"The City," first published in 1925 and reprinted here in its entirety, is a cross-section of concerns of the Chicago urban school during the period of its most intense activity. Park and Burgess realized that ecological and economic factors were converted into a social organization by the traditions and aspirations of city dwellers. In their efforts to achieve objectivity, the...(展开全部)

Ashford and LeCroyAs groundbreaking book offers students a balanced, integrated introduction to HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT. Lively and comprehensive, this book succeeds by helping students connect foundation knowledge with practice concerns. Study tables and concept maps (for each discussion of behavior in the development chapters) clarify major phases of biopsych...(展开全部)

This authoritative introduction to the study of human beings and their cultural institutions in cities offers twenty-six readings more than one-half new or revised for the Fourth Edition that form a rich blend of classic studies of enduring interest and important new research. Impressive in scope, the latest edition offers an entirely new section on globalization and transnatio...(展开全部)

Acknowledging that though the disciplines are supposed to be cumulative, there is little in the way of accumulated, general theory, this work opens a dialogue about the appropriate means and ends of social research based in analysis of fundamental issues. This book examines two root issues in the methodology of explanatory social research--the meaning of the idea of causation i...(展开全部)

Acknowledging that though the disciplines are supposed to be cumulative, there is little in the way of accumulated, general theory, this work opens a dialogue about the appropriate means and ends of social research based in analysis of fundamental issues. This book examines two root issues in the methodology of explanatory social research--the meaning of the idea of causation i...(展开全部)

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social spac...(展开全部)

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social spac...(展开全部)

查尔斯·兰德利（Charles Landry）出生于1948年，先后在英国、德国、意大利接受教育。他在1978年创立的“传通媒体”（Comedia），被誉为欧洲最具权威的文化创意规划咨询机构。多年来，兰德利与他的团队跑遍全世界，推展了无数的项目；他在全球45个国家发表过演讲。近几年，则专注于辅导亚洲国家推动城市的创意发展。 其著作有：《创意城市》（The Creative City：A Toolkit for Urban Innovators，2000）、《城市建设的艺术》（The Art of City Making，2006）、《掌握先机：复杂年代的都市生活》（Riding the Rapids：Urban Life in an Age of Complexity，2004），以及与菲尔·伍德合著的《跨文化城市：多元文化的优势》（The Inte...(展开全部)

查尔斯·兰德利（Charles Landry）出生于1948年，先后在英国、德国、意大利接受教育。他在1978年创立的“传通媒体”（Comedia），被誉为欧洲最具权威的文化创意规划咨询机构。多年来，兰德利与他的团队跑遍全世界，推展了无数的项目；他在全球45个国家发表过演讲。近几年，则专注于辅导亚洲国家推动城市的创意发展。 其著作有：《创意城市》（The Creative City：A Toolkit for Urban Innovators，2000）、《城市建设的艺术》（The Art of City Making，2006）、《掌握先机：复杂年代的都市生活》（Riding the Rapids：Urban Life in an Age of Complexity，2004），以及与菲尔·伍德合著的《跨文化城市：多元文化的优势》（The Inte...(展开全部)