# The city

Author: Park, Robert Ezra, 1864-1944; Burgess, E. W. (Ernest Watson), 1886-1966; McKenzie, Roderick Duncan, 1885-1940; Wirth, Louis, 1897-1952 [Contributor]

Genre: Category: Sociology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73285

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## Summary

The city, from the point of view of this paper, is something more than a congeries of individual men and of social conveniences—streets, buildings, electric lights, tramways, and telephones, etc.; something more, also, than a mere constellation of institutions and administrative devices—courts, hospitals, schools, police, and civil functionaries of various sorts. The city is, rather, a state of mind, a body of customs and traditions, and of the organized attitudes and sentiments that inhere in these customs and are transmitted with this tradition. The city is not, in other words, merely a physical mechanism and an artificial construction. It is involved in the vital processes of the peopl...

## Chapters

- [Chapter i outlines the location of cities and classifies them](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-city-73285/chapters/9/index.md)