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The article engages with the literature that has emerged since the 1990s in urban studies in India and in this context, discusses the nature of India's urban modernity. It suggests that scholars in India participate and engage with the global discussion on urban studies by removing themselves from the epistemic confusions of colonial episteme and of methodological nationalism that has bound sociology in India. It suggests that contemporary processes of capitalism have enveloped the entire territory of the country into an urban space with the mobile upper classes termed 'middle classes' and the state policies linking unevenly the so-called rural and urban areas through new forms of capitalist accumulation. These organise specific patterns of spatial inequalities and exclusions and in turn fuel contradictory processes of politics relating to gender, caste, ethnicity and religiosities. The focus of the urban studies should be to analyse the way the global intersects with regions and localities as these are being spatially constituted in the context of uneven urbanisation.

The following listing is based on the files of centers and public and private research agencies currently engaged in research on urban problems maintained by the staff of Urban Affairs Quarterly. This list will be constantly updated for periodic publication. Any information about new centers and about foreign centers would be deeply appreciated and should be sent to the Quarterly in care of Sage Publications, Inc., 275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California 90212. (N. B. Centers located in the United States are listed by state, and within states, alphabetically by city.)

Graduate education in urban studies can make significant contributions toward strengthening urban research and extension. A new relationship between the academic person and the urban service professional is needed, as well as more interdisciplinary involvement of the research research worker and substantive changes in urban professional education.

Machine generated contents note: I -- I -- 1 Studying Cities -- Ronan Paddison -- PART I IDENTIFYING THE CITY -- Introduction -- 2 Defining the City -- William H. Frey and Zachary Zimmer -- 3 Urban Ecology -- Peter Saunders -- 4 Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities -- Hana Wirth-Nesher -- PART II THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT -- Introduction -- 5 The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach -- J W.R. Whitehand -- 6 Housing in the Twentieth Century -- Ray Forrest and Peter Williams -- 7 Transport and the City -- Tom Hart -- 8 Managing Sustainable Urban Environments -- Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp -- PART III THE CITY AS PEOPLE -- Introduction -- 9 Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and -- Reurbanization -- TonyChampion -- 10 Social Segregation and Social Polarization -- Chris Hamnett -- 11 Race Relations in the City -- Joe T Darden -- 12 Communities in the City -- Ronan Paddison -- 13 Women, Men, Cities -- Linda M. McDowell -- 14 Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison -- Paula D. McClain -- PART IV THE CITY AS ECONOMY -- Introduction -- 15 Urban Scale Economies -- J Vernon Henderson -- 16 Cities in the Global Economy -- Saskia Sassen -- 17 The Post-fordist City -- W.E Lever -- 18 The Post-Industrial City -- Douglas V Shaw -- 19 The New Urban Economies -- Donald McNeill and Aidan While -- 20 The Growth of Urban Informal Economies -- Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank -- PART V THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY -- Introduction -- 21 Urban Governance -- Michael Goldsmith -- 22 Cities and Services: a Post-Welfarist Analysis 336 -- Stephen J Bailey -- 23 Social Policy and the City 351 -- Susanne MacGregor -- PART VI POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN -- CITIES -- Introduction 367 -- 24 Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and -- Postmodernism 369 -- Louis Albrechts and William Denayer -- 25 Planning, Power and Conflict 385 -- James Simmie -- 26 Power, Discourses and City Trajectories 402 -- Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson -- PART VII CITIES IN TRANSITION -- Introduction 417 -- 27 Cities in Pacific Asia 419 -- David W. Smith -- I 28 Post-Socialist Cities in Flux 451 -- Grigoriy Kostinskiy -- I 29 The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to -- Marginality 466 -- Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani -- Index 486