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Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by John Logan; John R Logan; Harvey L Molotch is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface about?
"You can learn a lot by figuring out how cities get built. That is the fundamental assumption of Urban Fortunes. Compared to some other approaches to an urban sociology, we get physical. We study the land and how real estate becomes a commodity that people put buildings on. We want to learn how the configurations of houses, offices, and factories make some people better off and others worse off. We explore not only how benefits and costs accumulate for individuals but also how they aggregate to
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- John Logan; John R Logan; Harvey L Molotch
- Publisher
- Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520934573
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, Social Science, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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