Urban Sociology for Mr. Hiroshi Suzuki:

The Future of Urban Sociology

Structuralist Marxism, urban sociology and geography: reflections on Urban sociology: critical essays

Urban sociology: critical essays is largely a set of translations of articles on urban development, first published in French in 1968-72, and written by authors adopting a Marxist perspective. Chris Pickvance's collection was one of the first attempts to introduce to an English-language audience a new research tradition that profoundly influenced not just urban sociology but also urban, regiona...

Some Problems of and Futures for Urban Sociology: Toward a Sociology of Settlements

Forty years ago, Manuel Castells asked whether urban sociology had a subject matter and whether the term urban still had meaning—and this article reopens these and related questions. It also wonders why today’s American urban sociology has concentrated on cities, especially big ones, concurrently virtually ignoring the three other types of communities—suburbs, towns, and rural areas—in which a ...

Urban Sociology in the 21st Century

I dentifying critical issues confronting an urban sociology of the twenty-first century entails a decision and a judgment, both in turn inevitably derived from an interpretation of history in the making. The enterprise is, thus, partial and positioned. Developing analytical and empirical elements (and I emphasize elements) for an urban sociology focused on the early twenty-first century does no...

Hiroshi Nonoguchi

Amlal, Hassane, Sulaiman Sheriff, and Manoocher Soleimani. Upregulation of collecting duct aquaporin-2 by metabolic acidosis: role of vasopressin. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 286: C1019–C1030, 2004. First published December 24, 2003; 10.1152/ajpcell.00394. 2003.—Metabolic acidosis is associated with alteration in fluid and electrolyte reabsorption in a number of nephron segments. However, the eff...