Metropolis : centre and symbol of our times

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Preface R.Jackall & A.J.Vidich - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction P.Kasinitz - PART 1: MODERNITY AND THE URBAN ETHOS - Introduction P.Kasinitz - The Culture of Cities L.Mumford - The Metropolis and Mental Life G.Simmel - Paris: Capital of the 19th Century W.Benjamin - Urbanism as a Way of Life L.Wirth - PART 2: RATIONALITY AND IT'S DISCONTENTS: THE MAKING OF THE A METROPOLIS IN NEW YORK CITY - Introduction P.Kasinitz - New York is not a Completed City Le Corbusier - Uses of Sidewalks J.Jacobs - In the Forrest of Symbols: Some Notes on Modernism in New York M.Berman - PART 3: COMMUNITY REDISCOVERED, COMMUNITY REASSESSED: SOCIAL BONDS IN THE MODERN CITY - Introduction P.Kasinitz - Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life H.Gans - Race, Ethnicity and New Forms of Urban Community J.Bensman & A.Vidich - Private, Parochial and Public Social Orders: Crime and Incivility in Urban Communities A.Hunter - Community Becomes Uncivilized R.Sennett - City Life and Difference I.M.Young - PART 4: SOCIAL RELATIONS AND PUBLIC PLACES - Introduction P.Kasinitz - The Varieties and Vicissitudes of Public Space J.Weintraub - The Pleasures and Costs of Urbanity M.Walzer - Street Etiquette and Street Wisdom E.Anderson - Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space M.Davis - Reclaiming our Public Spaces F.Siegel - PART 5: THE FUTURE OF THE CITY: SPACE, RACE, CLASS AND POLITICS - Introduction P.Kasinitz - Megalopolis Unbound M.Fishman - The Ghetto, the State and the New Capitalist Economy L.J.D.Wacquant - Civil Society as a Polyarchic Form: The City F.Ferrarotti - Index

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