cliches of urban doom and other essays

This representative collection of essays reflects 50 years of research, travel and commentary on sociological cliches. Ruth Glass's strength has always been her ability to evoke her subject, as a planner and a sociologist, but most of all, as a powerful witness to the realities of urban existence. Her writing spans an enormous breadth of subjects, from Berlin in the 1930s ti Delhi in the 1980s, her perceptions and insight undiminished. This book provides for the first time a fully representative collection of her essays, reflecting fifty years of research, travel and commentary.