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What is the future of the American city? What are the relevant
contexts for the analysis of urban problems? Should attention be
focused on the metropolitan area, the region, or the megalopolis?
Does the changing shape and structure of urban America require new
ways of thinking about the urban community? How do national trends
and policies affect the future of city life? Until now few
sociologists have tried to see what urban America may become. This
failure limits their ability to serve the function they claim for
themselves, asserts Ely Chinoy, enabling men and women to help
shape their own future.Urban Theory examines trends, including
social, cultural, and national variables that could affect them;
offers explanations of urban problems; and presents a careful
review of solutions that have been offered - proposals of planners,
politicians, cynics, and even visionaries for remaking our cities
and for controlling and directing growth or deterioration. It is a
valuable assessment of the state of thinking about urban life
during the post-World War II period, with interesting projections
of trends and analyses. It includes a comprehensive discussion of
many of the more academic questions dealt with in courses in urban
sociology and urban planning, as well as a treatment of problems
within a larger and more meaningful context.Chinoy states that
unless people anticipate alternatives open to them, they will
remain captive to forces that they do not understand or have no
control over. By examining what the future may hold, we can more
readily understand the present, cope with its problems, and
deliberately contribute to the shape of the future. This
perspective is as appropriate today as it was when the book was
originally published in 1973. Included here are pieces by York
Willbern, Catherine Bauer Wurster, John Friedman, John Miller, Jean
Gottman, Paul N. Ylvisaker, Nathan Glazer, Morton Grodzins, and
Russell Baker. This material will continue to be of interest in all
sociology, political science, and urban studies courses that deal
with crucial problems of the city, as well as to all planners and
urban specialists.
What is the future of the American city? What are the relevant
contexts for the analysis of urban problems? Should attention be
focused on the metropolitan area, the region, or the megalopolis?
Does the changing shape and structure of urban America require new
ways of thinking about the urban community? How do national trends
and policies affect the future of city life? Until now few
sociologists have tried to see what urban America may become. This
failure limits their ability to serve the function they claim for
themselves, asserts Ely Chinoy, enabling men and women to help
shape their own future.
Urban Theory examines trends, including social, cultural, and
national variables that could affect them; offers explanations of
urban problems; and presents a careful review of solutions that
have been offered--proposals of planners, politicians, cynics, and
even visionaries for remaking our cities and for controlling and
directing growth or deterioration. It is a valuable assessment of
the state of thinking about urban life during the post-World War II
period, with interesting projections of trends and analyses. It
includes a comprehensive discussion of many of the more academic
questions dealt with in courses in urban sociology and urban
planning, as well as a treatment of problems within a larger and
more meaningful context.
Chinoy states that unless people anticipate alternatives open
to them, they will remain captive to forces that they do not
understand or have no control over. By examining what the future
may hold, we can more readily understand the present, cope with its
problems, and deliberately contribute to the shape of the future.
This perspective is as appropriate today as it was when the book
was originally published in 1973. Included here are pieces by York
Willbern, Catherine Bauer Wurster, John Friedman, John Miller, Jean
Gottman, Paul N. Ylvisaker, Nathan Glazer, Morton Grodzins, and
Russell Baker. This material will continue to be of interest in all
sociology, political science, and urban studies courses that deal
with crucial problems of the city, as well as to all planners and
urban specialists.
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