Metropolis : center and symbol of our times / edited by Philip Kasinitz.

Contents;

Part I: Modernity and the urban ethos
1. Introduction
2. The culture of cities
3. The metropolis and mental life
4. Paris: Capital of the nineteenth century
5. Urbanism as a way of life

Part II: Rationality and its discontents: The making of the metropolis in New York city
6. Introduction
7. New York is not a completed city
8. The uses of sidewalks
9. In the forest of symbols: Some notes on modernism in New York

Part III: Community rediscovered, community reassessed: Social bonds in the modern city
10. Introduction
11. Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: A reevaluation of definitions
12. Race, ethnicity and new forms of urban community
13. Private, parochial and public social orders: The problem of crime and incivility in urban communities
14. Community becomes uncivilized
15. City life and difference

Part IV: Social relations and public places
16. Introduction
17. Varieties and vicissitudes of public space
18. Pleasures and costs of urbanity
19. Street etiquette and street wisdom
20. Fortress Los Angeles: The militarization of urban space
21. Reclaiming our public spaces

Part V: The future of the city: Space, race, class and politics
22. Introduction
23. Megalopolis unbound
24. The ghetto, the State and the new capitalist
25. Civil society as a polyarchic form: The city

Includes bibliographical references and index.