CONTENTS Preface V 1 Geographic Thought and Practice 1 2 Modern Viewpoints in Geography 8 3 Some Research Themes 21 4 The Methods of Geography 44 5 The Essence of Geography 59 Beyond 'Culture City' 68 Glasgow as a 'Dual City 7 'Race' Housing and the City 86 8. Violence, Space and Gender 103 The Social and Spatial Parameters of Violence Against Women and Men 9 Challenging Perceptions 123 'Community' and Neighbourliness on a Difficult-to-lct Estate 10 Hegemony and Regime in Urban Governance 137 Towards a Theory of the Locally Networked State 11Urban Partnerships, Economic Regeneration and the 'Healthy City' 153 12 Policing Late Modernity 168 Changing Strategies of Crime Management in Contemporary Britain 13 Poverty and Partnership in the Third European Poverty Programme The Liverpool Case 185 14 Downtown Redevelopment and Community Resistance An International Perspective 202 15 Religion, Education and City Politics A Case Study of Community Mobilisation 218 16 Poverty, Excluded Communities and Local Democracy 233 17 Development of Geographic Thought 251 Index 262