Theory of Urbanity - The Economic and Civic Culture of Cities

Urban culture comprises both economic and civic culture, and is the source of a city's vitality. For many of today's urban sprawls, which have a weak and failing economic and civic culture, the task of the urban administration and various economic and civic organizations is to strengthen conditions that can prevent the emergence of urban anomie. With suburbanization, the edge city, and the emergence of cyberspace, some argue that cities, as integrated places of working and living, are things of the past. Zijderveld argues that people remain social animals, who like and need each other's company, particularly in their economic, socio-cultural, and political activities.

Summary

Cities provide for people, not just functionally in terms of jobs, obligations and practical pursuits, but also, and above all, emotionally

Product details

• Authors: Anton Zijderveld, Anton C. Zijderveld, Zijderveld Anton
• Assisted by: Anton Zijderveld (Editor), Anton C. Zijderveld (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.1997
• EAN: 9781560003175
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-317-5
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, Regional / urban economics