Neighborhood

Neighborhood / Emily Talen.

The term neighborhood has been reduced to a word for a convenient geographical locator. In fact, most cities claim to be compiled of neighborhoods, but this strays far from the term's original meaning - a spatial unit that people relate to. 'Neighborhood' seeks to dispel this common m...

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Main Author: Talen, Emily, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Neighborhoods.
Sociology, Urban.
Community development, Urban.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Community development, Urban
Neighborhoods
Sociology, Urban
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The historical neighborhood and its decline
  • Getting the neighborhood back
  • Reinventing the neighborhood
  • Part II. Design debates
  • The planning problem
  • The self-governed neighborhood
  • Social confusion
  • Neighborhoods and segregation
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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