DirectoryBooksNewsletterAbout

The Urban World

The SocioWeb » Books » Sociology Books » The Urban World

The Urban World

By: J. John Palen  

Buy it now at Amazon.com!

Lowest New Price: $44.00
List Price: $59.95

Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Description:
Long the leading text in urban sociology, The Urban World continues to provide a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a 21st century view of the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patterns and the changing nature of urban life. Combining expert scholarship with a readable style that students appreciate, J. John Palen is one of America's leading urban sociologists, who travels the world and adds new insights gleaned firsthand to each succeeding edition of his text.

Publisher: Paradigm Publishers

Customer Review: 5 out of 5
Informative and relatively interesting read - I got this book for a class but I was pleasantly surprised that it was easier to get through than a lot of textbooks. Has a lot of random but interesting facts and a good number a photos to break up the text.

Customer Review: 4 out of 5
our surroundings - this is a great book if you would like to know how the city and others cities have changed . the many changes you will learn about is transportation, the economy, population and anything else ther is to do with the world changes.

--> Find out more about "The Urban World" at Amazon.com or Order Now