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Cities, Change, and Conflict A Political Economy of Urban Life (with InfoTrac)

by: Kleniewski, Nancy

Cities, Change, and Conflict A Political Economy of Urban Life (with InfoTrac)

by: Kleniewski, Nancy

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9780534539191
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Copyright: 07/20/2001
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This text discusses the importance of cities for the economic, cultural, and political life of modern societies. The author consistently uses the political economy perspective to introduce students to the basic concepts and research in urban sociology, while also acknowledging the contributions of the human ecology perspective. Through the use of case studies, the presentation remains accessible and down-to-earth.

Preface

xvii

I THINKING ABOUT CITIES

(48)

Examining Urban Issues

(21)

Attitudes About Cities

(2)

Some Urban Myths

(1)

Box 1.1 Spotlight: The City as a Magnet for Youth

(5)

Political Economy Perspective

(3)

Cities, Change, and Conflict: Three Applications

(5)

The Forbidden City Within Los Angeles

(3)

Criminalizing Homelessness

(2)

Box 1.2 Case Study: Project H.O.M.E.'s Campaign Against Homelessness

(4)

Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

(2)

Box 1.3 Case Study: Environmental Justice in Chicago

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Resources on the Internet

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

(1)

Online Exercises

(1)

InfoTrac® College Edition

(1)

About Using the Internet for Research

(2)

Tips for Searching on the Internet

(1)

Evaluating Information on the Web

(1)

Citing Electronic Sources

(1)

Government Sources

(1)

Theoretical Perspectives on The City

(25)

Theories and Paradigms

(1)

Urban Ecology Paradigm

(10)

Antecedents: Tonnies, Durkheim, and Simmel

(2)

The Chicago School

(6)

Contributions and Critique

(2)

Political Economy Paradigm

(8)

Antecedents: Marx, Engels, and Weber

(2)

Emergence of Urban Political Economy

(2)

Promise and Limitations of Political Economy

(4)

Box 2.1 Spotlight: Perspectives on Urban Ghettos

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Resources on the Internet

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

(1)

Online Exercises

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

(2)

II THE CHANGING CITY: HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

(122)

Cities in World History

(23)

Origins of Cities

(5)

Early Urban Centers

(1)

What Makes Them Cities?

(3)

Ancient Cities, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 300

(3)

Physical Features of Ancient Cities

(2)

Social Patterns in Ancient Cities

(1)

Cities Outside of Europe

(1)

Cities of the Near East

(1)

Box 3.1 Spotlight: Islamic Cities

(2)

Cities of the Far East

(1)

Box 3.2 Case Study: Cities in China's Chou Dynasty

(1)

Cities of the Americas

(1)

Box 3.3 Case Study: City Planning in Teotihuacan

(1)

Medieval Cities in Europe

(3)

Feudalism and the Growth of Towns

(1)

Social Institutions

(2)

Pressures on the System

(1)

Growth of Capitalism and the Industrial City

(4)

Cities Built on Trade

(1)

World-Economy

(1)

Early Industrial Cities

(2)

Conclusion

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Resources on the Internet

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

(1)

Online Exercises

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

(1)

Urban Development in the United States

(25)

A Brief History of Cities of the United States

(7)

The Commercial City

(3)

The Industrial City

(1)

The Corporate City

(2)

Explaining Urban Patterns

(3)

Ecological Explanations

(2)

Political Economic Explanations

(1)

Process of Urban Growth and Change

(7)

City Builders: Property Capitalists

(2)

Local Government Officials

(1)

Corporations

(2)

Regional Differences in Growth and Development

(4)

The South

(1)

New England

(1)

California

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Discussion Questions

(1)

Resources on the Internet

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

(1)

Online Exercises

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

(1)

Cities, Suburbs, and Metropolitan Areas

(26)

Changes in Metropolitan Areas Since 1950

(1)

Growth of Suburbs and Metropolitan Areas

100

(10)

Policy Choices by the Federal Government

101

(2)

Local Political Choices: To Annex or Not to Annex?

103

(4)

Corporate Decisions: New Industrial Spaces

107

(1)

Social Consequences of Suburbanization

108

(2)

Restructuring the Central Cities

110

(6)

Transformation of the Central Business Districts

111

(2)

Social Transformation of the Cities

113

(3)

Box 5.1 Case Study: The Process of Gentrification in New York's East Village

116

(1)

Explaining Urban Transformations

117

(1)

The United States in the World Economy

117

(1)

Box 5.2 Case Study: Restructuring of the Metropolitan Los Angeles Economy

118

(4)

Government Responses to Economic Changes

121

(1)

Conclusion

122

(1)

Discussion Questions

123

(1)

Resources on the Internet

123

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

123

(1)

Online Exercises

124

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

124

(1)

Cities in Europe

125

(27)

Cities in Western Europe

126

(2)

Comparisons with North American Cities

127

(1)

Box 6.1 Spotlight: Super Cities

128

(9)

Factors Affecting Western European Cities

129

(5)

Emerging Problems in Western European Cities

134

(3)

Cities in Eastern and Central Europe

137

(3)

Urban Planning

138

(1)

Housing

139

(1)

Box 6.2 Case Study: Planning for Moscow as a Communist Mecca

140

(1)

Box 6.3 Case Study: The International Scene in Prague

141

(3)

Economic Restructuring

142

(1)

Environmental Challenges

142

(2)

Globalization and Global Cities

144

(5)

The Process of Globalization

144

(1)

Globalization and Politics

145

(1)

Global Cities

146

(1)

Characteristics of Global Cities

147

(1)

Increasing Similarities Among Global Cities

147

(2)

Box 6.4 Case Study: Tokyo is Number One

149

(1)

Conclusion

149

(1)

Discussion Questions

150

(1)

Resources on the Internet

150

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

150

(1)

Online Exercises

151

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

151

(1)

Cities in the Third World

152

(19)

Characteristics of Third World Cities

152

(4)

Urban Population Trends

153

(2)

Economic and Political Trends

155

(1)

Box 7.1 Spotlight: The Urban-Rural Gap

156

(1)

Box 7.2 Case Study: The Informal Sector in Calcutta

157

(1)

Explaining the Diverging Paths of Urban Development

158

(1)

Box 7.3 Case Study: Mexico City

159

(5)

Development Perspective

160

(1)

Uneven Development Perspectives

161

(3)

Box 7.4 Spotlight: The Banana Industry and the Honduran Economy

164

(1)

Box 7.5 Spotlight: Caribbean Sweatshops

165

(1)

Future Development of Third World Cities

166

(2)

Conclusion

168

(1)

Discussion Questions

169

(1)

Resources on the Internet

169

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

169

(1)

Online Exercises

169

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

170

(1)

III CHANGE AND CONFLICT: URBAN SOCIAL GROUPS

171

(94)

Immigrants and the City

173

(23)

Old and New Immigration

174

(9)

Three Waves of Immigration

175

(1)

Reactions to Newcomers

176

(3)

Economics of Immigration

179

(1)

U. S. Immigration Policy

180

(3)

Contemporary Immigrant Lifestyles

183

(1)

Ethnic Identification and Group Solidarity

183

(1)

Box 8.1 Spotlight: The Mendez Children

184

(8)

Ethnic Neighborhoods and Ethnic Enclaves

185

(1)

Immigrants in the Workplace

186

(4)

Immigrants and Politics

190

(1)

Do Cities Gain or Lose from Immigration?

191

(1)

Conclusion

192

(2)

Discussion Questions

194

(1)

Resources on the Internet

195

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

195

(1)

Online Exercises

195

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

195

(1)

African Americans in Cities

196

(23)

Development of African-American Neighborhoods

197

(1)

Urban Race Relations Before the Great Migration

197

(1)

The Great Migration

197

(1)

Box 9.1 Case Study: Race Relations in Philadelphia Before 1900

198

(4)

Whites and Segregation

199

(2)

Enclave or Ghetto?

201

(1)

Current Racial Patterns in Metropolitan Areas

202

(6)

Institutional Barriers to Housing Choice

202

(3)

Correlates and Consequences of Racial Segregation

205

(2)

Suburban Movement

207

(1)

Social Class Patterns in African-American Neighborhoods

208

(1)

Changing Class Structure

208

(1)

Box 9.2 Case Study: Geography of Race and Social Class in Detroit

209

(4)

Racial Concentration and Political Power

213

(1)

Current Issues Around Race and Residential Patterns

213

(3)

Government Policy

213

(2)

Attitudes About Racial Homogeneity

215

(1)

Conclusion

216

(1)

Discussion Questions

217

(1)

Resources on the Internet

218

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

218

(1)

Online Exercises

218

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

218

(1)

Changing Social Class Patterns

219

(24)

What Is a Social Class?

220

(1)

Social Class and Communities

220

(4)

Mapping Studies: Pictures of the Whole City

221

(1)

Descriptions of Urban Life: Community Studies

222

(2)

Box 10.1 Case Study: Creation of an Elite Neighborhood

224

(4)

Box 10.2 Case Study: Dismantling of a Working Class Community

228

(1)

Summary

229

(1)

Mechanisms for Sorting Out the Social Classes

229

(4)

Housing Market

230

(1)

Institutional Actors and Influences

230

(2)

Labor Market

232

(1)

The Changing Economy and the Shrinking Middle Class

233

(2)

Housing Patterns: A Reflection of Social Inequality

235

(5)

Withdrawal of the Affluent

235

(1)

Displacement of the Vulnerable

236

(2)

Homelessness: The Bottom of the Barrel

238

(2)

Conclusion

240

(1)

Discussion Questions

241

(1)

Resources on the Internet

241

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

241

(1)

Online Excercises

242

(1)

IntoTrac College Edition

242

(1)

Women in Cities

243

(22)

Women's Spaces, Men's Spaces

244

(4)

Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Class in the City

248

(4)

Gendered Urban Spaces

252

(3)

Contemporary Workplaces

252

(1)

Transportation

253

(1)

Community Organizations

254

(1)

Box 11.1 Spotlight: Women as Community Activists

255

(3)

Recreation

256

(1)

Consumption

257

(1)

Running Cities As If Women Mattered

258

(5)

What Do Women Want?

259

(2)

User-Friendly Communities

261

(2)

Discussion Questions

263

(1)

Resources on the Internet

264

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

264

(1)

Online Exercises

264

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

264

(1)

IV CHANGE AND CONFLICT: URBAN SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS

265

(92)

Urban Economic Development

267

(22)

The Changing Economy

268

(5)

Impact on Local Economic Bases

268

(1)

Jobs of the Future

269

(1)

Growth of the Informal Economy

270

(2)

The Arts and the Urban Economy

272

(1)

Urban Economic Development Policy

273

(1)

Box 12.1 Spotlight: Culture as Business

274

(9)

Privatism and the Local Economy

274

(5)

Progressive Policies for Local Economic Development

279

(4)

Box 12.2 Spotlight: Investing in Human Capital

283

(2)

Politics of Economic Development Programs

284

(1)

Box 12.3 Case Study: The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative

285

(1)

Conclusion

286

(1)

Discussion Questions

287

(1)

Resources on the Internet

287

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

287

(1)

Online Exercises

288

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

288

(1)

Local Government and Finances

289

(23)

Government and Political Power

289

(3)

Municipal Control, Political Machines, and Reforms

290

(2)

Box 13.1 Case Study: Machine Politics in the Industrial Era

292

(6)

Studies of Political Power

293

(1)

Recent Directions in the Study of Local Government

294

(4)

Financing Local Government

298

(7)

Fiscal Crises

299

(5)

Lessons from the Fiscal Crisis

304

(1)

Urban Politics and Urban Reform

305

(2)

Box 13.2 Case Study: The Progressive Agenda for Chicago

307

(1)

Regionalism and Metropolitan Government

308

(1)

Conclusion

309

(1)

Discussion Questions

309

(1)

Resources on the Internet

310

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

310

(1)

Online Exercises

310

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

311

(1)

Federal Urban Policy

312

(19)

Implicit Urban Policy

313

(2)

Emergence of Urban Policy

315

(6)

Public Housing

315

(3)

Urban Renewal

318

(1)

Department of Housing and Urban Development

319

(2)

Summary: Efforts to Direct Urban Policy from Washington

321

(1)

Transformation of Urban Policy

321

(4)

New Federalism

321

(1)

Retreat from Urban Policy

322

(3)

Reinventing Urban Policy

325

(4)

Politics and Urban Policy

326

(1)

Why Is the United States Different?

327

(2)

Conclusion

329

(1)

Discussion Questions

329

(1)

Resources on the Internet

330

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

330

(1)

Online Exercises

330

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

330

(1)

Urban Unrest and Social Control

331

(26)

How Orderly Is Society?

331

(3)

Theories Stressing Order

331

(2)

Theories Stressing Conflict

333

(1)

Some Types of Urban Unrest

334

(5)

Crime

335

(2)

Gang Activity

337

(1)

Riots

338

(1)

Box 15.1 Spotlight: Gang Recruitment

339

(6)

Social Movements

342

(3)

Box 15.2 Case Study: Organizing to Fight Mortgage Redlining

345

(1)

Causes of Urban Disruptions

346

(3)

Approaches to Reducing Urban Disruptions

349

(1)

Informal Social Control

349

(6)

Formal Social Control

350

(3)

Strategic Reinvestment

353

(1)

Conclusion

354

(1)

Discussion Questions

355

(1)

Resources on the Internet

355

(2)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

355

(1)

Online Exercises

355

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

356

(1)

V CONCLUSION

357

(24)

Planning for the Future of Cities

359

(22)

Urban Planning in History

360

(2)

Defense

360

(1)

Commerce

360

(1)

Political Power

361

(1)

Urban Planning: The View from the Ground

362

(3)

Imaging the City

362

(1)

The Social Life of the Street

363

(2)

Urban Planning: Visions and Realities

365

(9)

Utopian Visions

365

(2)

Planning Realities in the United States

367

(3)

The Vision Implemented

370

(4)

Planning and Politics

374

(3)

Social Justice and the City

377

(2)

Discussion Questions

379

(1)

Resources on the Internet

380

(1)

The Wadsworth Sociology Resource Center: Virtual Society

380

(1)

Online Exercises

380

(1)

InfoTrac College Edition

380

(1)

Glossary

381

(8)

References

389

(22)

Index

411

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