TY - BOOK AU - Ronan Paddison TI - Handbook of Urban Studies SN - 9781848608375 PY - 2009/// CY - New York: PB - SAGE N1 - 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 UR - http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/hdbk_urban ER -