The urban sociology reader Edited by Jan Lin and Christopher Mele - 2nd ed. - London : Routledge, 2013. - x, 447 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - The Routledge urban reader series .



The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and transnational social relations and the regulation of urban space. Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this Reader includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simme.



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Sociology, Urban

307.76 UR BA