1. There are available at the present time a number of fairly exhaustive systematic studies of various cities. In most instances they represent the combined efforts of many students, extending over a period of years, to explore the realms of urban life in diverse parts of the world, generally with a definite objective in view. Only a few of such studies have been listed under this category.
Booth, Charles. Life and Labor of the People of London (16 vols.; London, 1892).
Attempts to describe the people of London “as they exist in London under the influence of education, religion, and administration.” Required seventeen years for its completion. Contains a wealth of information about the city and city life.
Gamble, Sidney D. Peking: A Social Survey (New York, 1921).
Harrison, Shelby M. Social Conditions in an American City: A Summary of the Findings of the Springfield Survey (New York, 1920).
Johnson, Clarence Richard. Constantinople Today, or the Pathfinder Survey of Constantinople: A Study in Oriental Social Life (New York and London, 1923).
Kellogg, Paul U. (editor). The Pittsburgh Survey (6 vols.; New York, 1914).
Kenngott, George F. The Record of a City: A Social Survey of Lowell, Massachusetts (New York, 1912).
Ostwald, Hans O. A. “Grossstadt Dokumente,” (Berlin, 1905).
A series of fifty volumes by various authors giving accounts of personal experience and investigation in the local communities and among various groupings and personality types in the city of Berlin and in some other large cities of Europe.