Urbanism and Urbanization

Views, Aspects and Dimensions
Erscheinungsjahr 1984
ISBN: 978-90-04-06920-6
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 260 Seiten, Gewicht: 560 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iverson, Noel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Noel Iverson

PART ONE: URBAN THEORY AND RESEARCH
Theory of the City, Don Martindale
Urban Sociology as a Field of Study, Peter McGahan

PART TWO: ASPECTS OF URBANISM
Engineering and Urbanism, Nels Anderson
Race and the Urban System, John Rex
Conservation and Dissolution in the Third World City; The ‘Shanty Town’ as an Element of Conservation, Terrence McGee

PART THREE: DIMENSIONS OF URBANIZATIONS
Urbanisation and the Welfare State, John F. Sleeman
Social Transformation of the Strategic Institution of Caste in Urban India, Raj S. Gandhi
Women and Work in Industrial Societies: Where We Are and Where We Are Going, Alice H. Cook
Theoretical Challenge of World Urbanization, Noel Iverson

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noel Iverson (b. 1933), Ph.D. University of Minnesota, is now Professor of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick (Canada). He has written articles on theory, comparative social-economics and social change. Author of Germania, U.S.A., he is presently co-authoring a monograph on native-white relations in Canadian society.