TY  - GEN
AU  - Davies, Jonathan S. Ed.
AU  - Imbroscio, David L Ed.
TI  - Critical urban studies: new directions 
SN  - 9781438433066
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State university of New York press
N1  - CONTENTS
Foreword	vii
Clarence N. Stone
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1
Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Imbroscio
PART I: Critical Urban Theory
1. City
Elvin Wyly
2. Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist,
Interpretive Analysis of Urban Politics	23
Mara S. Sidney
3. Seeing like a City: How to Urbanize Political Science	41
Warren Magnusson
4. Reflections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a
Critical Epistemology	55
Julie-Anne Boudreau
5. Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban Politics	73
Jonathan S. Davies
6. Keeping it Critical: Resisting the Allure of the Mainstream 89
David L. Imbroscio
PART II: Critical Urban Policy
7. The Trouble with Diversity 107 
Jeff Spinner-Halev
8. Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality? 121
Yasminah Beebeejaun
9. Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and
Neighborhoods? 135 
James DeFilippis and Jim Eraser
10. Dispersal as Anti-Poverty Policy 149 
Edward G. Goetz and Karen Chappie
11. Beyond Sprawl and Anti-Sprawl 165 
Thad Williamson
Bibliography 183
List of Contributors 209
Index 213



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