In the following essay, Miller provides an overview of Wirth's career with special attention to the Chicago School and the influence of Karl Mannheim, and divides Wirth's sociology work into two distinct phases.

In the following essay, an editor's introduction to Wirth's selected papers, Reiss provides an overview of Wirth's sociological ideas, and discusses these within the framework of the discipline as a whole.

In the following essay, occasioned by the republication of The Ghetto more than a quarter-century after its original release, Etzioni critiques the seminal work.

In the following essay, Smith delineates the particulars of the Chicago School of Sociology and Wirth 's model of the city, then discusses these in light of later perspectives in urban studies.

In the following essay, Aldous, applying methodology pioneered by Wirth, examines the effects of urbanization on family systems in parts of West Africa.

In the following essay, a review of Community Life and Social Policy, Kolb discusses Wirth's contributions to sociology within the context of a larger tradition.

In the following essay, McKenzie reviews The Ghetto along with another study of urbanism and ethnicity, Harvey W. Zorbaugh's The Gold Coast and the Slum.