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A review of the original French edition of this book in the <i>American Journal of Sociology</i> hailed it as "the most finished product yet to emerge from the new (Marxist) school of French urban sociology... The aim of the book is nothing less than to reconceptualize the field of urban sociology. It is carried out in two stages: a critique of the literature of urban sociology (and urbanization) and an attempt to lay the Marxist bases for a reconstructed urban sociology." <p>The problems facing the world's cities, whether problems of development or of decay, cannot be solved until they have been diagnosed. The race riots in Detroit, the shantytowns of Paris, the financial crisis of New York must not be seen in isolation. The mushrooming cities of the third world, demolition and urban sprawl at home are located in a network of economics, social welfare and power politics, and the decisions we are called upon to make elude us in a fog of ideology.</p> <p>This brilliant exposition of the function of the city in social, economic and symbolic terms illuminates the creation and structuring of space by action—administrative, productive and more immediately human. The interaction of envir

Who reads The Urban Question: A Marxist Approach (Social structure and social change)?

Author

Manuel Castells

Publisher

MIT Press; The MIT Press

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262530354

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Social Science, Social_sciences