[URBANTH-L]NEW REPACKAGE: Urban Fortunes
L Guevarra
l_guevarra at ucpress.edu
Thu Aug 30 11:52:34 EDT 2007
Dear Urbanth-L:
The University of California Press is pleased to announce the repackage of:
Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, 20th Anniversary Edition
John R. Logan is Professor of Sociology at Brown University.
<B>Harvey L. Molotch </B>is Professor of Sociology at New York
University.
http://go.ucpress.edu/Logan
"Twenty years after publication, _Urban Fortunes _remains the best
book on urban sociology around. Starting from a political economy
analysis, Logan and Molotch develop a picture of the formative
processes creating the contemporary American city while managing to
avoid the pitfalls of determinism."-Susan Fainstein, Harvard
University
"The most celebrated research synthesis [in urban sociology]. . . in
several decades."-John Walton, _Annual Review of Sociology _
This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the
authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during
the twenty-year life of this influential work.
Full information about the bookis available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Logan
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Lolita Guevarra
Electronic Marketing Coordinator
University of California Press
Tel. 510.643.4738 | Fax 510.643.7127
lolita.guevarra at ucpress.edu
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