Metropolis : center and symbol of our times /
edited by Philip Kasinitz.
- New York : New York University Press, c1995.
- xii, 486 p. ; 22 cm.
- Main trends of the modern world .
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