Contents // Preface ix // Acknowledgements xii // Notes on Contributors • • • Xlll // 1 Studying Cities Ronan Paddison 1 // PART 1 IDENTIFYING THE CITY // Introduction 11 // 2 Defining the City William H. Frey and Zachary Zimmer 14 // 3 Urban Ecology Peter Saunders 36 // 4 Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities Hana Wirth-Nesher ’ V 52 // PART II THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT // Introduction . 67 // 5 The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach 69 // JW.R. Whitehand // 6 Housing in the Twentieth Century 88 // Ray Forrest and Peter Williams // 7 Transport and the City . 102 // Tom Hart // 8 Managing Sustainable Urban Environments 124 // Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp // VI // Contents // PART III THE CITY AS PEOPLE // Introduction 141 // 9 Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and // Reurbanization 143 // Tony Champion // 10 Social Segregation and Social Polarization 162 // Chris Hamnett // 11 Race Relations in the City 177 // Joe T Darden // 12 Communities in the City 194 // Ronan Paddison // 13 Women, Men, Cities 206 // Linda M. McDowell // 14 Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison 220 // Paula D. McClain // PART IV THE CITY AS ECONOMY // Introduction 241 // 15 Urban Scale Economies 243 // J. Vernon Henderson // 16 Cities in the Global Economy 256 // Saskia Sassen // 17 The Post-fordist City 273 // W.F. Lever // 18 The Post-Industrial City 284 // Douglas V. Shaw // 19 The New Urban Economies - 296 // Donald
McNeil! and Aidan White // 20 The Growth of Urban Informal Economies 308 // Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank // PART V THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY // Introduction 323 // 21 Urban Governance 325 // Michael Goldsmith // Contente // vii // 22 Cities and Services: a Post-Welfarist Analysis 336 // Stephen! 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. Roger son // PART VII CITIES IN TRANSITION // Introduction 417 // 27 Cities in Pacific Asia 419 // David W Smith // 28 Post-Socialist Cities in Flux 451 // Grigoriy Kostinskiy // 29 The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to // Marginality 466 // Richard Siren and Mohamed Half ani // Index // 486