The Gold Coast and the Slum: A
Sociological Study of Chicagos Near
North Side (University of Chicago
Sociological Series) by Harvey
Warren Zorbaugh
A Classic Study
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

Personal Review: The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological
Study of Chicagos Near North Side (University of Chicago
Sociological Series) by Harvey Warren Zorbaugh
The Gold Coast and the Slum is one of the classic studies of the Chicago
School of urban sociology. In that sense, it has been largely superceded
by more sophisticated analyses in the intervening decades, yet in terms of
readability and flair it is very difficult to think of a better introduction to the
world of urban studies. Today, in fact, it reads more like a work of
literature than a sociological study--but in a time in which the relative
fortunes of sociology are on the decline and the fortunes of literary study
are on the rise, it may have more to say now than it did even at the time of
its first publication. When one considers the rise of what are now called
"edge cities," those odd conglomerations of city and suburbia, whose
major products are often far more closely related to the fantastic and the
imaginary than to the tangible products of standard urban industrialism,
perhaps a method which owes more to literary study than to the
quantifying methods sociology has developed since the decline of the
Chicago School is more appropriate. In that sense, The Gold Coast and
the Slum may deserve a fresh look.
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