The city, revisited : urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Judd, Dennis R., Simpson, Dick W.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Sociology, Urban > United States > Case studies. Metropolitan government > United States > Case studies. Sustainable development > United States > Case studies.

Table of Contents:

Revisiting urban theory
Theorizing the city / Dennis R. Judd
Grounded theory : not abstract words but tools of analysis / Janet Abu-Lughod
The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess : same city, different visions / Daphne Spain
The view from Los Angeles
Urban politics and the Los Angeles school of urbanism / Michael Dear and Nicholas Dahmann
The sun also rises in the west / Amy Bridges
From the Chicago to the L.A. school : whither the local state? / Steven P. Erie and Scott A. MacKenzie
The view from New York
The rise and decline of the L.A. and New York schools / David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge
School is out : the case of New York City / John Hull Mollenkopf
Radical uniqueness and the flight from urban theory / Robert A. Beauregard
The view from Chicago
The new Chicago school of urbanism and the new Daley machine / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly
The new Chicago school : notes toward a theory / Terry Nichols Clark
The mayor among his peers : interpreting Richard M. Daley / Larry Bennett
Both center and periphery : Chicago's metropolitan expansion and the new downtowns / Costas Spirou
The utility of U.S. urban theory
The city and its politics : informal and contested / Frank Gaffikin, David C. Perry, and Ratoola Kundu
Understanding deep urban change : patterns of residential segregation in Latin American cities / Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo
Studying twenty-first century cities / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly.