The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research.
Featuring many of the top international names in the field, the handbook is divided into nine key sections:
SECTION 1: THE GLOBALIZED CITY
SECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE
SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE
SECTION 4: SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITY
SECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES
SECTION 6: CREATIVE CITIES
SECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES
SECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY
SECTION 9: URBAN FUTURES
This is a central resource for researchers and students of Sociology, Cultural Geography and Urban Studies.
Chapter 1: Introduction - John Hannigan and Greg Richards
SECTION 1: THE GLOBALIZED CITY
Chapter 2: Locating Transnational Urban Connections Beyond World City Networks - Tim Bunnell
Chapter 3: Frontier financial cities - Adam D. Dixon
Chapter 4: Eventful cities: Strategies for event-based urban development - Greg Richards
SECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE
Chapter 5: Twin cities: territorial and relational urbanism - Mark Jayne, Phil Hubbard and David Bell
Chapter 6: Idealizing the European City in a Neoliberal Age - Philip Lawton
Chapter 7: City branding as a governance strategy - Jasper Eshuis and Erik-Hans Klijn
SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE
Chapter 8: Territorial Stigmatization: Symbolic Defamation and the Contemporary Metropolis - Tom Slater
Chapter 9: The liminal city: Gender, mobility and governance in a twenty-first century African city - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
Chapter 10: Constructing and contesting resilience in post-disaster urban communities - Kevin Fox Gotham and Bradford Powers
SECTION 4: SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITY
Chapter 11: Emerging geographies of suburban disadvantage - Bill Randolph
Chapter 12: The climate change challenge and the urban environment: collective action issues in the suburbs - Ian Smith
Chapter 13: Social construction of smart growth policies and strategies - John Hannigan
SECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES
Chapter 14: The global art city - Can Seng Ooi
Chapter 15: Lights, city, action... - Tim Edensor
Chapter 16: On urban (in)visibilities - Ricardo Campos
Chapter 17: Events as creative district generators? Beyond the conventional wisdom - Pier Luigi Sacco
Chapter 18: Mega Events in emerging nations and the festivalisation of the urban backstage. The cases of Brazil and South Africa - Christoph Haferburg and Malte Steinbrink
SECTION 6: CREATIVE CITIES
Chapter 19: Urban social movements and the night: Struggling for the 'right to the creative (party) city' in Geneva - Robert Hollands, Marie-Avril Berthet, Eva Nada and Virginia Bjertnes
Chapter 20: Creative Cities - an international perspective - Graeme Evans
Chapter 21: Moving to Meet and Make: Rethinking Creativity in Making Things Take Place - Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt
Chapter 22: Creative clusters in urban spaces - Lénia Marques
Chapter 23: Rebalancing the Creative City after 20 years of debate - Nienke van Boom
SECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES
Chapter 24: Urbanization and Housing in Africa - Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables
Chapter 25: Differentiated residential orientations of class fractions - Willem Boterman and Sako Musterd
Chapter 26: Some scenes of urban life - Dan Silver
Chapter 27: Urban foodscapes: Repositioning food in urban studies through the case of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - Christiana Miewald, Daniela Aiello and Eugene McCann
SECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY
Chapter 28: African ideas of the urban - Garth Myers
Chapter 29: New Frontiers in researching Chinese cities - Shenjing He and Junxi Qian
Chapter 30: Informal settlement and assemblage theory - Kim Dovey
SECTION 9: URBAN FUTURES
Chapter 31: The changing urban future: The views of the media and academics - Clovis Ultramari and Fabio Duarte
Chapter 32: Olympic Futures and Urban Imaginings: from Albertopolis to Olympicopolis - John Gold and Margaret Gold
Chapter 33: Experiencing the Hybrid City: The role of digital technology in public urban places - Anna Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Hannu Kukka and Timo Ojala
Chapter 34: The New Urban World: Challenges and Policy with Respect to Shrinking Cities - Sujata Shetty and Neil Reid
