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Urban fortunes : the political economy of place / John R. Logan, Harvey L. Molotch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Logan, John R., 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- United States.
- Cities and towns--United States--Growth.
- Cities and towns.
- Growth.
- Human ecology--United States.
- Human ecology.
- Real property, Exchange of--United States.
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Urban economics.
- Cities and towns--Growth.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 383 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Twentieth anniversary edition, with a new preface.
- Other Title:
- Political economy of place
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "You can learn a lot by figuring out how cities get built. That is the fundamental assumption of Urban Fortunes. Compared to some other approaches to an urban sociology, we get physical. We study the land and how real estate becomes a commodity that people put buildings on. We want to learn how the configurations of houses, offices, and factories make some people better off and others worse off. We explore not only how benefits and costs accumulate for individuals but also how they aggregate to create durable differences among places. We try to determine what this then means to people on the ground making a life in the homes and neighborhoods created in this process. That was our goal when we first wrote the book, and here we have a chance to reflect on what we tried to do and how it looks in retrospect and to offer the reader a revised guide to the chapters that follow."--Preface p. vii.
- Contents:
- 1. The Social Construction of Cities
- 2. Places as Commodities
- 3. The City as a Growth Machine
- 4. Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the Neighborhood
- 5. How Government Matters
- 6. Overcoming Resistance to Value-free Development
- 7. The Dependent Future.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-363) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780520254282
- 0520254287
- OCLC:
- 173237603
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