Handbook of urban studies Machine generated contents note: I I 1 Studying Cities Ronan Paddison PART I IDENTIFYING THE CITY Introduction 2 Defining the City William H. Frey and Zachary Zimmer 3 Urban Ecology Peter Saunders 4 Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities Hana Wirth Nesher PART II THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT Introduction 5 The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico Geographical Approach J W.R. Whitehand 6 Housing in the Twentieth Century Ray Forrest and Peter Williams 7 Transport and the City Tom Hart 8 Managing Sustainable Urban Environments Roberto Camagni Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp PART III THE CITY AS PEOPLE Introduction 9 Urbanization Suburbanization Counterurbanization and Reurbanization TonyChampion 10 Social Segregation and Social Polarization Chris Hamnett 11 Race Relations in the City Joe T Darden 12 Communities in the City Ronan Paddison 13 Women Men Cities Linda M. McDowell 14 Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison Paula D. McClain PART IV THE CITY AS ECONOMY Introduction 15 Urban Scale Economies J Vernon Henderson 16 Cities in the Global Economy Saskia Sassen 17 The Post fordist City W.E Lever 18 The Post Industrial City Douglas V Shaw 19 The New Urban Economies Donald McNeill and Aidan While 20 The Growth of Urban Informal Economies Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank PART V THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY Introduction 21 Urban Governance Michael Goldsmith 22 Cities and Services: a Post Welfarist Analysis 336 Stephen J Bailey 23 Social Policy and the City 351 Susanne MacGregor PART VI POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES Introduction 367 24 Communicative Planning Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism 369 Louis Albrechts and William Denayer 25 Planning Power and Conflict 385 James Simmie 26 Power Discourses and City Trajectories 402 Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson PART VII CITIES IN TRANSITION Introduction 417 27 Cities in Pacific Asia 419 David W. Smith I 28 Post Socialist Cities in Flux 451 Grigoriy Kostinskiy I 29 The Cities of Sub Saharan Africa: From Dependency to Marginality 466 Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani Index 486