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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

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Handbook of urban studies

Paddison, Ronan

The Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies. Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of u