Jonathan S. Davies is Reader in Public Policy at the University of Warwick and the author of Partnerships and Regimes: The Politics of Urban Regeneration in the UK. David L. Imbroscio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville and the author of Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy. Together they coedited Theories of Urban Politics, Second Edition.

"…this volume demonstrates that urban studies is not a stagnant discipline. Rather, the authors excelled at challenging a number of different orthodoxies to rethink approaches to and about mainstream politics and policies … all researchers involved in urban issues of a wide range of disciplines will find this book of use." — Journal of Planning Education and Research"The essays in Critical Urban Studies advance the enterprise of critical urban studies. They challenge a wide range of prevalent orthodoxies and illuminate several new directions on which subsequent critical scholarship and practice can build … The inventive essays will inspire future urban scholars and activists to further advance the theory and practice of critique in even deeper and more transformative directions." — SirReadALot.org

• ForewordClarence N. StoneAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJonathan S. Davies and David L. ImbroscioPART I: Critical Urban Theory 1. √CityElvin Wyly2. Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist, Interpretive Analysis of Urban PoliticsMara S. Sidney3. Seeing like a City: How to Urbanize Political ScienceWarren Magnusson4. Refl ections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a Critical EpistemologyJulie-Anne Boudreau5. Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban PoliticsJonathan S. Davies6. Keeping it Critical: Resisting the Allure of the MainstreamDavid L. ImbroscioPART II: Critical Urban Policy 7. The Trouble with DiversityJeff Spinner-Halev8. Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality?Yasminah Beebeejaun9. Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods?James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser10. Dispersal as Anti-Poverty PolicyEdward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple11. Beyond Sprawl and Anti-SprawlThad WilliamsonBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Jonathan S. Davies is Reader in Public Policy at the University of Warwick and the author of Partnerships and Regimes: The Politics of Urban Regeneration in the UK. David L. Imbroscio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville and the author of Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy. Together they coedited Theories of Urban Politics, Second Edition.

"…this volume demonstrates that urban studies is not a stagnant discipline. Rather, the authors excelled at challenging a number of different orthodoxies to rethink approaches to and about mainstream politics and policies … all researchers involved in urban issues of a wide range of disciplines will find this book of use." — Journal of Planning Education and Research"The essays in Critical Urban Studies advance the enterprise of critical urban studies. They challenge a wide range of prevalent orthodoxies and illuminate several new directions on which subsequent critical scholarship and practice can build … The inventive essays will inspire future urban scholars and activists to further advance the theory and practice of critique in even deeper and more transformative directions." — SirReadALot.org

• ForewordClarence N. StoneAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJonathan S. Davies and David L. ImbroscioPART I: Critical Urban Theory 1. √CityElvin Wyly2. Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist, Interpretive Analysis of Urban PoliticsMara S. Sidney3. Seeing like a City: How to Urbanize Political ScienceWarren Magnusson4. Refl ections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a Critical EpistemologyJulie-Anne Boudreau5. Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban PoliticsJonathan S. Davies6. Keeping it Critical: Resisting the Allure of the MainstreamDavid L. ImbroscioPART II: Critical Urban Policy 7. The Trouble with DiversityJeff Spinner-Halev8. Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality?Yasminah Beebeejaun9. Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods?James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser10. Dispersal as Anti-Poverty PolicyEdward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple11. Beyond Sprawl and Anti-SprawlThad WilliamsonBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Jonathan S. Davies is Reader in Public Policy at the University of Warwick and the author of Partnerships and Regimes: The Politics of Urban Regeneration in the UK. David L. Imbroscio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville and the author of Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy. Together they coedited Theories of Urban Politics, Second Edition.

"…this volume demonstrates that urban studies is not a stagnant discipline. Rather, the authors excelled at challenging a number of different orthodoxies to rethink approaches to and about mainstream politics and policies … all researchers involved in urban issues of a wide range of disciplines will find this book of use." — Journal of Planning Education and Research"The essays in Critical Urban Studies advance the enterprise of critical urban studies. They challenge a wide range of prevalent orthodoxies and illuminate several new directions on which subsequent critical scholarship and practice can build … The inventive essays will inspire future urban scholars and activists to further advance the theory and practice of critique in even deeper and more transformative directions." — SirReadALot.org

• ForewordClarence N. StoneAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJonathan S. Davies and David L. ImbroscioPART I: Critical Urban Theory 1. √CityElvin Wyly2. Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist, Interpretive Analysis of Urban PoliticsMara S. Sidney3. Seeing like a City: How to Urbanize Political ScienceWarren Magnusson4. Refl ections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a Critical EpistemologyJulie-Anne Boudreau5. Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban PoliticsJonathan S. Davies6. Keeping it Critical: Resisting the Allure of the MainstreamDavid L. ImbroscioPART II: Critical Urban Policy 7. The Trouble with DiversityJeff Spinner-Halev8. Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality?Yasminah Beebeejaun9. Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods?James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser10. Dispersal as Anti-Poverty PolicyEdward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple11. Beyond Sprawl and Anti-SprawlThad WilliamsonBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex