Subject(s): Sociology, Urban in History. -- Capitalism. -- Roots (development ) of urban sociology -- Cities and uneven economic development -- Inequality and social organisation in the city -- Urban space and segregation -- labour market and housing markets -- Social space: suburbanisation and gentrification -- Inequalities, polarisation -- Perspective of urban culture -- Metropolitan culture -- Culture of modernity -- Modernity, post-modernity and urban culture -- Urban architecture -- Social construction -- urban culture and post-modernity -- Urban politics -- Local state and economic development -- Place and political identification -- Urban participation and social order -- Urban sociology, capitalism and modernity