Title Handbook of urban studies / edited by Ronan Paddison.
Imprint London : Sage, 2001.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1 Studying Cities / Ronan Paddison 1
2 Defining the City / William H. Frey, Zachary Zimmer 14
3 Urban Ecology / Peter Saunders 36
4 Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities / Hana Wirth-Nesher 52
5 The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach / J. W. R. Whitehand 69
6 Housing in the Twentieth Century / Ray Forrest, Peter Williams 88
7 Transport and the City / Tom Hart 102
8 Managing Sustainable Urban Environments / Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Peter Nijkamp 124
9 Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization / Tony Champion 143
10 Social Segregation and Social Polarization / Chris Hammett 162
11 Race Relations in the City / Joe T. Darden 177
12 Communities in the City / Ronan Paddison 194
13 Women, Men, Cities / Linda M. McDowell 206
14 Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison / Paula D. McClain 220
15 Urban Scale Economies / J. Vernon Henderson 243
16 Cities in the Global Economy / Saskia Sassen 256
17 The Post-fordist City / W. F. Lever 273
18 The Post-Industrial City / Douglas V. Shaw 284
19 The New Urban Economies / Donald McNeill, Aidan While 296
20 The Growth of Urban Informal Economies / Colin C. Williams, Jan Windebank 308
21 Urban Governance / Michael Goldsmith 325
22 Cities and Services: a Post-Welfarist Analysis / Stephen J. Bailey 336
23 Social Policy and the City / Susanne MacGregor 351
24 Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism / Louis Albrechts, William Denayer 369
25 Planning, Power and Conflict / James Simmie 385
26 Power, Discourses and City Trajectories / Mark Boyle, Robert J. Rogerson 402
27 Cities in Pacific Asia / David W. Smith 419
28 Post-Socialist Cities in Flux / Grigoriy Kostinskiy 451
29 The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to Marginality / Richard Stren, Mohamed Halfant 466
Index 486
Descrip. xvii, 494 p : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Subject Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Add author Paddison, Ronan.
ISBN 080397695X