Cities, real and ideal [[electronic resource] ] : categories for an urban ontology / / David Weissman

• Autore: Weissman David
• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt ; ; New Brunswick, : Ontos Verlag, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns - Philosophy; Ontology
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Theories of social structure -- Chapter Two: Systems, Individuals, and the Whole -- Chapter Three: Motivation -- Chapter Four: Circumstances -- Chapter Five: Values -- Chapter Six: Social process -- Chapter Seven: City Form -- Chapter Eight: City Life -- Chapter Nine: Measures of City Health -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to themselves: orchestras play music too elaborate for a quartet; city densities promote collaborations unachievable in simpler towns. Cities, Real and Ideal avers with von Bertalanffy, Parsons, Simmel, and Wirth that a theory of social structure is empirically testable and confirmed. It proposes a version of social justice appropriate to this structure, thereby updating Marx's claim that justice is realizable without the intervention of factors additional to society's material conditions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cities, real and ideal
• ISBN: 3-11-032196-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779863203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; ; v. 2.