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Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson.
Author
Sampson, Robert J., 1956-
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English
Published/Created
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
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xviii, 534 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Architecture Library - Stacks
F548.3 .S26 2011
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Neighborhoods
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Illinois
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Chicago
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Chicago (Ill.)
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Social conditions
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Summary note
To demonstrate the powerfully enduring effect of place, this text reviews a decade of research in Chicago, to demonstrate how neighborhoods influence social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement & altruism.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Setting and thesis. Placed ; Neighborhood effects: the evolution of an idea
Part II: Principles and method. Analytic approach ; The making of the Chicago project
Part III: Community-level processes. Legacies of inequality ; "Broken windows" and the meanings of disorder ; The theory of collective efficacy ; Civic society and the organizational imperative ; Social altruism, cynicism, and the "good community"
Part IV: Interlocking structures. Spatial logic; or, why neighbors of neighborhoods matter ; Trading places: experiments and neighborhood effects in a social world ; Individual selection as a social process ; Network mechanisms of interneighborhood migration ; Leadership and the higher-order structure of elite connections
Part V: Synthesis and revisit. Neighborhood effects and a theory of context ; Aftermath: Chicago 2010 ; The twenty-first-century Gold Coast and slum.
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ISBN
9780226734569 ((cloth))
0226734560 ((paper))
9780226733869 ((cloth))
0226733866 ((paper))
022605568X ((pbk.))
9780226055688 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2011029350
OCLC
711050873
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Great American city [electronic resource] : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson.
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Great American city : Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect / Robert J. Sampson ; foreword by William Julius Wilson.
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