Handbook of Urban Studies

Ronan Paddison is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. His research interests focus on the political processes driving urban change and, in particular, under what conditions local participation can contribute to the making of more inclusive and democratic cities. Recent projects have included the role of community participation in the installation of public art, and the limitations to public participation in the post-political city. He is Managing Editor of Urban Studies and of Space and Polity.

• Studying Cities - Ronan PaddisonPART ONE: IDENTIFYING THE CITYDefining the City - William H Frey and Zachary ZimmerUrban Ecology - Peter SaundersImpartial Maps - Hana Wirth-NesherReading and Writing CitiesPART TWO: THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENTThe Physical Form of Cities - J W R WhitehandA Historico-Geographical ApproachHousing in the Twentieth Century - Ray Forrest and Peter WilliamsTransport and the City - Tom HartManaging Sustainable Urban Environments - Robert Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter NijkampPART THREE: THE CITY AS PEOPLEUrbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization - Tony ChampionSocial Segregation and Social Polarization - Chris HamnettRace Relations in the City - Joe T DardenCommunities in the City - Ronan PaddisonWomen, Men, Cities - Linda M McDowellUrban Crime in the USA and Western Europe - Paula D McClainA ComparisonPART FOUR: THE CITY AS ECONOMYUrban Scale Economies - J Vernon HendersonCities in the Global Economy - Saskia SassenThe Post-Fordist City - W F LeverThe Post-Industrial City - Doug V Shaw The New Urban Economies - Donald McNeill and Aidan WhileThe Growth of Urban Informal Economies - Colin C Williams and Jan WindebankPART FIVE: THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITYUrban Governance - Michael GoldsmithCities and Services - Stephen J BaileyA Post-Welfarist AnalysisSocial Policy and the City - Susanne MacGregorPART SIX: POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism - Louis Albrechts and William DenayerPlanning, Power and Conflict - James SimmiePower, Discourse and City Trajectories - Mark Boyle and Robert J RogersonPART SEVEN: CITIES IN TRANSITIONCities in Pacific Asia - David W SmithPost-Socialist Cities in Flux - Grigoriy KostinskiyThe Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa - Richard Stren and Mohamed HalfaniFrom Dependency to Marginality