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Author : Edward C. Banfield
Release : 1968
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Book Synopsis The Unheavenly City Revisited by : Edward C. Banfield
Download or read book The Unheavenly City Revisited written by Edward C. Banfield. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward C. Banfield
Release : 1974
Genre : Cities and towns
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Book Synopsis The Unheavenly City Revisited by : Edward C. Banfield
Download or read book The Unheavenly City Revisited written by Edward C. Banfield. This book was released on 1974. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revision of The unheavenly city. Bibliography: p. [291]-292.
Author : Lyn H. Lofland
Release : 1985
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis A World of Strangers by : Lyn H. Lofland
Download or read book A World of Strangers written by Lyn H. Lofland. This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In traditional human societies, the stranger was a threat, to be disarmed at once by an act of force or by a ritual of hospitality. Under no conditions could a stranger be ignored or taken for granted. Yet in all great cities today, human beings seem to live out their entire lives in a world of strangers. How did it become possible for millions of people to do this? How is city life possible? The unique value of A World of Strangers lies in Loflands expert use of rich historical and anthropological sources to answer these questions. She demonstrates that a potentially chaotic and meaningless world of strangers was transformed into a knowable and predictable world of strangers by the same mechanism humans always use to make their world livable: it was ordered. Lofland offers a brilliant analysis of the various devices used at different times in history to create social and psychological order in cities, concluding with an analysis of the contemporary city, in which the location of the encounter between strangers has come to replace personal appearance as a means of evaluating others. Lofland also describes how city people initially learn and then act upon the ordering principles dominant in their society. A World of Strangers is a wonderfully wise and readable account of how we have come to live as we do.
Author : Neil Smith
Release : 2005-10-26
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis The New Urban Frontier by : Neil Smith
Download or read book The New Urban Frontier written by Neil Smith. This book was released on 2005-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be the simple outcome of new middle-class tastes and a demand for urban living. It reveals gentrification as part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late twentieth century. Documenting in gritty detail the conflicts that gentrification brings to the new urban 'frontiers', the author explores the interconnections of urban policy, patterns of investment, eviction, and homelessness. The failure of liberal urban policy and the end of the 1980s financial boom have made the end-of-the-century city a darker and more dangerous place. Public policy and the private market are conspiring against minorities, working people, the poor, and the homeless as never before. In the emerging revanchist city, gentrification has become part of this policy of revenge.
Author : Jerry Z. Muller
Release : 1997-05-04
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Conservatism by : Jerry Z. Muller
Download or read book Conservatism written by Jerry Z. Muller. This book was released on 1997-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History Professor Jerry Muller locates the origins of modern conservatism within the Enlightenment and distinguishes conservatism from orthodoxy. Reviewing important specimens of analysis from the mid18th century through our own day, Muller demonstrates that characteristic features of conservative argument recur over time and across national borders.
