Perspectives on Urban Society: Preindustrial to Postindustrial Book

Preface.

Introduction: From Preindustrial to Postindustrial: An Overview.

I. THE PREINDUSTRIAL CITY.

Introduction.

“The Urban Revolution,” by V. Gordon Childe.

“The Preindustrial Society,” by Gideon Sjoberg.

“The Sumerians,” by Samuel Noah Kramer.

“Tenochtitlan,” by Jorge E. Hardoy.

“The Emergence of Civilization in China,” by Kwang-chih Chang.

“The Polis,” by Jacob Burckhardt.

“European Cities in the Middle Ages,” by Leonardo Benevolo.

“Architecture and Urban Growth,” by Josef W. Konvitz.

II. THE INDUSTRIAL CITY.

Introduction.

“On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft,” by Ferdinand Töennies.

“On Mechanical Solidarity and Organic Solidarity,” by Emile Durkheim.

“The Nature of the City,” by Max Weber.

“The Great Towns,” by Friedrich Engels.

“The Metropolis and Mental Life,” by Georg Simmel.

“Urbanism as a Way of Life,” by Louis Wirth.

“Human Ecology,” by Robert Park.

“The Nature of Cities,” by Chauncy D. Harris and Edward L. Ullman.

“The New Urban Sociology Meets the Old: Rereading Some Classical Human Ecology,” by David Smith.

III. THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY.

Introduction.

“The Industrialization of Information: San Francisco/Palo Alto/ Berkeley 1950-1990,” by Peter Hall.

“The Dependent Future,” by John Logan and H. Molotch.

“The Post-Industrial City,” by H.V. Savitch.

“The Postmodern Urban Matrix,” by Paul L. Knox.

“The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place,” by Saskia Sassen.

“Social Change and Vulnerable Neighborhoods,” by William Julius Wilson.

“The State and the Global City: Notes Toward a Conception of Place-Centered Governance,” by Saskia Sassen.

“Planning the American Dream,” by Todd W. Bressi.