Handbook of Urban Studies

A comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers this provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies.

TheHandbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies.

Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character of cities.

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