Metropolis : center and symbol of our times / edited by Philip Kasinitz.
Series: Main trends of the modern worldPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c1995.Description: xii, 486 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780814746400
- 0814746403 (pbk.)
- 081474639X
- 307.76 20 MET
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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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