Cities in the Urban Age
A Dissent
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
1 The City
2 Wealth, Poverty
3 Destructive, Sustainable
4 Oligarchic, Democratic
5 Intolerant, Tolerant
6 Encountering Contradictions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
1 The City
2 Wealth, Poverty
3 Destructive, Sustainable
4 Oligarchic, Democratic
5 Intolerant, Tolerant
6 Encountering Contradictions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Review Quotes
Choice
“Highly recommended. . .[Cities in the Urban Age] provides an interesting counter perspective to much of contemporary urban scholarship. It will be of strongest interest to students and scholars of urban studies and urban planning as well as urban sociology.”
Journal of Urban Affairs
“In fewer than 200 pages, Beauregard offers a text that is well structured, highly readable, theoretically subtle, and rich in citations. It introduces the reader to complex ideas and scholarship in urban studies, replete with examples that illustrate practical problems of cities. . . .Cities in the Urban Age elevates the importance of engaging with the problems, struggles, and political dimensions of cities and urban life. Dissenting from contemporary urban scholarship, Beauregard challenges narratives of cities as manifestations of social, economic, democratic, and environmental progress.”
Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
“Robert Beauregard has created an elegantly written, cogently framed distillation of the ‘urban problem’—persuading us to weigh the overwhelming physical presence and environmental costs of cities against their potential to pursue the common good. This is a most thoughtful guide to the moral choices that cities face.”
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