The city by Robert Ezra Park, E. W. Burgess, and Roderick Duncan McKenzie

"The City" by Robert E. Park, E. W. Burgess, and Roderick Duncan McKenzie is a book published in 1925. This foundational work of the Chicago School of Sociology presents a revolutionary theory: cities function like natural environments, governed by competition for scarce resources. Through intensive research on Chicago, the authors developed the concentric ring theory, proposing that urban spaces divide into distinctive ecological zones shaped by social pressures and economic forces. Their model sought to explain spatial patterns and social problems in modern American cities. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944
Author Burgess, E. W. (Ernest Watson), 1886-1966
Author McKenzie, Roderick Duncan, 1885-1940
Contributor Wirth, Louis, 1897-1952
LoC No. 26000424
Title The city
Original Publication Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1925.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_(Park_and_Burgess_book)
Contents The city: suggestions for the investigation of human behavior in the urban environment, by R. E. Park -- The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project, by E. W. Burgess -- The ecological approach to the study of the human community, by R. D. McKenzie -- The natural history of the newspaper, by R. E. Park -- Community organization and juvenile delinquency, by R. E. Park -- Community organization and the romantic temper, by R. E. Park -- Magic, mentality, and city life, by R. E. Park -- Can neighborhood work have a scientific basis? By E. W. Burgess -- The mind of the hobo: reflections upon the relation between mentality and locomotion, by R. E. Park -- A bibliography of the urban community, by Louis Wirth.
Credits Richard Tonsing, Will Cohen and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 53.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class HT: Social sciences: Communities, Classes, Races
Subject Sociology
Subject Social psychology
Subject Cities and towns
Subject Sociology, Urban
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EBook-No. 73285
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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