Experiencing Cities

The fourth edition of Mark Hutter’s Experiencing Cities examines cities and larger metropolitan areas within a truly global framework lending readers much to understand and appreciate about the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people residing in cities. Beginning with the emergence of the first urban centers and continuing to examine the present day and the future of smart cities this book explores the changing cultural and domestic character of the metropolis and offers readers a complete historical and theoretical overview of municipal life. The new edition seamlessly integrates issues of gender race ethnicity sexuality and class in its examination of city and suburban life and further extends the Chicago School of Sociology perspective by combining its traditions with a distinct social psychological orientation derived from symbolic interaction and macro-level examination of social organization social change and power in the urban context. With this strong and sweeping interdisciplinary approach the new edition of Experiencing Cities will continue to enrich students’ understandings of urban life and offer new forward-looking perspective to those working in the fields of urban sociology history politics geography and the arts.