Professional paper
Engaged Urban Sociology (By the Occasion of the Fifth Anniversary of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research)
Ognjen Čaldarović
; Filozofski fakultet, Zagreb
Abstract
The contribution is a review of the five years of publication of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. The Journal, being an organ of the International Sociological Association and its Committee for Regional and Urban Research, assembled numerous researchers from different countries. The review briefly presents the topics dealt with in the journal during the latest five years. They included attitudes towards the problematic of urban planning, on the operation of the urban economics in the USA, on the crisis of cities in the USA, on the problems of new towns in France, on some theoretical problems of theories applied in urban sociology, while it also presented the plans of the future activities of the Committee for Urban and Regional Research and the concrete discussion program for the 1982 Congress of Sociologists in Mexico. Some of the interesting opinions of famous urban sociologists are presented, those of Castells, Szeleny and others. At the end, the translation of the contents of the latest three volumes is given.
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155955
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Publication date:
30.6.1981.
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