CONTENTS : Preface ix Acknowledgements xii Notes on Contributors xiii 1 Studying Cities 1 Ronan Paddison PART IIDENTIFYING THE CITY Introduction 11 2Defining the City 14 William H. Frey and Zachary Zimmer 3Urban Ecology 36 Peter Saunders 4Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities 52 Hana Wirth-Nesher PART IITHE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT Introduction 67 5The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach 69 J.W.R. Whitehand 6Housing in the Twentieth Century 88 Ray Forrest and Peter Williams 7Transport and the City 102 Tom Hart 8Managing Sustainable Urban Environments 124 Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp PART IIITHE CITY AS PEOPLE Introduction 141 9Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization 143 Tony Champion 10Social Segregation and Social Polarization 162 Chris Hamnett 11 Race Relations in the City 177 Joe T. Darden 12Communities in the City 194 Ronan Paddison 13Women, Men, Cities 206 Linda M. McDowell 14Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison 220 Paula D. McClain PART IV THE CITY AS ECONOMY Introduction 241 15Urban Scale Economies 243 J. Vernon Henderson 16Cities in the Global Economy 256 Saskia Sassen 17The Post-fordist City 273 W.F. Lever 18The Post-Industrial City 284 Douglas V. Shaw 19The New Urban Economies 296 Donald McNeill and Aidan While 20The Growth of Urban Informal Economies 308 Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank PART VTHE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY Introduction 323 21Urban Governance 325 Michael Goldsmith 22Cities and Services: a Post-Welfarist Analysis 336 Stephen J. Bailey 23Social Policy and the City 351 Susanne MacGregor PART VIPOWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES Introduction 367 24Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism 369 Louis Albrechts and William Denayer 25Planning, Power and Conflict 385 James Simmie 26Power, Discourses and City Trajectories 402 Mark Boyle and Robert J. Rogerson PART VIICITIES IN TRANSITION Introduction 417 27Cities in Pacific Asia 419 David W. Smith 28Post-Socialist Cities in Flux 451 Grigoriy Kostinskiy 29The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to Marginality 466 Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani Index 486