The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements (Volume 2)

by Manuel Castells

Draws on 12 years of fieldwork in cities around the world to explore the social evolution of urban living from feudal times to the postindustrial city of today. In 450 pages with Index, extremely well-researched with comprehensive notes & case studies. Photographic illustrations throughout. From the personal collection of a noted sociologist, stored 20 years & never used. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing (with full number line) hardcover with its original DJ, beautifully protected in new archival mylar cover.

Genres: Urban Studies, Sociology, Nonfiction, Cities, Theory, Urbanism, Philosophy

471 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, as well as Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, and Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at MIT. He is the author of, among other books, the three-volume work The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture.

Reviews

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thesis book

[Liesda Dachlan]

Actually, I've not read this book at all, but I have read many comments and writing concerning about this book. Though Castells is a neo-Marxian, but the theory he explained, accourding to quaters, seemed expressing the almost emperical social conditions of most of cities, both in developed and developing countries now a days. How the capitalist dominated and changed most of the strategic social spaces in those cities, particularly the cities in developing countries like my country, Indonesia. It seems that the loss of community appears really. But, for Max Weber, it's not really like that as in a society, for the nations in the third world in particularly, the influences of the capitalist cannot totally erase the traditional ties of the community. It's approved by the emprical situation where we still could find some tradisional economic activities developed together with the modern economic.