Jan Lin is Associate Professor of Sociology at Occidental College, Los Angeles.Christopher Mele is Associate Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.

• Part 1: Urbanization and Community 1. Community and Society Ferdinand Tonnies 2. The Metropolis and Mental Life Georg Simmel 3. Urbanism as a Way of Life Louis Wirth 4. Theories of Urbanism Claude S. Fischer 5. The Uses of City Neighborhoods Jane Jacobs 6. Networks, Neighborhoods, and Communities Barry Wellman 7. Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Robert Putnam Part 2: Understanding Urban Growth in the Capitalist City 8. Human Ecology Robert Park 9. The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project Ernest Burgess 10. The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis David Harvey 11. The City as a Growth Machine John Logan and Harvey Molotch 12. Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City Gregory Squires 13. Los Angeles and the Chicago School: Invitation to a Debate Michael Dear 14. Cities and the Geographies of Actually Existing Neoliberalism Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore 15. Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century Peter Dreier, John Mollenkopf and Todd Swanstrom 16. Urban Ecological Footprints: Why Cities Cannot Be Sustainable—And Why They Are A Key to Sustainability William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel Part 3: Racial and Social Inequality 17. The Philadelphia Negro W.E.B. DuBois 18. The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City Loic Wacquant and William Julius Wilson 19. Segregation and the Making of the Underclass Douglas S. Massey and Nancy Denton 20. The Immigrant Enclave: Theory and Empirical Examples Alejandro Portes and Robert D. Manning