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"Fully expanded and updated, the Second Edition of the successful Theories of Urban Politics provides the reader with a comprehensive introduction to and evaluation of the theoretical approaches to urban governance." "Restructured into four new parts - power, governance, citizens, challenges - the Second Edition reflects developments in the field over the last decade, with newly commissioned chapters updating and adding to the theoretical material included in the First Edition." "With contributions from many of the key figures in urban theory today, this text will be required reading on all urban politics, urban planning and public administration courses."--Jacket

This research explores institutional arrangements that govern health literacy promotion policies in Thailand since 2014. This study sets the main questions as what are the main institutional arrangements that governed health literacy promotion policies in Thailand since 2014 and can these arrangements be viewed as collaborative health governance? This paper argues that the military coup in 2014 transformed institutional-governing arrangements on health system management and health promotion greatly as many legal-political institutions and various social-political agencies were involved and brought together to promote health and health literacy. A so-called principle of 'collaborative governance' has been employed and implemented to promote health in Thailand recently, however, this study argues that the institutional constraints under authoritarian regime offer a 'fictitious-collaborative health governance' instead. Furthermore, deliberative processes on health literacy promotion regulated by many legal - institutional constraints had characteristics of 'pseudo-deliberation'. This work is qualitative research, and it analyzes and explains research results by looking through theoretical concepts of institutionalism and collaborative governance. This study argues that to reach the goal of health literate community and society, Thai health agencies and authorities should re-approach health and health literacy promotion from the bottom-up perspective. Also, overcoming fictitious collaborative health promotion and pseudo-deliberation are necessary. To do that, we need a long-term project of building up a 'critical health regime' based on critical education and anti-authoritarianism as major principles. (*The paper was presented at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University's College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPCE) Conference "Post-pandemic health and long-term care: A new paradigm". September 2021)

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.

AbstractCritical urban theory and critical urban studies form the subject of two recent edited collections on approaches to the analysis and transformation of the contemporary capitalist city. In an exchange of commentaries by the respective editors and contributors, the introduction explains the genesis of each book and previews some of the key observations. Peter Marcuse then offers his assessment of Critical Urban Studies: New Directions, which is reciprocated by a commentary on Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City by Jonathan Davies, David Imbroscio and Warren Magnusson.