Handbook of Urban Studies
Edited by:
- Ronan Paddison - University of Glasgow, UK
December 2000 | 512 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The Handbook 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.
Ronan Paddison
Studying Cities
PART ONE: IDENTIFYING THE CITY
William H Frey and Zachary Zimmer
Defining the City
Peter Saunders
Urban Ecology
Hana Wirth-Nesher
Impartial Maps
PART TWO: THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT
J W R Whitehand
The Physical Form of Cities
Ray Forrest and Peter Williams
Housing in the Twentieth Century
Tom Hart
Transport and the City
Robert Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp
Managing Sustainable Urban Environments
PART THREE: THE CITY AS PEOPLE
Tony Champion
Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization
Chris Hamnett
Social Segregation and Social Polarization
Joe T Darden
Race Relations in the City
Ronan Paddison
Communities in the City
Linda M McDowell
Women, Men, Cities
Paula D McClain
Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe
PART FOUR: THE CITY AS ECONOMY
J Vernon Henderson
Urban Scale Economies
Saskia Sassen
Cities in the Global Economy
W F Lever
The Post-Fordist City
Doug V Shaw
The Post-Industrial City
Donald McNeill and Aidan While
The New Urban Economies
Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank
The Growth of Urban Informal Economies
PART FIVE: THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY
Michael Goldsmith
Urban Governance
Stephen J Bailey
Cities and Services
Susanne MacGregor
Social Policy and the City
PART SIX: POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES
Louis Albrechts and William Denayer
Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism
James Simmie
Planning, Power and Conflict
Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson
Power, Discourse and City Trajectories
PART SEVEN: CITIES IN TRANSITION
David W Smith
Cities in Pacific Asia
Grigoriy Kostinskiy
Post-Socialist Cities in Flux
Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani
The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa