From Chicago to L.A : making sense of urban theory /

"From Chicago to L.A. begins the task of defining an alternative agenda for urban studies and examines the case for shifting the focus of urban studies from Chicago to Los Angeles. The authors, experienced scholars from a variety of disciplines, examine: the concepts that have blocked our under...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dear, M. J. (Michael J.), Dishman, J. Dallas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001.
Temas:
Urbanization > California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
Urbanization > United States.
Sociology, Urban > United States.
Urbanisation > Californie > Los Angeles, Agglomération de.
Urbanisation > États-Unis.
Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Urbanization
Stadtsoziologie
Agglomération urbaine.
Condition sociale.
Développement urbain.
Sociologie urbaine.
Urbanisation.
Urbanisme.
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area (Calif.) > Social conditions.
Los Angeles, Agglomération de (Calif.) > Conditions sociales.
California > Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
United States
Los Angeles, Calif.
États-Unis.
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Los Angeles and the "L.A. school". The resistable rise of the L.A. school / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty ; Demographic dynamism in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Washington, DC / Dowell Myers ; Los Angeles as postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear and Steven Flusty
  • Photo essay. Imagining postmodern urbanism / Michael J. Dear
  • pt. 2. City of industry. Industry and the landscapes of social reform / Greg Hise ; Los Angeles as a developmental city-state / Steven P. Erie
  • Industrial urbanism in late-twentieth-century southern California / Allen J. Scott
  • pt. 3. Reconsidering community. From immigrants in the city, to immigrant city / Jerome Straughan and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; The globalization of urban homelessness / Madeleine R. Stoner ; "Play groups" no longer: urban street gangs in the Los Angeles region / Cheryl L. Maxson and Malcolm W. Klein ; Religion in Los Angeles: patterns of spiritual practice in a postmodern city / Donald E. Miller ; Ecologies of cyberspace: gay communities on the Internet / J. Dallas Dishman
  • pt. 4. Revisioning urban theory. Representing "Los Angeles": media, space, and place / Darnell M. Hunt ; Returning to ecology: an ecosystem approach to understanding the city / Ashwani Vasishth and David C. Sloane ; Urban nature and the nature of urbanism / Jennifer Wolch, Stephanie Pincetl, and Laura Pulido ; Saber y conocer: the metropolis of urban inquiry / Philip J. Ethington and Martin Meeker ; The L.A. school: a personal introduction / Michael J. Dear.

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