Urban Sociology Books

New and Published Books

1. Green Utopianism

   Politics, Practices and Perspectives

   Edited by Johan Hedrén, Karin Bradley

   Series: Routledge Studies in Environment, Culture, and Society

   In the last decade of planning and policy making, utopian thought and experimental approaches to the organization of society and the built environment have been rare. What has evolved instead is a firm consensus on sustainable society as something created within the framework of current society and...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Metropolitan Problems

   By S. Miles

   Metropolitan Problems is the end-product of one of the most dynamic research programmes of its kind ever conceived and executed. The book, which took three years to complete, represents the culmination of a two year study that was highlighted by a conference held in toronto in 1967. In the early...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Third World Urbanization

   By J. Abu-Lughod, R. Jr Hay

   This book was first published in 1977....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
4. Pre-Colombian Cities

   By Jorge Enrique Hardoy

   What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Urban Community

   A World Perspective

   By Nels Andersen

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   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. City Slums

   A Political Thesis

   By J.A. Ingham

   This book was first published in 1889....

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. The New Urban Economics

   And Alternatives

   By H.W. Richardson

   This book was first published in 1977. ...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
8. Rails Through the Clay

   A History of London's Tube Railways

   By Alan A. Jackson, Desmond F. Croome

   This book was first published in 1962. ...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. English Urban Life

   1776-1851

   By James Walvin

   The years between 1776 and 1851 are of profound importance for the social and urban historian. English town dwellers of the period experienced some fundamental changes in their way of life: rapid population growth; and an unprecedented rate of social change resulting from this. These...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
10. Great Cities of the World

    Their government, Politics and Planning

    Edited by W.A. Robson

    The giant city of today is a unique phenomenon. Never before have such acute problems of government, the provision of essential services, planning, social life, and civilized living arisen from uncontrolled urbanization. In the West and in the East, in the more developed and in the less developed...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge