Table of Contents
An urban crisis? Banfield, E. C. From The unheavenly city: Introduction.--The Urban trek: Tilly, C. From The metropolitan enigma: Race and migration to the American city.--Urban social structure; the case of a slum: Gans, H. J. From The urban villagers. Fried, M. From The urban condition: Grieving for a lost home.--The myth of suburbia: Gans, H. J. From the Levittowners: The setting, theory, and method of the study; Levittown and America. Berger, B. M. From The public interest: Suburbia and the American dream.--Middle Americans: Greeley, A. M. From Why can't they be like us? The Future of ethnic groups. Coles, R. and Erikson, J. From The middle Americans.--Perspectives on poverty in America: Rodman, H. From Social forces: The lower class value stretch. Valentine, C. A. From Culture and poverty: Conclusion: Alternative views of poverty and the poor, present and future. Postscript: A proposal for empowering the poor to reduce inequality.--Black Americans in urban ghettos: Tabb, W. K