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1 online resource (545 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. IMAGES AND PERSPECTIVES; Urban Perspectives: New York City; Some Varieties of American Urban Symbolism; 2. CONTRASTING CONCEPTIONS OF THE SAME CITY; How I Struck Chicago, and How Chicago Struck Me; An Easterner Looks at a Western City; The Better Business Bureau's Representation of Chicago; 3. THE FRONTIER AND THE CITY; Land Speculation in Chicago; City of the Plains; Frontier Morals; Joe's Luck; The Frontier in American History; 4. CITY DESTINY; The Midwest Will Be Urban |
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Missouri-St. Louis, the Commercial Center of North AmericaHistory of Marietta; 5. EARLY VERSIONS OF THE RURAL-URBAN DIALOGUE; The Political State of Agriculture and the Pleasures of Agriculture; The American City; What Constitutes a Merchant; The Morals of Trade; Humanity in the City; A Later Version of the Dialogue; 6. PERILS OF THE GREAT CITY; Perils-the City; Our Cities; The Language of the Fence; Poverty and the Immigrant; The Sexual Immorality of Girls; The Professional Ideology of Social Pathologies; 7. SUCCESS AND THE PERILOUS CITY; The Strife for Precedence; Coming to the City |
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Society in TownThe Girl Who Earns Her Own Living; City Boy versus Country Boy; Women of New York; Success and the Man of Culture; 8. POVERTY AND ITS SOLUTIONS; Rural Homes for Urban Children; Nineteenth-Street Gang; Outings; Immigrants and the Church; The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements; Cleric Urges New Ministry To Meet Urban Needs; The Ethics of Progress; A Program of Social Work; The Culture of Poverty Approach to Social Problems; California Foundation for Economic Opportunity; 9. DEMOCRACY, POLITICS, AND MUNICIPAL REFORM; The City: The Hope of Democracy; The Coming City |
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Reform and the SuffragetteA City Boss Loses an Election; Big Kennedy and the Mugwumps; The Urban Polity; 10. ORDER AND DISORDER IN THE CITY; Why the Police Are Not More Effective; Keeping the Peace in Skid Row; The Police as Perceived by Negro Boys; Violence in the City; 11. SOCIOLOGISTS STUDY SOCIAL WORLDS; The Great Metropolis: Social Worlds; A Review of ""The Social Value of the Saloon; Symbolism, Space, and the Upper Class; The World of Furnished Rooms; Towertown: Chicago's Bohemia; Patterns of Voluntary Association among Urban Working-Class Families; Rural Styles in an Urban Environment |
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Interdependent Worlds: The Social Integration of Queers and PeersA Cosmopolitan World; 12. THE CITY WITHOUT HUMAN PURPOSE; Sympathy: Country versus City; Impersonality in the City; Conspicuous Consumption: Country versus City; The Modern City: Anomic, Impersonal, Meaningless; Urbanism as a Way of Life; The Community of Limited Liability; The Cabdriver and His Fare: Facets of a Fleeting Relationship; 13. RURAL AMENITIES AND URBAN ATTRIBUTES; Rooftop Gardeners Bring Forth Blossoms High above a City of Stone and Steel; I Have 7,000,000 Neighbors; The Woman on the Farm; The Provincial American |
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The Country Newspaper |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- United States
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Cities and towns
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Strauss, Anselm L
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| ISBN |
9781351486101 |
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1351486101 |
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