1st Edition
Private Pleasure, Public Plight Urban Development, Suburban Sprawl, And The Decline Of Community
By David Popenoe
Copyright 2001
172 Pages
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Routledge
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196 Pages
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This is a social and cultural analysis of community life in metropolitan areas of three nations--the United States, Sweden, and England. The author focuses on how environment and culture interact to shape human behavior. Despite their many similarities, the three societies offer remarkably contrasting urban forms, and thus provide a unique opportunity for comparative research. The findings... Read more
Introduction; I: History; 1: The Rural to Urban Transition; 2: The Path to Metropolitan Life; II: Form; 3: The Metropolitan Setting: A Portrait of Three Metropolitan Areas; 4: Explaining the Dissimilarities of Metropolitan Form; III: Life; 5: Everyday Life in the Metropolitan Area; 6: The Structure of the Metropolitan Community; IV: Change; 7: The Metropolitan Community and the Privatization of Life; 8: Changing the Metropolitan Community in the United States
Biography
Hans Kummer
