Images of the American City

Anselm Strauss has contributed a useful addition to the literature on American cities and what their images mean to their residents and interpreters. His work identifies major methods by which cities are symbolized, and how these configurations take form in mid-century America. His is an important contribution to urban studies, and no planner or urban sociologist should be without his volume for reference and historical reminder on the varying meanings of 'city.'

--Jon Van Til, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

This study, originally undertaken by Professor Strauss and his late colleague Richard Wohl, is apparently the first full-scale sociological effort to describe the diverse images of American cities in popular literature. . . . [T]he study is suggestive, and it provides an entrEe for more systematic, explicitly theoretical work in this potentially important area. As it stands, the book should be of interest not only to social psychologists and sociologists but to urban historians as well.

--Ephraim Harold Mizruchi, American Sociological Review

Anselm Strauss has contributed a useful addition to the literature on American cities and what their images mean to their residents and interpreters. His work identifies major methods by which cities are symbolized, and how these configurations take form in mid-century America. His is an important contribution to urban studies, and no planner or urban sociologist should be without his volume for reference and historical reminder on the varying meanings of 'city.'

--Jon Van Til, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

This study, originally undertaken by Professor Strauss and his late colleague Richard Wohl, is apparently the first full-scale sociological effort to describe the diverse images of American cities in popular literature. . . . [T]he study is suggestive, and it provides an entrEe for more systematic, explicitly theoretical work in this potentially important area. As it stands, the book should be of interest not only to social psychologists and sociologists but to urban historians as well.

--Ephraim Harold Mizruchi, American Sociological Review

-Anselm Strauss has contributed a useful addition to the literature on American cities and what their images mean to their residents and interpreters. His work identifies major methods by which cities are symbolized, and how these configurations take form in mid-century America. His is an important contribution to urban studies, and no planner or urban sociologist should be without his volume for reference and historical reminder on the varying meanings of 'city.'-

--Jon Van Til, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

-This study, originally undertaken by Professor Strauss and his late colleague Richard Wohl, is apparently the first full-scale sociological effort to describe the diverse images of American cities in popular literature. . . . [T]he study is suggestive, and it provides an entrEe for more systematic, explicitly theoretical work in this potentially important area. As it stands, the book should be of interest not only to social psychologists and sociologists but to urban historians as well.-

--Ephraim Harold Mizruchi, American Sociological Review