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For undergraduate and graduate courses in urban sociology.   A social psychological perspective informed by political economy encourages sociological understanding of the city and suburb in the past and in the contemporary world.   Experiencing Cities is an introduction to urban sociology based heavily on microsociology and symbolic interaction theory—emphasizing 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.    

Table of Contents:
IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE     BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS   Chapter 1:   Introduction to Experiencing Cities   Chapter 2:   The Emergence of Cities   Chapter 3:   The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology   Chapter 4:   Chicago School: Urbanism and Urban Ecology Chapter 5:   Urban Planning   Chapter 6:   Urban Political Economy, The New Urban Sociology, and The Power of Place   Chapter 7:   The City as a Work of Art   Chapter 8:   The Skyscraper as Icon Chapter 9: Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order Chapter 10: “Seeing” Disorder and the Ecology of Fear   Chapter 11: Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies   Chapter 12: Gender in the City   Chapter 13: City Families and Kinship Patterns   Chapter 14: Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activity   Chapter 15: Baseball and Basketball as Urban Drama   Chapter 16: The Suburbanization of America   Chapter 17: Social Capital and Healthy Places   Chapter 18: Experiencing World Cities       COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:   Contents Preface    Part One · 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   Part Two · 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 Place and Collective Memory     The Power of Place Project: Los Angeles     Independence Hall, the National Park Service, and the Reinterpretation of History     Part Three · 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     The Art Museum as a Community Resource: Detroit Institute of Arts   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” by David Lehman   The Future: How Do You Reconstruct an Icon?   The “Ground Zero” Mosque    Part Four · 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”   Elijah Anderson: The Cosmopolitan Canopy   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”   Flash Mobs   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”     Part Five · 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 and the Quest for Authenticity     Hollow City: The Gentrification of San Francisco     Homelessness     12  Gender in the City     Gender and Public Space     Etiquette: Governing Gender in the Public Sphere     Gender Harassment in the Public Sphere     Gays and Lesbians in the City     Urban Tribes, Gays, and the Creative Class     Nightlife as Frontier 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     Part Six · 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     The Gentrification of the U Street Corridor   15  Baseball and Basketball 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: Place and Collective Memory     Basketball: The New City Game   Part Seven · 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     Postscript: Disaster Tourism, Politics and the Reshaping of New Orleans   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  

About the Author :
Mark Hutter is a professor of sociology at Rowan University and has served as coordinator of the Bantivoglio Honors Program. He teaches and has an active and ongoing research agenda in both urban studies and family sociology and has extensively published and presented papers in these areas. He is the author of The Changing Family 3rd ed (Allyn and Bacon, 1998) and the editor of The Family Experience 4th ed (Allyn & Bacon, 2004). His scholarship and pedagogical involvement in the field of family studies has received international recognition with the award of the National Council on Family Relations’ Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies in 2004. He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and Alpha Kappa Delta, the International Sociology Honor Society.

Review :
Thank you to our reviewers!   Donna Bird, University of Southern Maine Walter Carroll, Bridgewater State College Peter Grahame, Pennsylvania State University- Schuylkill Mark Hardt, Montana State University-Billings     "The text emphasizes some areas -- such as the city as a work of art -- that other texts ignore.  I have a very favorable overall impression of this material. To my mind, this is the strongest of the urban sociology texts available."  Walter Carroll, Bridgewater State College   “It is accessible, informative, and has good depth. The scope of information covered is considerable, and yet remains comprehensive and organized.” Mark Hardt, Montana State University, Billings   “My overall impressions are very positive. The synthesis of interactionism and political economy seems the right way to go.” Peter Grahame, Pennsylvania State University, Schuylkill   “I liked this textbook, the students in the class liked the textbook; in fact, I received a number of totally unsolicited thumbs ups on this book over the course of the semester. It's well-written and well-organized, interesting to read.” Donna Bird, University of Southern Maine