in the Public Sphere

285

(3)

Gays and Lesbians in the City

288

(7)

Urban Tribes, Gays, and the Creative Class

295

(4)

Jobs Move to Where People Are: Meet Me in St. Louis

299

(5)

City Families and Kinship Patterns

304

(35)

The Public World of the Preindustrial Family

305

(2)

The Industrial City and the Rise of the Private Family

307

(2)

The Rise of the Suburbs, the Cult of Domesticity, and the Private Family

309

(2)

The City and the Rediscovery of the Family and Urban Kinship Patterns

311

(6)

Urban Kinship Networks and the African American Family

317

(4)

Mexican Americans in Urban Barrios

321

(9)

The Suburban Working-Class and Middle-Class Family

330

(4)

The Dispersal of Kin and Kin-Work

334

(5)

PART SIX City Places

339

(52)

Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activity

341

(30)

The Downtown Department Store

342

(5)

Neighborhood Stores and Community Identification

347

(1)

Suburbia, the Mall, and the Decline of Downtown Shopping

348

(3)

Whose Stores? Whose Neighborhood?

351

(2)

New Immigrants, the Revitalization of Inner-City Stores, and the Rise of the Consumer City

353

(3)

Money Has No Smell: African Street Vendors and International Trade

356

(1)

Strategies for Main Street Redevelopment

357

(13)

Collingswood

359

(4)

Haddonfield

363

(3)

Glassboro

366

(2)

Millville

368

(2)

Conclusion

370

(1)

Baseball as Urban Drama

371

(20)

An Urban Game

373

(3)

Boosterism and Civic Pride

376

(3)

Spectators and Fan(atic)s

379

(2)

Image Building Through Technology and Newspapers

381

(3)

The National Pastime

384

(3)

A Spectacular Public Drama

387

(4)

PART SEVEN The Urban World

391

(70)

The Suburbanization of America

393

(30)

Nineteenth-Century Garden-Cemeteries and Parks: Precursors of Suburbia

394

(4)

Suburbs: The Bourgeois Utopia

398

(2)

Race, Suburbs, and City

400

(4)

Gated Communities

404

(6)

Suburbs and Morality

410

(2)

Edge Cities and Urban Sprawl

412

(5)

New Urbanism

417

(3)

From Front Porch to Backyard to Front Porch: An Assessment

420

(3)

Social Capital and Healthy Places

423

(19)

Robert Putnam: Bowling Alone

424

(2)

The Internet and Virtual Communities

426

(3)

Chicago's 1995 Heat Wave

429

(3)

The Paris Heat Wave

432

(1)

Low Ground, High Ground: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina 2005

433

(9)

Experiencing World Cities

442

(19)

World Urbanization

442

(3)

Modernization Theory and Global Urbanization

445

(1)

Development Theory: An Alternative Perspective

446

(3)

Cities, the Global Economy, and Inequality

449

(1)

World Cities, World Systems Theory, and the Informational Revolution

450

(2)

Squatter Settlements

452

(5)

Paris: Riots in Suburban Housing Projects

457

(4)

References

461

(22)

Index

483

(13)

Credits

496

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