Cities, Real and Ideal : Categories for an Urban Ontology.

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Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weissman, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2010.
Colección:Categories.
Temas:
Cities and towns > Philosophy.
City and town life.
Social structure.
Sociology, Urban.
Villes > Philosophie.
Vie urbaine.
Structure sociale.
Sociologie urbaine.
social structure.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns > Philosophy
City and town life
Social structure
Sociology, Urban
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a versi.
Notas:6. The real and idealChapter Six Social process.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (283 pages)
ISBN:9783110321968
3110321963

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