Lin Jan - The Urban Sociology Reader

Second edition

The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures, and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last two hundred years. This reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and transnational social relations, and the regulation of urban space.

Drawing together seminal selections covering the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this reader includes forty-three significant writings from eminent names such as Simmel, Wirth, Park, Burgess, Du Bois, Zukin, Sassen, and Harvey. The second edition illuminates more recent urban issues, such as sprawl, sustainability, immigration, and urban protest. Selections are predominantly sociological, but some readings cross disciplinary boundaries.

Providing an essential resource for students of urban studies, this book brings together important but, until now, widely dispersed writings. Editorial commentaries precede each entry, introducing the text, demonstrating its significance, and outlining the issues surrounding its topic, whilst the associated bibliography enables deeper investigations.

Jan Lin is Professor of Sociology at Occidental College, Los Angeles.

Christopher Mele is Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.

Series editors
Richard T. LeGates
Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, San Francisco State University
Frederic Stout
Lecturer in Urban Studies, Stanford University

The Routledge Urban Reader Series responds to the need for comprehensive coverage of the classic and essential texts that form the basis of intellectual work in the various academic disciplines and professional fields concerned with cities and city planning.

The readers focus on the key topics encountered by undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in urban studies, geography, sociology, political science, anthropology, economics, culture studies, and professional fields such as city and regional planning, urban design, architecture, environmental studies, international relations, and landscape architecture. They discuss the contributions of major theoreticians, practitioners, and other individuals, groups, and organizations that study the city or practice in a field that directly affects the city.

As well as drawing together the best of classic and contemporary writings on the city, each reader features extensive introductions to the book, sections, and individual selections prepared by the volume editors to place the selections in context, illustrate relations among topics, provide information on the author, and point readers towards additional related bibliographic material.

Each reader contains:

• Between thirty-five and sixty selections divided into six sections to eight sections. Almost all of the selections are previously published works that have appeared as journal articles or portions of books.
• A general introduction describing the nature and purpose of the reader.
• Section introductions for each section of the reader to place the readings in context.
• Selection introductions for each selection describing the author, the intellectual background and context of the selection, competing views of the subject matter of the selection and bibliographic references to other readings by the same author and other readings related to the topic.
• One or more plate sections and illustrations at the beginning of each section.
• An index.

The series consists of the following titles:

The City Reader: Fifth edition an interdisciplinary urban reader aimed at urban studies, urban planning, urban geography and urban sociology courses is the anchor urban reader . Routledge published a first edition of The City Reader in 1996, a second edition in 2000, a third edition in 2003, and a fourth edition in 2007. The City Reader has become one of the most widely used anthologies in urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology and urban planning courses in the world.

The series contains urban disciplinary readers organized around social science disciplines and professorial fields: urban sociology, urban geography, urban politics, urban and regional planning, and urban design. The urban disciplinary readers include both classic writings and recent, cutting-edge contributions to the respective disciplines. They are lively, high-quality, competitively priced readers which faculty can adopt as course texts and which also appeal to a wider audience.

The urban series includes topical urban readers intended both as primary and supplemental course texts and for the trade and professional market. The topical titles include readers related to sustainable urban development, global cities, cybercities, and city cultures.

Second edition

Edited by
Jan Lin
and
Christopher Mele

First published 2005

by Routledge

This edition published 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The urban sociology reader / [edited by] Jan Lin and Christopher Mele.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: The urban sociology reader. 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sociology, Urban. I. Lin, Jan. II. Mele, Christopher.
HT108.U733 2012
307.76dc23
2012005536

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