TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kasinitz,Philip
TI  - Metropolis: center and symbol of our times 
SN  - 9780814746400
U1  - 307.76 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Metropolitan areas
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Sociology, Urban
N1  - 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
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