Handbook of Urban Studies

by Ronan Paddison

• ISBN13: 9780803976955
• ISBN10: 080397695X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-22
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

With half of the world’s population residents in them, cities dominate how our economies are spatially structured and restructured, and how social life is experienced. Under conditions of accelerating globalization, cities are the principal intermediaries through which economic growth is sustained and have long been the primary loci through which political control is maintained. Taking a holistic viewpoint, the Handbook of Urban Studies provides a comprehensive appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development, and changing character of cities. Leading authors identify and analyze key issues, within the following sections: -Identifying the City -The City as Environment -The City as People -The City as Economy -The City as Organized Polity -Power and Policy Discourses in Postmodern Cities -Cities in Transition A comprehensive overview of the urban condition, this Handbook will appeal to a wide readership, from academics to researchers and policy-makers. As a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing the different disciplines contributing to urban studies, this book forms a unique and indispensable resource for professionals and researchers in urban studies, urban and town planning, social and cultural geography and public administration, as well as for all those concerned with the role of the city and urbanization in the disciplines of politics, sociology and economics.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xii
Notes on Contributors	xiii
Studying Cities	1	(13)
Ronan Paddison
PART I IDENTIFYING THE CITY
Introduction	11	(3)
Defining the City	14	(22)
William H. Frey
Zachary Zimmer
Urban Ecology	36	(16)
Peter Saunders
Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities	52	(17)
Hana Wirth-Nesher
PART II THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT
Introduction	67	(2)
The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach	69	(19)
J.W.R. Whitehand
Housing in the Twentieth Century	88	(14)
Ray Forest
Peter Williams
Transport and the City	102	(22)
Tom Hart
Managing Sustainable Urban Environments	124	(19)
Roberto Camagni
Roberta Capello
Peter Nijkamp
PART II THE CITY AS PEOPLE
Introduction	141	(2)
Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization	143	(19)
Tony Champion
Social Segregation and Social Polarization	162	(15)
Chris Hamnett
Race Relations in the City	177	(17)
Joe T. Darden
Communities in the City	194	(12)
Ronan Paddison
Women, Men, Cities	206	(14)
Linda M. McDowell
Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison	220	(23)
Paula D. McClain
PART IV THE CITY AS ECONOMY
Introduction	241	(2)
Urban Scale Economies	243	(13)
J. Vernon Henderson
Cities in the Global Economy	256	(17)
Saskia Sassen
The Post-fordist City	273	(11)
W.F. Lever
The Post-Industrial City	284	(12)
Douglas V. Shaw
The New Urban Economies	296	(12)
Donald McNeill
Aidan While
The Growth of Urban Informal Economies	308	(17)
Colin C. Williams
Jan Windebank
PART V THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY
Introduction	323	(2)
Urban Governance	325	(11)
Michael Goldsmith
Cities and Services: a Post-Welfarist Analysis	336	(15)
Stephen J. Bailey
Social Policy and the City	351	(18)
Susanne MacGregor
PART VI POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES
Introduction	367	(2)
Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism	369	(16)
Louis Albrechts
William Denayer
Planning, Power and Conflict	385	(17)
James Simmie
Power, Discourses and City Trajectories	402	(17)
Mark Boyle
Robert J. Rogerson
PART VII CITIES IN TRANSITION
Introduction	417	(2)
Cities in Pacific Asia	419	(32)
David W. Smith
Post-Socialist Cities in Flux	451	(15)
Grigority Kostinskiy
The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to Marginality	466	(20)
Richard Stren
Mohamed Halfani
Index	486