{"product_id":"cities-real-and-ideal-categories-for-an-urban-ontology-9783110321623","title":"Cities, Real and Ideal: Categories for an Urban Ontology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Weissman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCities 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969681604759,"sku":"9783110321623","price":17963.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110321623.webp?v=1782923286","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cities-real-and-ideal-categories-for-an-urban-ontology-9783110321623","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}