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New material this edition copyright 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903. Originally published in 1962 by The Free Press.
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 98-11414 ISBN: 0-7658-0432-8 Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greer, ScottA. The emerging city : myth and reality / Scott Greer ; with a new introduction by Janel Abu-Lughod. p. cm. Originally published: New York : Free Press, 1962. With new introd. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7658-0432-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Sociology, Urban. I. Title. HT151.G68 1998 307.76dc21 98-11414 CIP
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Contents
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
vii
Acknowledgments
xiii
1. The City in Crisis
1
2. Order and Change in Metropolitan Society
29
3. The Citizen in the Urban Worlds
67
4. The Community of Limited Liability
107
5. The Urban Polity
138
6. The Problems of the Metropolis
168
7. The Changing Image of the City
193
Notes
209
Index
227
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Introduction to the Transaction Edition
It was a remarkable experience to reread my worn copy of the original edition of this prescient book, which occupies a permanent place in my librarynot only because the book is (almost) clairvoy-
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ant, but also because I felt in easy dialogue with its author. It seemed as if we were picking up conversations we had carried on intermittently when we were colleagues at Northwestern University in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His mind was rapier sharp, his wit legendary, and his visionwell, wide enough, as might be expected from the poet he always was. I recall that he attributed his visionI think he called it peripheral visionto the wide open spaces of Texas where he grew up, and I have, in my mind's memory, traced some of his pessimism about urban change to the time he returned from a visit to Sweetwater and wistfully reported that a gas station now stood in place of the house in which he had grown up. Concern with change was always at the very core of his scholarship.
Careful researcher and lucid writer, Scott Greer never lost sight of the largest questions of human existence: what needs for fellowship and freedom were bedrock? What would be gained and what would be lost as society changed? What kinds of urban settlements were "good" for humans? That is what makes his books worth rereading, in the way that the best writings of philosophers live on, even though the world has gone through countless iterations since the time they wrote. In Scott Greer's case, that world has changed, for the most part, in directions he predicted, even if he "missed" some themes whose importance has since come to the fore. But if he had caught all of them, he would have left no work for the rest of us to do. And much work certainly remains, since the changes that have taken place in the world during the generation since this book was written have moved at an ever more rapid pace.
In the 1962 book reprinted here, under the heading of "The Crisis," he bemoaned that, "Some forty years after
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urban sociologists began their intensive study of the city and political scientists became empirical students of public administration and political behavior, our image of the city is in a process of dissolution" (p. 20). Now, some 35 years after he wrote this, the image (and the object) is still dissolving, or at least transmuting in ways his book tries to capture. And to continue this quotation, he complained that, "There is little order in our theories, and our data seem largely irrelevant to them" (ibid.). That indictment, too, still has validity. Perhaps our failures come from the sheer vastness of a topic that in the years since his book was written has encompassed more and more of the essence of life in this ever-connecting world.
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