Companion to Urban and Regional Studies

Anthony M. Orum is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, USA, and Editor-in-Chief of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. His work has covered a variety of topics, including the growth and development of American cities and the social psychological roots of politics, voting, and political participation in the United States.Javier Ruiz-Tagle is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He specializes in topics of residential segregation, housing policies, neighborhood effects, urban marginality, and comparative studies.Serena Vicari Haddock is Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and is a member of the European Spatial Development and Planning (ESDP) network. Her primary research interests are urban development and regeneration policies and governance in Italian cities.

• Notes on Contributors viiiPreface xxiIntroduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century xxivJavier Ruiz-Tagle, Anthony Orum, and Serena Vicari HaddockPart I Cities Across World Regions 11 Cities and Regions in South Asia 3Tanvi Bhatikar and Neha Sami2 Making Cities and Regions in Globalising East Asia 21Junxi Qian, Jia Ling, and Shenjing He3 Latin American Cities and Regions 43Guillermo Jajamovich, Oscar Sosa López, and Gabriel Silvestre4 Cities and Regions in Sub-Saharan Africa 64Warren Smit5 Australasian Cities: Urban Change Across Australia and New Zealand 85Kristian Ruming and Tom Baker6 European Cities Between Continuity and Change 109Yuri Kazepov, Roberta Cucca, Byeongsun Ahn, and Christophe Verrier7 The North American City 135Jon TeafordPart II Leading Theoretical Perspectives and Approaches 1538 New Directions in Frankfurt Critical Theory for Critical Urban Theory 155Tino Buchholz9 Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago 176Pranathi Diwakar and Joshua Babcock10 Environmental Perspectives on Cities 196Maria Christina Fragkou and Anahí Urquiza11 Feminist Urban Research: Praxis and Possibility Across Time and Space 218Brenda ParkerPart III Methodological Approaches 23712 A Critical-Empirical Approach to the Use of Demographic Methods and Sources in Urban Studies 239Ricardo Truffello, Fernanda Rojas Marchini, and Monica Flores13 GIS in Urban Studies: A Tool of Expert Analysis, Practical Application, and Citizens’ Participation 265Inga Gryl, Ana Parraguez Sanchez, and Thomas Jekel14 Urban Ethnography 282Margarethe Kusenbach and Japonica Brown-Saracino15 Cities and Networks 311Kathryn Freeman Anderson and Zachary P. Neal16 Policy Mobilities: How Localities Assemble, Mobilise, and Adopt Circulated Forms of Knowledge 329Astrid WoodPart IV Social Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 34917 Social Heterogeneity and Diversity 351Ayda Eraydin18 Inequalities and the City: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class 373David Benassi, Andrea Ciarini, and Enzo Mingione19 The Role of Residential Context and Public Policies in the Production of Urban Inequalities 398María Mercedes Di Virgilio20 Immigration and Immigrants in European Countries 420Moshe Semyonov and Rebeca Raijman21 Migration and Migrants in Post-reform Chinese Cities 450Da Liu and Zhigang Li22 Migration and Migrants in the United States: The Case for a Fifth Immigration Phase 475Christopher Levesque and Jack DeWaard23 Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification: Nexuses 497Sandra Annunziata, Loretta Lees, and Clara Rivas AlonsoPart V Political and Economic Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 51724 Urban Citizenship and Governance 519Annika Hinze25 Policies and Policy Approaches in Cities 539Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García Cabeza26 Financialisation and Real Estate 562Anne Haila27 Housing in the Global North and the Global South 579Darinka Czischke and Alonso AyalaPart VI Closure 60528 Conclusions 607Anthony Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, and Serena Vicari HaddockIndex 613