"This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century
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Harvey Warren Zorbaugh (1896-1965) was professor of educational sociology at New York University. He recieved his PhD at the University of Chicago under Robert E. Park. The Gold Coast and the Slum, a book based on his PhD thesis, became a classic work of sociology.
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A Classic Study,
This review is from: The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side (University of Chicago Sociological Series) (Paperback)
The Gold Coast and the Slum is one of the classic studies of the Chicago School of urban sociology. In that sense, it has been largely superceded by more sophisticated analyses in the intervening decades, yet in terms of readability and flair it is very difficult to think of a better introduction to the world of urban studies. Today, in fact, it reads more like a work of literature than a sociological study--but in a time in which the relative fortunes of sociology are on the decline and the fortunes of literary study are on the rise, it may have more to say now than it did even at the time of its first publication. When one considers the rise of what are now called "edge cities," those odd conglomerations of city and suburbia, whose major products are often far more closely related to the fantastic and the imaginary than to the tangible products of standard urban industrialism, perhaps a method which owes more to literary study than to the quantifying methods sociology has developed since the decline of the Chicago School is more appropriate. In that sense, The Gold Coast and the Slum may deserve a fresh look.
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The Chicago River, its waters stained by industry, flows back upon itself, branching to divide the city into the South Side, the North Side, and "the great West Side." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
little white way, fashionable residence district, near north side, occupational attitudes, death corner, charity girl Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gold Coast, Clark Street, Chicago Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, New York, Lower North Community Council, North Avenue, Lincoln Park, State Street, North Michigan Avenue, United Charities, Division Street, Oak Street, South Side, United States, Wells Street, Fifth Avenue, Old World, Black Hand, Drake Hotel, Four Hundred, Bughouse Square, Chicago River, Chicago Tribune, Washington Square New!
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The Chicago River, its waters stained by industry, flows back upon itself, branching to divide the city into the South Side, the North Side, and "the great West Side." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
little white way, fashionable residence district, near north side, occupational attitudes, death corner, charity girl Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gold Coast, Clark Street, Chicago Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, New York, Lower North Community Council, North Avenue, Lincoln Park, State Street, North Michigan Avenue, United Charities, Division Street, Oak Street, South Side, United States, Wells Street, Fifth Avenue, Old World, Black Hand, Drake Hotel, Four Hundred, Bughouse Square, Chicago River, Chicago Tribune, Washington Square New!
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- Social Ladder (The Leisure class in America) by Mary K. Van Rensselaer on page 48, and page 50
- The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A CLASSIC WORK IN IMMIGRATION HISTORY by William Thomas on page 221, and page 250
- The Garden City: Past, present and future (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment, No 15) by Stephen Ward on page 19
- Principles of City Land Values (The Rise of Urban America) by Richard Melancthon Hurd on page 227
- Why Families Move by Peter Henry Rossi in Front Matter
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