Andrew E.G. Jonas holds a Chair in Human Geography at the University of Hull in the UK. His co-edited books include The Urban Growth Machine; Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later (1999, with David Wilson), Interrogating Alterity (2010, with Duncan Fuller and Roger Lee), and Territory, the State and Urban Politics (2012, with Andy Wood). He serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and Territory Politics and Governance.Eugene McCann is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is co-editor, with Kevin Ward, of Mobile Urbanism: Cities & Policymaking in the Global Age (2011) and, with Ronan Paddison, Cities & Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism (2014).Mary Thomas is Associate Professor in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the author of Multicultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education (2011), and co-editor of A Companion to Social Geography (2011).

“I like this book for the above points. The authors have succeeded to stir thoughts about urbanization and to appreciate urban geography from an alternative perspective. This book would be particularly helpful to students and those involved in urbanization processes, including businesses.”  (3D Visualization World Magazine, 24 June 2015)

• List of Figures viiList of Tables xiList of Boxes xiiAcknowledgments xivPreface xvi1 Approaching the City 12 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography 273 Production, Economy, and the City 534 A World of Cities 775 Labor and the City 1006 The City and Social Reproduction 1227 Governing the City: The State, Urban Planning, and Politics 1418 Experiencing Cities 1629 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City 18410 Nature and Environment in the City 20611 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures 22912 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics 25213 Urban Crises 27414 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures 299Glossary 307References 325Index 347