The Unheavenly City Revisited, - Softcover

BANFIELD, Edward C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316080136 ISBN 13: 9780316080132

Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co, 1974

Synopsis

One of the most widely read and widely debated books on contemporary American urban problems! In the more than twenty years since this book was written, the situation of the American city has not changed fundamentally. This is particularly true of the big cities an their larger, older suburbs. All of the old problems are still with us: racial injustice and animosity, poverty, crime, joblessness, ignorance and what goes with them. Some problems that at one time went almost unnoticed are now conspicuous: homelessness and drug abuse among them. The Unheavenly City Revisited explores what the social sciences have had to say about the problems facing American cities. It tries to make useful applications of some of the ideas and findings in economics, sociology, political science, psychology, history, planning and other fields.

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Titles of related interest from Waveland Press: Gmelch et al., Urban Life: Readings in Urban Anthropology, Fifth Edition (ISBN 9781577666349); Howell, Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families (ISBN 9780881335262); and Shannon et al., Urban Problems in Sociological Perspective, Fourth Edition (ISBN 9781577661955).

About this edition

• Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0316080136
• ISBN 13: 9780316080132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348