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"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

Urban civilization began in the Middle East and today this area is one of the most urbanized regions in the Third World. Yet, scholarly research in Middle Eastern urban affairs has lagged behind both the growth of urban studies for other areas of the world and the interest in other aspects of Middle Eastern society. The city is a viable focus for research and such fields as urban geography, urban sociology, urban anthropology and urban history have been increasing in importance in their respective disciplines. This interest is only beginning in Middle Eastern studies, although substantial recent progress has been made as this review will show.

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.

AbstractHow can urban studies research engage fruitfully with hip‐hop? This contribution responds to the essays by David Beer and Martin Lamotte on 'street music', urban ethnography and ghettoized communities. It discusses how a social science engagement with hip‐hop texts might differ from cultural studies approaches, and how the study of hip‐hop culture can contribute to social movements studies. The essay argues that academics can utilize this form of 'urban' culture in various ways when undertaking urban research, teaching urban studies and engaging a broader public in academic research.