City Lights: An Introduction to Urban Studies

by E. Barbara Phillips

Skillfully blending perspectives from the social sciences with insights from the visual arts and humanities, this lively and imaginative text provides a comprehensive introduction cities and how they work. Focusing on the U.S. city, it covers the major traditional topics as well as cultural pluralism, the impact of the communications revolution, and architecture as symbolic politics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195027973
• ISBN13: 9780195027976
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.3"