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.