URBAN SOCIOLOGY BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

 

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Weber, M. 1966. The City. New York: Free Press,65-89. 

 

Wirth, L. 1938. Urbanism as a Way of Life. American Journal of Sociology 44:1-24.

 

 

and various Introduction to sociology textbooks by Schaefer, Hess, Macionis, Thompson & Hickey

 

 
 
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