Cities, Real and Ideal : : Categories for an Urban Ontology / / David Weissman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Weissman, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Categories , 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• 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
• 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.

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.