The Urban Community A World Perspective

Part of the Sociology of the City series, originally published in 1959, this volume looks at the urban community bringing together rural and urban sociology. It advises that areas need to be looked at in terms the way of the life of the inhabitants and not by size and that urban sociology needs to assume a more global perspective, not just locally.

Chapter 1 - Urbanism as a Way of life, Chapter 2 - The Nature of the Community, Chapter 3 - Communities and Their Natural History, Chapter 4 - The Village Confronted with Urbanism, Chapter 5 - Community Location and Space Occupancy, Chapter 6 - Urbanism and Population Phenomena, Chapter 7 - The Moving about of the Population, Chapter 8 - Urbanism and Its Incongruities, Chapter 9 - Collective Community Behavior, Chapter 10 - Groups and Class under Urbanism, Chapter 11 - Urbanism and the Family, Chapter 12 - How Communities Get Things Done, Chapter 13 - Work and Its Place under Urbanism, Chapter 14 - Leisure: By-product of Urbanism, Chapter 15 - Some Economic Aspects of Urban Living, Chapter 16 - Welfare in the Modern Community, Chapter 17 - Social Change and Conformity under Urbanism, Chapter 18 - Urbanism and Resources Control, Index

Nels Andersen Unesco Institute for Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany