Ronan Paddison 
Handbook of Urban Studies [PDF ebook] 

The
Handbook of Urban Studies provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date account of the urban condition, relevant to a wide readership from academics to researchers and policymakers. It provides a theoretically and empirically informed account embracing all the different disciplines contributing to urban studies.

Leading authors identify key issues and questions and future trends for further research and present their findings so that, where appropriate, they are relevant to the needs of policymakers. Using the city as a unifying structure, the Handbook provides an holistic appreciation of urban structure and change, and of the theories by which we understand the structure, development and changing character of cities.

Cuprins

Studying Cities – Ronan Paddison

PART ONE: IDENTIFYING THE CITY

Defining the City – William H Frey and Zachary Zimmer

Urban Ecology – Peter Saunders

Impartial Maps – Hana Wirth-Nesher

Reading and Writing Cities

PART TWO: THE CITY AS ENVIRONMENT

The Physical Form of Cities – J W R Whitehand

A Historico-Geographical Approach

Housing in the Twentieth Century – Ray Forrest and Peter Williams

Transport and the City – Tom Hart

Managing Sustainable Urban Environments – Robert Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp

PART THREE: THE CITY AS PEOPLE

Urbanization, Suburbanization, Counterurbanization and Reurbanization – Tony Champion

Social Segregation and Social Polarization – Chris Hamnett

Race Relations in the City – Joe T Darden

Communities in the City – Ronan Paddison

Women, Men, Cities – Linda M Mc Dowell

Urban Crime in the USA and Western Europe – Paula D Mc Clain

A Comparison

PART FOUR: THE CITY AS ECONOMY

Urban Scale Economies – J Vernon Henderson

Cities in the Global Economy – Saskia Sassen

The Post-Fordist City – W F Lever

The Post-Industrial City – Doug V Shaw

The New Urban Economies – Donald Mc Neill and Aidan While

The Growth of Urban Informal Economies – Colin C Williams and Jan Windebank

PART FIVE: THE CITY AS ORGANIZED POLITY

Urban Governance – Michael Goldsmith

Cities and Services – Stephen J Bailey

A Post-Welfarist Analysis

Social Policy and the City – Susanne Mac Gregor

PART SIX: POWER AND POLICY DISCOURSES IN POSTMODERN CITIES

Communicative Planning, Emancipatory Politics and Postmodernism – Louis Albrechts and William Denayer

Planning, Power and Conflict – James Simmie

Power, Discourse and City Trajectories – Mark Boyle and Robert J Rogerson

PART SEVEN: CITIES IN TRANSITION

Cities in Pacific Asia – David W Smith

Post-Socialist Cities in Flux – Grigoriy Kostinskiy

The Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa – Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani

From Dependency to Marginality

Despre autor

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.