The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems

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Brown, 1978 - 511 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 4 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
الصفحة 288 - Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white— separate and unequal.
الصفحة 51 - It is a thesis of this book that the "great change" in community living includes the increasing orientation of local community units toward extra-community systems of which they are a part with a corresponding decline in community cohesion and autonomy.
الصفحة 413 - Uniform Crime Reports," 1965, p. 51. The UCR national totals do not distinguish crimes committed against individuals or households from those committed against businesses or other organizations. The UCR rate for individuals is the published national rate adjusted to eliminate burglaries, larcenies, and vehicle thefts not committed against individuals or households. No adjustment was made for robbery . * There is no report of "offenses known to the police
الصفحة 260 - Nowhere in my schooling do I recall an attempt to put me in touch with my own history. The strategy was clearly to make an American of me. English literature, American literature, and even the history books, as I recall them, were peopled mainly by Anglo-Saxons from Boston (where most historians seemed to live). Not even my native Pennsylvania, let alone my Slovak forebears, counted for very many paragraphs.
الصفحة 46 - Community is founded on man conceived in his wholeness rather than in one or another of the roles, taken separately, that he may hold in a social order. It draws its psychological strength from levels of motivation deeper than those of mere volition or interest, and it achieves its fulfillment in a submergence of individual will that is not possible in unions of mere convenience or rational assent. Community is a fusion of feeling and thought, of tradition and commitment, of membership and volition.
الصفحة 308 - What do I mean by marketable goods? Let me tell you: I had a cousin, a young man who didn't take any particular interest in politics. I went to him and said: 'Tommy, I'm goin' to be a politician, and I want to get a followin'; can I count on you?' He said: 'Sure, George.' That's how I started in business. I got a marketable commodity — one vote. Then I went to the district leader and told him I could command two votes on election day, Tommy's and my own. He smiled on me and told me to go ahead....
الصفحة 98 - By reducing the scale of local distance, the motor vehicle extended the horizon of the community and introduced a territorial division of labor among local institutions and neighboring centers which is unique in the history of settlement.
الصفحة 69 - city" only in cases where the local inhabitants satisfy an economically substantial part of their daily wants in the local ' market, and to an essential extent by products which the local population and that of the immediate hinterland produced for sale in the market or acquired in other ways. In the meaning employed here the "city
الصفحة 260 - I am born of PIGS— those Poles, Italians, Greeks, and Slavs, those non-English-speaking immigrants numbered so heavily among the workingmen of this nation. Not particularly liberal or radical; born into a history not white Anglo-Saxon and not Jewish; born outside what, in America, is considered the intellectual mainstream— and thus privy to neither power nor status nor intellectual voice.

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