Cities, Real and Ideal : : Categories for an Urban Ontology / / David Weissman.
Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to th...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Categories ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Theories of social structure -- Chapter Two: Systems, Individuals, and the Whole -- Chapter Three: Motivation -- Chapter Four: Circumstances -- Chapter Five: Values -- Chapter Six: Social process -- Chapter Seven: City Form -- Chapter Eight: City Life -- Chapter Nine: Measures of City Health -- Index |
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Summary: | Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a version of social justice appropriate to this structure, thereby updating Marx’s claim that justice is realizable without the intervention of factors additional to society’s material conditions. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110321968 9783110238570 9783110238488 9783110636949 9783110331226 9783110331219 |
ISSN: | 2198-1868 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110321968 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | David Weissman. |