Download or read book Urban Fortunes written by John R. Logan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twenty years after publication, Urban Fortunes remains the best book on urban sociology around. Starting from a political economy analysis, Logan and Molotch develop a picture of the formative processes creating the contemporary American city while managing to avoid the pitfalls of determinism."—Susan Fainstein, Harvard University