Revised edition of the authors' Cities and urban life, 2013.
Urban Life: The Sociology of Cities and Urban Society
Old shops like the butcher's were used as gathering places and as proof of how “things used to be” . The fact that the butcher's was not ... Scholars highlight the role of shops as identity markers . Their names, windows, signs, ...
... could get their grammar, Latin and Greek, “as also Reading and Writing, Arithmetick Vulgar and Decimal, and several Parts of the Mathematicks,” with Master William Robbins, and their French from Daniel Duborn.
This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it.
Park's student and collaborator, Ernest W. Burgess, shared his mentor's quest to find the regularities and patterns in social life that natural scientists were discovering in the natural world. In his 1925 essay, “The Growth of the ...
In New Zealand Society (eds) P. Spoonley, D. Pearson and I. Shirley. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press. Pearson, D.G. and D.C. Thorns. 1983. Eclipse of Equality: Social stratification in New Zealand. Sydney, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
By allowing contemporaries to tell much of the story in their own words, Allen J. Share conveys a sense of the exuberance and dynamism of urban life and thought in Kentucky.
A reprint of the Oxford U. Press edition of 1975 with a new introduction (20 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Gibson, C. (ed.) (2012) Creativity in Peripheral Places: Redefining the Creative Industries. London: Routledge. Gibson, C. and Connell, J. (2011) Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia. Bristol: Channel View Publications.
A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.