http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/4863
Title: | Foreword |
Authors: | Szczepański, Marek S. Gawron, Grzegorz Lewicka, Barbara |
Keywords: | urbanistyka; aspekt społeczny |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego |
Citation: | M. S. Szczepański, G. Gawron, B. Lewicka (red.), "Urbanism as a way of life : trying to rediscover" (S. 7-10). Katowice : Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego |
Abstract: | It was July 1938 when Louis Wirth published his “Urbanism as a Way of Life” in the American Journal of Sociology. The paper was seen by many as the one defining the city as a social phenomenon. Looking beyond its physical structure, economic product or cultural institutions, the author discovers those “elements of urbanism which mark it as a distinctive mode of human group life” (Wirth 1938: 4). Wirth argues that three key characteristics of cities — large population size, social heterogeneity, and population density — contribute to the development of a peculiarly “urban way of life” and a distinct “urban personality”. In his opinion, for centuries casual observers have noted deep personality differences between urban and rural people and between nature-based and machinebased styles of living. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/4863 |
ISBN: | 9788380125919 9788380125926 |
Appears in Collections: | Książki/rozdziały (WNS) |
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