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The unheavenly city : the nature and future of our urban crisis / by Edward C. Banfield.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Banfield, Edward C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States.
- Cities and towns.
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 308 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Little, Brown, [1970]
- Contents:
- The logic of metropolitan growth.
- The imperatives of class.
- Race: thinking may make it so.
- The problem of unemployment.
- Several kinds of poverty.
- Schooling versus education.
- Several kinds of crime.
- Rioting mainly for fun and profit.
- The future of the lower class.
- What can be done?
- The prospect.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy is a trade paperback, twelfth printing.
- OCLC:
- 64242
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