Key concepts in urban studies

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

Preface to the Second Edition

The Chicago School

The City

The City and beyond

Classifications and definitions of places

Community development programs

Cultures and lifestyles

De-territorialization and re-territorialization

Financial and fiscal crises

Gendered spaces

Gentrification and urban redevelopment

Global cities and regionalization

Globalization and meltdown

Housing

Immigration, migration and demography

Inequality and poverty

The informal economy

Models of urban growth

Modern urban planning

Multi-centered metropolitan regions

Neighborhood

Nightscapes and urban escapades

Planning and public space

Preservation and conservation

The primate city

Real estate

Segregation and hypersegregation

Slums and shanty towns

Social production of space

Sprawl

Suburbs and suburbanization

Sustainable urbanization

Temporary uses and adaptive urbanism

Urban and suburban politics

Urban violence and crime

Urbanization and urbanism.