Sustainable Urbanism…Sociology and the Social Sphere of Sustainability.

CharacterTowns.org is devoted to the ideas and ideals of sustainable urbanism and especially the social sphere of the sustainability system. Sociology and thereby sociologists have a great deal to add to the urban planning profession and practice. It is a bit bold to presume that cities can be planned and designed without at least a casual knowledge of sociology; a discipline that examines how people interact with each other.

FOUNDERS.

Sociology is a relatively new discipline; like city planning. Of the three acknowledged founders of sociology, Karl Marx was the first; he began publishing books in the 1840s. Das Kapital was published in 1867. Max Weber and George Herbert Mead followed at the turn of the century.