Literature Review: Urban Sociology

WCIU Journal: Community and Societal Development Topic

April 6, 2022

Timothy Skinner has an MA in Library Science and has recently joined the organization, international Students, Inc.

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(Note: An asterisk indicates an e-book in Latourette Library.)  

Library of Congress Classification

HT 101 – HT 395  Urban sociology

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Aerial photography in urban sociology                     

City and town life

Community development, Urban                              

Community power

Interviewing in urban sociology                                

Rural-urban relations

Sociology, Urban                                                       

Urban ecology

Urban policy                                                              

Urban renewal

Urbanization

Periodicals

City & Community                             

International Journal of Urban & Regional Research

Journal of Urban Affairs                   

Urban Studies

Periodical Articles

Desmond, Matthew. “Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty.” The American Journal of Sociology 118, no. 1 (2012): 88-133.

Harding, David J. “Cultural Context, Sexual Behavior, and Romantic Relationships in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.” American Sociological Review 72, no. 3 (2007): 341-64.

Harms, Erik. “Urban Space and Exclusion in Asia.” Annual Review of Anthropology 45 (2016): 45-61.

Hunter, Marcus Anthony, and Zandria F. Robinson. “The Sociology of Urban Black America.” Annual Review of Sociology 42 (2016): 385-405.

Reference Books

Companion to Urban and Regional Studies (2021)

Encyclopedia of Urban Studies (2010)

The New Companion to Urban Design (2019)

The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration (2013)

Books

Abrahamson, Mark. 2013. Urban Sociology: A Global Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press.

*Aldrete, Gregory S. 2004. Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

*Bosworth, Clifford Edmund. 2007. Historic Cities of the Islamic World. Boston: Brill.

*Davies, Jonathan S., and David L. Imbroscio. 2010. Critical Urban Studies: New Directions. Albany, NY: State University of New York.

*Franklin, Adrian. 2010. City Life. London; Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

*Gottdiener, Mark, and Ray Hutchison. 2011. The New Urban Sociology. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Harrison, Philip, ed. 2014. Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid. Wits University Press.

Lin, Jan, and Christopher Mele, eds. 2012. The Urban Sociology Reader. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge.

*Lye, Liang Fook, and Gang Chen. 2010. Towards a Liveable and Sustainable Urban Environment: Eco-cities in East Asia. Singapore; Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific.

*Merrifield, Andy. 2014. The New Urban Question. London: Pluto Press.

*Newman, Peter, and Anne Matan. 2013. Green Urbanism in Asia: The Emerging Green Tigers. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing.

*Newton, Peter Wesley. 2011. Urban Consumption. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing.

*Orsi, Robert A., ed. 1999. Gods of the City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

*Reminick, Ronald A. 2010. Addis Ababa: The Evolution of an Urban African Cultural Landscape. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.

*Rich, John. 1992. The City in Late Antiquity. New York: Routledge.

*Sluglett, Peter, ed. 2011. The Urban Social History of the Middle East, 1750-1950. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

*Totah, Faedah M. 2014. Preserving the Old City of Damascus. Syracuse, NY: Syraccuse University Press.

*Zukin, Sharon. 2010. Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places. New York: Oxford University Press.