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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Trends and Prospects -- 1: The Transformation of the Urban Community -- 2: The Form and Structure of the Future Urban Complex -- 3: The Urban Field -- 4: The Rising Demand for Urban Amenities -- 5: The Shape of the Future -- 6: Notes on Southern California -- 7: The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem -- 8 : The Apocalyptic Future -- The Urban Fortress -- NATIONAL COMMISSION ON THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE -- Inevitability Comes to New York -- For Further Reading -- Index

This article traces three phases urban theory: descriptive urban theory, Marxist urban theory, and postcolonial urban theory. It argues that these three types of urban writings do not only differ thematically from, but also critique directly the phase of theory that precedes them. While the descriptive theory of the Chicago School is interested in studying then-new features of urban life, the political-economy paradigm of the Marxist urban theorists argues for a structural analysis of urbanism, pointing to the role of capital accumulation vis-a-vis the production of urban space. Most recently, postcolonial urban theory argues against the political- economy paradigm and its structuralist tendency to theorize world cities in terms of economic-financial relations at the expense of other aspects of urbanism. The article concludes by reviewing the usefulness and limits of writing urban theory around a theme. ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/120397/1/Rugkhapan_NarrativesInUrbanTheory.pdf

part Part I. Introduction -- chapter 1 Explorations in Urban Theory: A Critical Overview -- part Part II. Classical Perspectives on Social Theory and Urban Life -- chapter 2 Social Theory and Social Reality: A Critique -- part Part III. The Structuralist Moment in Urban Political Economy -- chapter 3 Structural Marxist Urban Theory: Class Power, the State, and Urban Crisis -- chapter 4 Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction, and Collective Action (with Richard Tardanico) -- part Part IV. The Poststructural Turn to Transnational Urbanism -- chapter 5 Postmodernism, Urban Ethnography, and the New Social Space of Ethnic Identity -- chapter 6 Transnationalism and the City -- chapter 7 Transnational Urbanism Revisited -- chapter 8 Can You Imagine? Transnational Migration and the Globalization of Grassroots Politics -- part Part V. Political Transnationalism and Citizenship -- chapter 9 Transnationalism, the State, and the Extraterritorial Citizen -- chapter 10 The Two Faces of Transnational Citizenship -- part Part VI. Multi-Scalar, Trans-Local, and Contextual Place-Making -- chapter 11 Power in Place/Places of Power: Contextualizing Transnational Research -- chapter 12 The Global Diffusion of Public Policy: Power Structures and Democratic Accountability.

For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory, sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses attention on the cultural, social, and political practices of urban inhabitants, particularly the way in which their everyday activities have contributed to the social construction of new ethnic identities and new meanings of urban citizenship. Combining the methods of political economy and transnational ethnography, he encourages us to think about new political spaces for practicing 'urban citizenship' by analyzing the connections linking cities to the web of relations to other localities in which they are embedded. Smith systematically analyzes the dynamics of'community power 'and'urban change' under new globalizing trends and increased transnational mobility. Expanding on his original conceptualization of'transnational urbanism, 'he frames urban political life within a wider transnational context of political practice, in which an endless interplay of distinctly situated networks, social practices, and power relations are fought out at multiple scales, in an inexorable politics of inclusion and exclusion.

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text Urban Theory is a comprehensive and integrated primer which covers topics necessary for a full understanding of recent theoretical engagements with cities. The introduction outlines the development of urban theory over the past two hundred years and discusses significant theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges facing the field of urban studies in the context of an increasing globally inter-connected world. The chapters explore twenty-four topics, which are new additions to the urban theoretical debate, highlighting their relationship to long established concerns that continue to have intellectual purchase, and which also engage with rich new and emerging avenues for debate. Each chapter considers the genealogy of the topic at hand and also includes case studies which explain key terms or provide empirical examples to guide the reader to a better understanding of how theory adds to our understanding of the complexities of urban life. This book offers a critical and assessable introduction to original and groundbreaking urban theory and will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in human geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, planning, political science and urban studies.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Three Urban Transformations -- 'Urban' and 'Theory' -- Four Types of City -- Cities of Theory as Theories of Cities -- The Second Edition -- Guide to Further Reading -- PART I Theorizing the City in Time -- 2 Theorizing the Premodern City -- Urban Origins -- The Meaning of Urban Form -- Apocalypse Now -- Guide to Further Reading -- 3 Theorizing the Modern City -- The Economic Rupture and the Marxist Response -- The Progressive Movement -- The Social Rupture -- Guide to Further Reading -- 4 Theorizing the Postmodern City -- The Postindustrial City -- The Postmodern Look -- Postmodern Urban Culture -- The Postmodern City -- Guide to Further Reading -- PART II Theorizing the City in Space -- 5 The City as Network -- Periodic Markets -- Central Place Theory -- National Urban Networks -- The Global Urban Network -- Black Holes and Loose Connections -- Guide to Further Reading -- 6 The Economic City -- The Political Economy of the City -- The Economic Role of Cities -- The City and Economic Globalization -- The Creative-Cultural Economy of Cities -- Getting By -- Guide to Further Reading -- 7 The City of Difference -- The Urban Mosaic -- The Gendered City -- The Racialized City -- The Queer City -- The Immigrant City -- The Cosmopolitan Canopy -- The Performative City -- Guide to Further Reading -- 8 The Political City -- Who Rules? -- Urban Regime Theory -- The Urban Arena -- The Neoliberal City -- The Right to the City -- The Contested City -- Guide to Further Reading -- 9 The Everyday City -- The Erotic City -- Traversing the City -- The Effects of Urban Design -- The City of Emotions -- Guide to Further Reading -- 10 The City and Nature -- Reorientations -- City as Ecosystem -- Urban Political Ecology -- The Cyborg City.

The nightmare (or is it challenge?) that surely all reviewers face at one time or another is to be provided with a set of books that have little or nothing in common. Conversely, the nightmare that review editors face is to have these books collect dust in the same proportion as their conscience grows. The challenge is to reduce the proportion of guilt and dust in sufficient measure whilst at the same time avoiding posing an impossible task for the hapless reviewer. Though all have their merits to a greater or lesser extent, in this case the reader is left to judge for him- or herself whether there is much, if any, coherence to the books under review.

New cultural animal geography offers conceptual tools for a reinterpretation of urbanization in Africa. This article applies transspecies urban theory to the existing literature on urban livestock in the developing world, as well as a case study of chickens in Botswana to demonstrate how cities are inextricably wrapped up in human—animal relations. A focus on animals as influential actors, and interspecies mingling encourages one to acknowledge that animals are shaped by, and are themselves central actors in the constitution of, urban form, function, and dynamics. Recognition of subaltern `animal towns' challenges the perceived centrality of human existence.

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