E. Barbara Phillips
Chapters 4-20 end with "Another Look" sections
Part I. An Invitation to the City
1. The Knowing Eye and Ear
"Acquaintance With" and "Knowledge About" Metropolitan Life
Rethinking the Two Paths
Using Social Science and Literature as Paths to Knowledge
Labor
Radicalism, Industrial Progress, and Social Reform
Urban Researchers and Writers: Convergent Goals
The City Beautiful
Chicago: Microcosm of the New Industrial Order
2. Thinking About Cities
Different Modes of Understanding
Academic and Occupational Perspectives
Even Road
Maps Contain a Point of View
Fragmentation of the Social Sciences
Ways of Expanding Our Vision
Urban Studies
Economics
Geography
Sociology
Political Science
Anthropology
History
Psychology, Social Psychology, and Social Psychiatry
Public
Administration
City Planning and Urban Design
Communications and Information Technology
Environmental Studies
Literature and the Arts
Making Some Connections
3. Posing the Questions
Reasoning, Deductive and Inductive
Systematic Analysis
Facts, Hypotheses, and
Value Judgments
Why Social Scientists Disagree
Theoretical Orientations
Disciplinary Perspectives
Research Methods
Levels of Analysis
Ideologies and Values
Subtle Influences on Researchers
Attitudes Toward Solving Social Problems
What Questions to Ask
Part
II. Polis, Metropolis, Megalopolis
4. From Urban Specks to Global Cities
Digging into Urban History
What Is a City?
The First Urban Settlements: An Overview
The Childe Thesis: The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia
Counterviews on the Origin of Cities: Trade, the Sacred, and
the Spirit of the People
An Emerging Theory of Early City Making
Preindustrial versus Industrial Cities (Sjoberg)
A Sampler of Cities
The Glory That Was Greece
Kyoto, "The Most Japanese of Japanese Cities"
From Rome to Medieval, European Cities
Muslim Cordoba, Spain:
"Ornament of the World"
Mexico City: Imperial City, Colonial City, Megalopolis
Manchester, England: Symbol of the New Industrial City
Huis Ten Bosch, Japan, Themepark Resort
Bom Bahia/Bombay/Mumbai/"Slumbay"
High-tech Cities: Silicon Valley, California
Shanghai,
China
U.S. Urban Roots
Specks in the Wilderness
Antiurbanism of the Intellectuals
From Walking City to Streetcar Suburb
5. Urbanization & the Urban System
The Process of Urbanization
Industrialization and Urbanization in Western Europe and North America
Urbanization
in Poor Countries
Worldwide, the Future Is Urban
Globalization of Cities
The International Division of Labor, Old and New
U.S. Cities in the World Urban System
Cities in the Global Environment
6. The Ties That Bind
Communities Based on Territory
Communities Based on
Common Culture
A Sense of Community
A Communal Way of Life
Typologies of the Rural-Urban Shift
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (Tönnies)
Mechanical and Organic Social Solidarity (Durkheim)
Culture and Civilization (Spengler)
Urban Personality (Wirth)
Preindustrial and
Industrial Cities (Sjoberg)
Adding a Third Type: Technoßchaft
Untested Hypotheses
Contrary Evidence
Deterministic Assumptions
Contemporary Irrelevance
Jumbled Variables
7. Metropolitan Community
Metropolitan Community: Alive or Extinct?
One View: Metropolitan
Division of Labor
Alternative View: New International Division of Labor ("Needle")
Urban Ecologists versus New Urban Theorists: A Case Study
Measuring Functional Interdependence
The Need for New Concepts
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and Micropolitan Area in the
U.S.
Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA) or Megalopolis
Rural and Micropolitan Areas
Where Are We Headed in the U.S.?
U.S. Population Shifts
From Rural to Urban
From Urban to Suburban and Postsuburban
Back to the Land?
From Frostbelt to
Sunbelt
Interpreting the Population Trends
8. Making Connections
Diatribes Against "Suburbia"
The Myth of Suburbia
Levittown
Taking the Sub out of Suburban
The Transformation of Milpitas, California, 1954-2000
ZIP Codes as Neighborhoods
Placeless, Faceless
Communities: Interconnectivities
A Structural Approach to Community
Privatization of Domestic Public Space
Privatization of Once Public Space
Gated Communities
Grand Dreams and Grandiose Schemes
Part III. Pluribus versus Unum
9. Movin' On
The Old
Migration
Internal Migration
The New Migration
Some Impacts of the Newcomers
Adjustments to Urban Life
Irish Catholics and East European Jews in New York City
Chicanos and Koreans in Los Angeles
International Migration and Internal Migration Globally
The Need for New
U.S. Models
Cubans in Miami
Some Impacts of the Newcomers
Global Villagers
10. Identity Crisis
Global Identity . . .
. . . versus the Pull of "Lesser Loyalties"
Civics versus Ethnics
Race, Ethnicity, and Minority Groups
From Minority to Majority
A Clash of
Values: White Ethnics versus WASP Superculture
Once Again, the Entanglement of Race/Ethnicity and Class
The Grand Canyon
Feelings and Food
Native Americans: The Unassimilated
African-Americans: Permanent Underclass?
Hispanics/Latinos: Climbing Up?
Making It:
Japanese-Americans
Gays and Lesbians: An Ethnic-like Group?
Multiculturalism
Part IV. Rules of the Game
11. Social Ladders
Two Ways of Looking at Social Stratification: Marx and Weber
Living on the Cusp
Marx and Weber: No Specifically Urban Theory
Marx and the
Concept of Class
"Dream Up, Blame Down"
Marx, the Inescapable Critic
Weber's View of Social Stratification: Class, Status, Power
The American Class Structure
Cultural Capital
Studies of Urban Social Stratification in the United States
Yankee City: Lifestyles in a New
England Town
Jonesville: A Typical Town, and How Its People Justify Inequality
Studies of Particular Strata in the City
Global Social Stratification Research
Veracruz, Mexico; Eastern Europe, and China
Globalization and Inequality
Other Variables Influencing Social
Rank
Religion
Ethnicity, Religion, and Region
Race
Ethclass
Gender
Women in Cities
Age
12. Discovering the Rules
Pedestrian Behavior
Subway Behavior
Eavesdropping: Urbanites as Spies
Bar Behavior
ATM Behavior
Office Behavior: A Comparative
Look
Whose Games Do We Play?
"The Definition of the Situation" (Thomas)
Social Order Amid Multiple Realities
"The Presentation of Self" (Goffman)
Minimizing Involvement, Maximizing Social Order
The Public Definition of Reality
Case Study: Tally's Corner
Part V. Who
Runs This Town?
13. The Skeleton of Power
Government's Limited Scope in the U.S.
Paradoxical Attitudes Toward Government
Public-Private Sector Relationships
The Proper Role of Local Government
Local Political Environments
General Law Cities and Charter
Cities
Dillon's Rule
State Legislatures and City Interests
Suburbs versus Cities
Urbanization of the Suburbs
Local Governments in a Global Society: "Taking Responsibility for the Sky"
Mayor-Council Form
Council-Manager Form
Commission Form
Mayors, Strong or
Weak
Hyperpluralism and Government by Bureaucrats
Fragmentation of the Metropolis
Special Districts
Counties (Including Urban Counties)
The State's Role in Urban Affairs
Areawide Planning Efforts
Broad Regional Government?
Traditional Responses and Minor
Adaptations
Innovative Experiments
Privatization of Public Services
The Report Card
Expansion of Federal Involvement in U.S. Life, 1930s-1950s
How Federal Policy Affected Postwar Housing and Transportation
From Federalism to the New Federalism, 1960s-1992
A Nameless
Period: 1992-2008
Case Study: What Bananas Learned About the Formal Structure of Government
14. Bosses, Boodlers, and Reformers
A Bunch of Crooks or Friend of the Poor?
How City Machines Work
What Services Machines Provide(d)
Case Study: New York City's Tweed Ring,
1866-1871
Case Study: The Daley Machine in Chicago, 1955-1976 and Beyond
Why Machines Rise, Why Machines Fall
The Goo-Goos: A Disparate Lot
Thrusts of the Reform Movement
How Successful Were the Reformers?
Robert Moses, Newer-style Boss
The Local-National
Connection
15. Getting Things Done
Case Study: The Fight over Yerba Buena
The Elitist Model
The Pluralist Model
The City-as-a-Growth-Machine Model
Why the Theorists Disagree
Applying These Models Elsewhere
Citizen Politics
Citizen Participation
Dark
Shadows
Electronic Democracy?
Case Study Continued: How Bananas Learned Who Runs This Town and Got Some Things Done
Part VI. Space and Place
16. Metropolitan Form and Space
Henri Lefebvre's Influence
Central Place Theory
Does Central Place Theory Work
Today?
Classifying Cities by Function
Newer Spatial Models
The Global Network of Cities
Classic Models of U.S. Cities
How Useful Are the Classic Models?
Social Area Analysis: A Method of Investigating Urban Growth and Differentiation
Computer Models of Urban
Structure
Perspectives on Metropolitan Space since the 1970s
The Political Economy Model or the "New" Urban Paradigm
The Multinucleated Metropolitan Region Model
How Race and Ethnicity Affect Housing Patterns
What People Live In
How Age Affects Housing
Patterns
Gentrification
Central Business District (CBD)
Decentralized and Multicentered Commercial Activities
Manufacturing
17. A Sense of Place
Cultural Filters
Social Filters
Psychological Filters
Architecture as Symbolic Politics
Las Vegas,
Nevada
China: Shaping an Emerging National Identity
Case Study: Pruitt-Igoe
Case Study 2: Cabrini-Green, Chicago
Genius loci
Feng shui
Personal Space as Protective Bubble
Personalizing Our Space: Home Territories
"The Architecture of Despair"
Privatization of
Domestic Public Space
Privatization of Once-Public Space
Public and Private Space as Symbol
Colonizing Social Space
Street People's Turf
Streets
Globalization and the Experience of "Somewhere"
Policy Implications
Key Concepts and Research Thrusts
Rats, Chickens,
and People
Design Principles
Designing the Natural Environment
Making the City Observable
Designers, Grand and less Grand
Pierre-Charles L'Enfant's Washington, D.C.
Utopian Visionaries
Company Towns: Lowell, Massachusetts, and Pullman, Illinois
The City Beautiful
Movement
Ebenezer Howard's Garden City
Megastructures or Ministructures?
A Blend of Architecture and Ecology
A Synthesis of Hi-Tech and Nature
Bucky Fuller: Visionary of Change
Postnationalist Architecture
The New Urbanism
Celebration, Florida: Walt Disney meets
Norman Rockwell?
"Green" Structures
Carless Communities?
Part VII. Paying Their Way
18. Producing, Consuming, Exchanging, Taxing, and Spending
Supply, Demand, Price, and the Market
Mechanism
Profit
Utility
Externalities
Equity
Efficiency
Capital
Surplus Value
Monopoly Capitalism
Late Capitalism
Social Structures of Accumulation
The Informational Mode of Development
A Participatory Budget
Restorative Economy and
Sustainability
Cities and MSAs in the National and Global Economies
Basic and Nonbasic Sectors
The Underground Economy
Identifying Basic Sector Industries
Case Study: Caliente
Globalization and Local Finance
A Volatile Global Economy
Paying for Local
Services
International Trends
U.S. National, Regional, and State Trends and Policies
19. Blue-Collar, White-Collar, No-Collar, Shirtless
The Human Dimension: Work and the Individual
Lowell, Massachusetts: Working Conditions of America's First Female Labor Force
New England to
the New South to Offshore: More Hard Times in the Mills
Modern Times
Alienation
The Anomic Division of Labor
Worker Satisfaction, Overwork, and Stress
The Relationship of Jobs to Social Climate and Governance
Contingent or Temporary Work
The Dual City
The Dual
Nation
Defining Poverty
Who Are the U.S. Metropolitan Poor?
Why Are They Poor?
Tally's Corner
What Should Be Done About Poverty?
20. Finale
Brief Biographies
Index
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E. Barbara Phillips is Professor Emerita of Sociology and Urban Studies at San Francisco State University.
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