City, Class and Capital: New Developments in the Political Economy of Cities and Regions

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Holmes & Meier, 1982. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Sponsored by the International Sociological Association Research Committee on the Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, this is a collection of essays which attempt to connect wider changes in the economy and society with patterns of urban and regional development, tracing their effects on everyday life and politics; most were originally presented as papers at the 9th World Congress of Sociology in Uppsala in 1978, some have been published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research; a substantial introduction situtates these essays in the context of the current development of the new urban sociology; contributors are from Britain, France, Italy, the USA, Canada, and Czechoslovakia (black cover with green & yellow lettering and reproduction of Wyndham Lewis' painting "Composition" on the front is slightly rubbed; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy)