People and plans; essays on urban problems and solutions
by Herbert J. Gans
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Sociological study of community development objectives of urban planning in the USA and of urban area poverty and racial segregation (discrimination) - covers the importance of social structure and economic structure issues, neighbourhood and cultural factors in modern society, the processes by which environment influences behaviour, Blacks in slum areas, etc., and suggests that planners must pay more attention to people' s primary values and to the obstacles, in the community and in show more society, to what they consider the 'good life'. References. show lessTags
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Herbert Gans is a German-born American sociologist who was educated at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. Active in urban planning and housing at the beginning of his career, he taught planning and sociology at Columbia Teachers College and subsequently at Columbia University. He is best known for his work on American show more communities, including The Urban Villagers (1962), a study of Boston's West End and The Levittowners (1967). He has focused much of his research on the American middle class. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Economics, General Nonfiction, Art & Design, Politics and Government
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- 309.2 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology [Formerly: History of Social Science] Planning and assistance [no longer used]
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- HT167 .G35 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology City planning
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