by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess
foreword by Robert J. Sampson
University of Chicago Press, 2019
eISBN: 978-0-226-63664-1 | Paper: 978-0-226-63650-4
Library of Congress Classification HT151.P3 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were among the first to document the interplay between urban individuals and larger social structures and institutions, seeking patterns within the city’s riot of people, events, and influences. As sociologist Robert J. Sampson notes in his new foreword, though much has changed since The City was first published, we can still benefit from its charge to explain where and why individuals and social groups live as they do.