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Cities, Real and Ideal: Categories for an Urban Ontology

by David Weissman
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783110321623
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter
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  • Pages: 278
  • Original Price: GBP 141.5
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 542 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a version of social justice appropriate to this structure, thereby updating Marx's claim that justice is realizable without the intervention of factors additional to society's material conditions.

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