The Gold Coast and the Slum

The Gold Coast and the Slum
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9780226989457
ISBN-13 : 0226989453
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Book Synopsis The Gold Coast and the Slum by : Harvey Warren Zorbaugh

Download or read book The Gold Coast and the Slum written by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1983-07-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method."—Christian Century


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