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This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in urban life, including linguistics, literary, identity, gender, architecture, media, locality, globalization, the dynamics of urban society and culture, and urban history.

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

"Cover page" -- "Halftitle page" -- "Title page" -- "Copyright page" -- "Title page" -- "Copyright page" -- "Contents" -- "Preface" -- "Introduction" -- "1 Prolegomenato Urban Analysis" -- "Part One Toward a Cross-disciplinary Approach" -- "2 Urban Growth and Regional Contagion" -- "3 Urban Growth and the Concept of Functional Region1" -- "4 Urban Land Use: An Economic-Geographic Concept" -- "Part Two Urban Analysis: Some Case Studies" -- "5 The Economics of Urban Land Use1" -- "6 The Integration of Metropolitan Federations: the Interaction of Political Theory and Urban Phenomena" -- "7 Social Consequences of Urbanization" -- "Part Three Public Policy for City and Region" -- "8 The Scope of Urban Policy1" -- "9 Housing Policy and Urban Renewal" -- "10 The Conceptof Regional Government and a Proposal for Ontario" -- "Conclusion" -- "11 Approaching the Urban Unit: Some Conclusions and a Beginning" -- "Bibliography

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.