Research Catalog

Title

Urbanization and values / edited by George F. McLean and John Kromkowski.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1991.

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Additional Authors

• McLean, George F.
• Kromkowski, John, 1939-

Description

xii, 380 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values v. 5.

Subject

• Urbanization
• Social values
• Cities and towns > Growth
• Community development, Urban
• Social change
• Social Values

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The polis : the nature of the political community -- Urbanization and social change in Latin America -- Democracy and urbanization in Africa -- The city in modern Nigeria -- Philippine urbanization and Christian values -- An experience of urbanization and human values with the street dwellers in Recife -- Cultural differences and value clashes in African cities -- Urbanization and African traditional values -- Religion, class and ethnicity in Nigeria -- The values of urbanized society in the Socialist system -- Beyond the city -- Are cities communities : early debates on urbanism in the German Federal Republic -- The role of the family in the formation and transmission of culture -- The hierarchy of human values.

ISBN

• 1565180119
• 1565180100 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91058116^

OCLC

24430524

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library