[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
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University of California Press
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