Handbook of Urban Studies/

Chapter 1: Studying Cities
Part I: Identifying the City

Introduction
Chapter 2: Defining the City
Chapter 3: Urban Ecology
Chapter 4: Impartial Maps: Reading and Writing Cities
Part II: The City as Environment

Introduction
Chapter 5: The Physical Form of Cities: A Historico-Geographical Approach
Chapter 6: Housing in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 7: Transport and the City
Chapter 8: Managing Sustainable Urban Environments
Part III: The City as People

Introduction
Chapter 9: Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization
Chapter 10: Social Segregation and Social Polarization
Chapter 11: Race Relations in the City
Chapter 12: Communities in the City
Chapter 13: Women, Men, Cities
Chapter 14: Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe: A Comparison
Part IV: The City as Economy

Introduction
Chapter 15: Urban Scale Economies
Chapter 16: Cities in the Global Economy
Chapter 17: The Post-Fordist City
Chapter 18: The Post-Industrial City
Chapter 19: The New Urban Economies
Chapter 20: The Growth of Urban Informal Economies
Part V: The City as Organized Polity

Introduction
Chapter 21: Urban Governance
Chapter 22: Cities and Services: A Post-Welfarist Analysis
Chapter 23: Social Policy and the City
Part VI: Power and Policy Discourses in Postmodern Cities

Introduction
Chapter 24: Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism
Chapter 25: Planning, Power and Conflict
Chapter 26: Power, Discourses and City Trajectories
Part VII: Cities in Transition

Introduction
Chapter 27: Cities in Pacific Asia
Chapter 28: Post-Socialist Cities in Flux
Chapter 29: The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa: From Dependency to Marginality