Handbook of urban studies
By: edited by Ronan Paddison.
Contributors: Paddison, Ronan.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 494
Subjects: Cities and towns.; Sociology, Urban.
Other titles: Urban studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I; title: I; title: 1 Studying Cities; title: Ronan Paddison; title: PART I IDENTIFYING THE CITY; title: Introduction; title: 2 Defining the City; title: William H. Frey and Zachary Zimmer; title: 3 Urban Ecology; title: Peter Saunders; title: 4 Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities; title: Hana Wirth-Nesher; title: PART II THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT; title: Introduction; title: 5 The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach; title: J W.R. Whitehand; title: 6 Housing in the Twentieth Century; title: Ray Forrest and Peter Williams; title: 7 Transport and the City; title: Tom Hart; title: 8 Managing Sustainable Urban Environments; title: Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp; title: PART III THE CITY AS PEOPLE; title: Introduction; title: 9 Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and; title: Reurbanization; title: TonyChampion; title: 10 Social Segregation and Social Polarization; title: Chris Hamnett; title: 11 Race Relations in the City; title: Joe T Darden; title: 12 Communities in the City; title: Ronan Paddison; title: 13 Women, Men, Cities; title: Linda M. McDowell; title: 14 Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison; title: Paula D. McClain; title: PART IV THE CITY AS ECONOMY; title: Introduction; title: 15 Urban Scale Economies; title: J Vernon Henderson; title: 16 Cities in the Global Economy; title: Saskia Sassen; title: 17 The Post-fordist City; title: W.E Lever; title: 18 The Post-Industrial City; title: Douglas V Shaw; title: 19 The New Urban Economies; title: Donald McNeill and Aidan While; title: 20 The Growth of Urban Informal Economies; title: Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank; title: PART V THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY; title: Introduction; title: 21 Urban Governance; title: Michael Goldsmith; title: 22 Cities and Services: a Post-Welfarist Analysis 336; title: Stephen J Bailey; title: 23 Social Policy and the City 351; title: Susanne MacGregor; title: PART VI POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN; title: CITIES; title: Introduction 367; title: 24 Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and; title: Postmodernism 369; title: Louis Albrechts and William Denayer; title: 25 Planning, Power and Conflict 385; title: James Simmie; title: 26 Power, Discourses and City Trajectories 402; title: Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson; title: PART VII CITIES IN TRANSITION; title: Introduction 417; title: 27 Cities in Pacific Asia 419; title: David W. Smith; title: I 28 Post-Socialist Cities in Flux 451; title: Grigoriy Kostinskiy; title: I 29 The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to; title: Marginality 466; title: Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani; title: Index 486.