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Critical Urban Studies -- Critical Urban Studies -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: Critical Urban Theory -- 1: City -- 2: Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist, Interpretive Analysis of Urban Politics -- 3: Seeing Like a City: How to Urbanize Political Science -- 4: Reflections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a Critical Epistemology -- 5: Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban Politics -- 6: Keeping It Critical: Resisting the Allure of the Mainstream -- Part II: Critical Urban Policy -- 7: The Trouble with Diversity -- 8: Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality? -- 9: Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods? -- 10: Dispersal as Anti-Poverty Policy -- 11: Beyond Sprawl and Anti-Sprawl -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

AbstractHow can urban studies research engage fruitfully with hip‐hop? This contribution responds to the essays by David Beer and Martin Lamotte on 'street music', urban ethnography and ghettoized communities. It discusses how a social science engagement with hip‐hop texts might differ from cultural studies approaches, and how the study of hip‐hop culture can contribute to social movements studies. The essay argues that academics can utilize this form of 'urban' culture in various ways when undertaking urban research, teaching urban studies and engaging a broader public in academic research.

This commentary responds to Bas Van Heur's paper 'What, where and who is urban studies?' which assesses the structuring of global urban research by investigating the work of named university centres for urban research. The commentary offers observations and reflections on the historical development of urban studies beyond Van Heur's account and considers this through a discussion of Australian urban research groupings. In doing so the commentary notes the definitional challenges that apply to urban research formations in the context of wider institutional imperatives and dynamics that complicate their intellectual programs. The commentary notes the value of further narrative historical reflection on the discipline and particular historical experiences.

Scholarship on African cities represents a growing yet still scarce subfield in urban studies, especially considering the scale and variety of African urbanisation patterns. The purpose of this Virtual Special Issue is to review the scholarship published on urban Africa in Urban Studies over the past five decades. In this Editorial, we reflect on the contributions of African urban scholarship and present a selection of articles to highlight the ways in which it has shaped key fields of urban studies. We also note the challenges that underpin ongoing lacunae in urban knowledge production and suggest directions for future work. This discussion provides a lens on our understandings of the urban condition in Africa and the general trajectory of urban scholarship.