Description: This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis
Brief description:
Robert W. Lake is professor at the Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research and co-director of the Rutgers Community Outreach Partnership Center. He is a member of the graduate faculty in the department of geography and the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. His writings include Resolving Locational Conflict, Readings in Urban Analysis, and Real Estate Tax Delinquency.
Review Quotes:
"Using the emerging philosophical and ideological debate among urban analysts as an organizing base, this volume contains sixteen chapters on topics ranging from the urban land and housing markets to gentrification of the city and urban social theory and research. The alternative perspectives offered include the neo-classical, human ecology, institutional, and Marxist approaches. In an introductory chapter, Lake outlines the differences among these approaches and how they have influenced work in urban analysis."
--Policy Studies Review
"The book is a perfect collection to give to graduate students in urban sociology/urban studies--and to paraphrase what George Bernard Shaw said, if instructors in urban sociology also care to look at it, they might learn something. Its value is enhanced by a highly selective bibliography at the end, which classifies 'good books' and articles by 'paradigm.' Thus, the book not only provides an introduction to the changing sociology of knowledge in urban studies but a study guide for further investigation."
--Janet Abu-Lughod, Contemporary Sociology
"Rewarding and meaningful."
--"Urban Geography"
"Excellent."
--"Annals of Regional Science"