Urban Problems Reader

(for Sociology 182, “urban problems”, spring 2005)

Table of Contents

city lights

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, “Global social change in the long run”

Christopher Chase-Dunn “The role of ecosettlement systems in social evolution”

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Daniel Pasciuti, Alexis Alvarez and Thomas D. Hall “ The ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian world-systems”

Christopher Chase-Dunn, Alexis Alvarez and Daniel Pasciuti, “Power and size: urbanization and empire formation in world-systems”

Christopher Chase-Dunn and E. Susan Manning, “City systems and world-systems: Four millennia of city growth and decline’

Christopher Chase-Dunn and Terry Boswell, “Global democracy: a world-systems perspective”

the postmodern city