The Uses of Disorder
Personal Identity and City Life

Publisher:  Vintage
Year Published:  1970
Pages:  198pp   ISBN:  0-394-71308-7
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX6627

An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: A New Puritanism
1. Purified Identity
2. The Myth of a Purified Community
3. How Cities Bring the Myth to Life
4. Planning Purified Cities

Part II: A New Anarchism
Introduction
5. Outgrowing a Purified Identity
6. The Good Uses of the City
7. The City as an Anarchic System
8. Conclusion: Ordinary Lives in Disorder

Subject Headings

• Anarchism
• Anti-Authoritarianism
• Brothels
• Communities/Cities
• Community Bonds
• Community Integration
• Diversification
• Diversity
• Family
• Family Dynamics
• Identity
• Myths/Mythology
• Personal Change
• Planning
• Planning Theory
• Social Alternatives
• Society
• Sociology
• Survival
• Urban
• Urban Core
• Urban History
• Urban Planning