Companion to Urban and Regional Studies

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COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies Companion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies. Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic problems facing twenty-first century cities. Covering historical issues, current challenges, and comparative perspectives in urban studies, this timely resource: Addresses intensely debated policy issues such as governance, housing, immigration and migration, segregation, social mix, and gentrificationDescribes the use of demographic methods, advanced spatial analysis, social networks, policy mobilities, and ethnographies in urban studies researchDiscusses critical urban theory, feminist urban research, urbanization and environmental change, and the legacy of the Chicago SchoolCovers contemporary research topics such as urban and regional inequalities, social heterogeneity and diversity, financializationIncludes representative case studies of each region, including Australasia, Latin America, East Asia and South Asia Companion to Urban and Regional Studies is essential reading for scholars, researchers, practitioners, urban activists, and students, and it represents a must-have complement to The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. Companion to Urban and Regional Studies Contents Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century PART I: CITIES ACROSS WORLD REGIONS 1. Cities and Regions in South Asia 2. Making Cities and Regions in Globalising East Asia 3. Latin American Cities and Regions 4. Cities and Regions in Sub-Saharan Africa 5. Australasian Cities: Urban Change Across Australia and New Zealand 6. European Cities Between Continuity and Change 7. The North American City PART II: LEADING THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND APPROACHES 8. New Directions in Frankfurt Critical Theory for Critical Urban Theory 9. Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago 10. Environmental Perspectives on Cities 11. Feminist Urban Research: Praxis and Possibility Across Time and Space PART III: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES 12. A Critical-Empirical Approach to the Use of Demographic Methods and Sources in Urban Studies 13. GIS in Urban Studies: A Tool of Expert Analysis, Practical Application, and Citizens’ Participation 14. Urban Ethnography 15. Cities and Networks 16. Policy Mobilities: How Localities Assemble, Mobilise, and Adopt Circulated Forms of Knowledge PART IV: SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CITIES 17. Social Heterogeneity and Diversity 18. Inequalities and the City: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class 19. The Role of Residential Context and Public Policies in the Production of Urban Inequalities 20. Immigration and Immigrants in European Countries 21. Migration and Migrants in Post-reform Chinese Cities 22. Migration and Migrants in the United States: The Case for a Fifth Immigration Phase 23. Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification: Nexuses PART V: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CITIES 24. Urban Citizenship and Governance 25. Policies and Policy Approaches in Cities 26. Financialisation and Real Estate 27. Housing in the Global North and the Global South PART VI: CLOSURE 28. Conclusions Index EULA