Studying cities / Ronan Paddison -- Defining the city / William H. Frey and Zacharay Zimmer -- Urban ecology / Peter Saunders -- Impartial maps: reading and writing cities / Hana Wirth-Nesher -- The physical form of cities: a historico-geographical approach / J.W.R. Whitehand -- Housing in the twentieth century / Ray Forrest and Peter Williams -- Transport and the city / Tom Hart -- Managing sustainable urban environments / Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello and Peter Nijkamp -- 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. McDowell -- Urban crime in the USA and western Europe: a comparison / Paula D. McClain -- Urban scale economies / J. Vernon Henderson -- Cities in the global economy / Saskia Sassen -- The post-fordist city / W.F. Lever -- The post-industrial city / Douglas V. Shaw -- The new urban economies / Donald McNeill and Aidan While -- The growth of urban informal economies / Colin C. Williams and Jan Windebank -- Urban governance / Michael Goldsmith --Cities and services: a post-welfarist analysis / Stephen J. Bailey -- Social policy and the city / Susanne MacGregor -- Communicative planning, emancipatory politics and postmodernism / Louis Albrechts and William Denayer -- Planning, power and conflict / James Simmie -- Power, discourses and city trajectories / Mark Boyle and Robert J. Rogerson -- Cities in Pacific Asia / David W. Smith -- Post-socialist cities in flux / Grigoriy Kostinskiy -- The cities of sub-Saharan Africa: from dependency to marginality / Richard Stren and Mohamed Halfani.