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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

"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.