Cities, Real and Ideal

Cities, Real and Ideal
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9783110321968
ISBN-13 : 3110321963
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Book Synopsis Cities, Real and Ideal by : David Weissman

Download or read book Cities, Real and Ideal written by David Weissman and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a version of social justice appropriate to this structure, thereby updating Marx’s claim that justice is realizable without the intervention of factors additional to society’s material conditions.


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