This innovative text uses the lens of culture to examine the various theoretical perspectives and paradigms of urban analysis. It explores the city's impact on how we make and consume all types of cultureâart music literature architecture film and moreânot only illustrating the effects the urban environment has on the production of culture but at times how culture has influenced the city. Theoretically diverse Urban Culture employs the major theoretical perspectives in sociology and the major paradigms in Urban Sociology and Urban Studies: Urban Ecology Marxism New Urbanism Socio-Psychological Perspective Structuralists/Econometrics and Urban Elites/ Entrepreneurs. Urban Terrorism is also addressed to provide a timely examination of the cultural impact and sociological effects of terrorism in an urban setting. . Language: English