The city, revisited : urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York

'The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis.Contributors: Janet Abu-Lughod, Northwestern U and New School for Social Research; Robert Beauregard, Columbia U; Larry Bennett, DePaul U; Andrew A. Beveridge, Queens College and CUNY; Amy Bridges, U of California, San Diego; Terry Nichols Clark, U of Chicago; Nicholas Dahmann, U of Southern California; Michael Dear, U of California, Berkeley; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Frank Gaffikin, Queen's U of Belfast; David Halle, U of California, Los Angeles; Tom Kelly, U of Illinois at Chicago; Ratoola Kunda, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; John Mollenkopf, CUNY; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; Francisco Sabatini, Ponticia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Rodrigo Salcedo, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Santiago; Dick Simpson, U of Illinois at Chicago; Daphne Spain, U of Virginia; Costas Spirou, National-Louis U in Chicago.' Revisiting Urban Theory -- Theorizing The City / Dennis R. Judd -- Grounded Theory : Not Abstract Words But Tools Of Analysis / Janet Abu-lughod -- The Chicago Of Jane Addams And Ernest Burgess : Same City, Different Visions / Daphne Spain -- The View From Los Angeles -- Urban Politics And The Los Angeles School Of Urbanism / Michael Dear And Nicholas Dahmann -- The Sun Also Rises In The West / Amy Bridges -- From The Chicago To The L.a. School : Whither The Local State? / Steven P. Erie And Scott A. Mackenzie -- The View From New York -- The Rise And Decline Of The L.a. And New York Schools / David Halle And Andrew A. Beveridge -- School Is Out : The Case Of New York City / John Hull Mollenkopf -- Radical Uniqueness And The Flight From Urban Theory / Robert A. Beauregard -- The View From Chicago -- The New Chicago School Of Urbanism And The New Daley Machine / Dick Simpson And Tom Kelly -- The New Chicago School : Notes Towards A Theory / Terry Nichols Clark -- The Mayor Among His Peers : Interpreting Richard M. Daley / Larry Bennett -- Both Center And Periphery : Chicago's Metropolitan Expansion And The New Downtowns / Costas Spirou -- The Utility Of U.s. Urban Theory -- The City And Its Politics : Informal And Contested / Frank Gaffikin, David C. Perry, And Ratoola Kundu -- Understanding Deep Urban Change : Patterns Of Residential Segregation In Latin American Cities / Francisco Sabatini And Rodrigo Salcedo -- Studying Twenty-first Century Cities / Dick Simpson And Tom Kelly. Dennis R. Judd And Dick Simpson, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover Contents Part I. Revisiting Urban Theory 1. Theorizing the City 2. Grounded Theory: Not Abstract Words but Tools of Analysis 3. The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess: Same City, Different Visions Part II. The View from Los Angeles 4. Urban Politics and the Los Angeles School of Urbanism 5. The Sun Also Rises in the West 6. From the Chicago to the L.A. School: Whither the Local State? Part III. The View from New York 7. The Rise and Decline of the L.A. and New York Schools 8. School Is Out: The Case of New York City 9. Radical Uniqueness and the Flight from Urban Theory Part IV. The View from Chicago 10. The New Chicago School of Urbanism and the New Daley Machine 11. The New Chicago School: Notes toward a Theory 12. The Mayor among His Peers: Interpreting Richard M. Daley 13. Both Center and Periphery: Chicago’s Metropolitan Expansion and the New Downtowns Part V. The Utility of U.S. Urban Theory 14. The City and Its Politics: Informal and Contested 15. Understanding Deep Urban Change: Patterns of Residential Segregation in Latin American Cities 16. Studying Twenty-first Century Cities Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Z This contributors to this book trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic 'The City', engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of 20th-century urban development are relevant for studying the 21st-century metropolis. Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.