Handbook of Urban Studies

Studying Cities - Ronan Paddison PART ONE: IDENTIFYING THE CITY Defining the City - William H Frey and Zachary Zimmer Urban Ecology - Peter Saunders Impartial Maps - Hana Wirth-Nesher Reading and Writing Cities PART TWO: THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT The Physical Form of Cities - J W R Whitehand A Historico-Geographical Approach Housing in the Twentieth Century - Ray Forrest and Peter Williams Transport and the City - Tom Hart Managing Sustainable Urban Environments - Robert Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp PART THREE: THE CITY AS PEOPLE Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization - Tony Champion Social Segregation and Social Polarization - Chris Hamnett Race Relations in the City - Joe T Darden Communities in the City - Ronan Paddison Women, Men, Cities - Linda M McDowell Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe - Paula D McClain A Comparison PART FOUR: THE CITY AS ECONOMY Urban Scale Economies - J Vernon Henderson Cities in the Global Economy - Saskia Sassen The Post-Fordist City - W F Lever The Post-Industrial City - Doug V Shaw The New Urban Economies - Donald McNeill and Aidan While The Growth of Urban Informal Economies - Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank PART FIVE: THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY Urban Governance - Michael Goldsmith Cities and Services - Stephen J Bailey A Post-Welfarist Analysis Social Policy and the City - Susanne MacGregor PART SIX: POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism - Louis Albrechts and William Denayer Planning, Power and Conflict - James Simmie Power, Discourse and City Trajectories - Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson PART SEVEN: CITIES IN TRANSITION Cities in Pacific Asia - David W Smith Post-Socialist Cities in Flux - Grigoriy Kostinskiy The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa - Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani From Dependency to Marginality