About the Book
This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.
Urban Fortunes
The Political Economy of Place, 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface
Price: $34.95 / £30.00
Publication Date: Aug 2007
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 413
ISBN: 9780520254282
Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.25
About the Author
John R. Logan is Professor of Sociology at Brown University. Harvey L. Molotch is Professor of Sociology at New York University.
Table of Contents
Preface to the 20th Anniversary Edition
Preface to the First Edition
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
References
Name Index
Subject lndex
Preface to the First Edition
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
References
Name Index
Subject lndex
Reviews
— Journal Of Regional Science“[Logan and Molotch’s] book is one of the few that, if you read it, will inspire you to do research that may bolster or refute what they have to say. Either way, it is among a rare breed.”
"Twenty years after publication, Urban Fortunes remains the best book on urban sociology around. Starting from a political economy analysis, Logan and Molotch develop a picture of the formative processes creating the contemporary American city while managing to avoid the pitfalls of determinism."—Susan Fainstein, Harvard University