Cities, Real and Ideal - Categories for an Urban Ontology (Hardcover)

Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a version of social justice appropriate to this structure, thereby updating Marx's claim that justice is realizable without the intervention of factors additional to society's material conditions.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Categories
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	David Weissman
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-032162-3
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Metaphysics & ontology Promotions
LSN:	3-11-032162-9
Barcode:	9783110321623

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