Social Theory and the Urban Question

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction to the second edition......Page 8
1 Social theory, capitalism and the urban question......Page 13
2 The urban as an ecological community......Page 42
3 The urban as a cultural form......Page 65
4 The urban as a socio-spatial system......Page 88
5 The urban as ideology......Page 116
6 The urban as a spatial unit of collective consumption......Page 139
7 A non-spatial urban sociology?......Page 180
8 From urban social theory to a sociology of consumption......Page 216
Appendix  A note on the empirical testing of theories......Page 262
Further reading......Page 270
References......Page 276
Index......Page 288