178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers a coherant theoretical introduction to urban sociology. Based on the urban theory of Louis Wirth, it systematically examines Wirth's principal ideas in the contexts of pre-industrial cities, industrial cities and bureaucracies. Morris discusses conditions for the emergence of cities and for industrialization. He relates organisational and ecological accounts of the city and... Read more
Introduction
1. 'Urbanism as a way of life': The urban theory of Louis Wirth
2. The pre-industrial city
3. Wirth's theory and the industrial city
4. Ecological processes in the city
5. Bureaucracy in urban-industrial societies
6. Wirth's theory of urbanism: an overall evaluation
Biography
R.N. Morris
