Revisiting urban theory -- Theorizing the city / Dennis R. Judd -- Grounded theory : not abstract words but tools of analysis / Janet Abu-Lughod -- The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess : same city, different visions / Daphne Spain -- The view from Los Angeles -- Urban politics and the Los Angeles school of urbanism / Michael Dear and Nicholas Dahmann -- The sun also rises in the west / Amy Bridges -- From the Chicago to the L.A. school : whither the local state? / Steven P. Erie and Scott A. MacKenzie -- The view from New York -- The rise and decline of the L.A. and New York schools / David Halle and Andrew A. Beveridge -- School is out : the case of New York City / John Hull Mollenkopf -- Radical uniqueness and the flight from urban theory / Robert A. Beauregard -- The view from Chicago -- The new Chicago school of urbanism and the new Daley machine / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly -- The new Chicago school : notes toward a theory / Terry Nichols Clark -- The mayor among his peers : interpreting Richard M. Daley / Larry Bennett -- Both center and periphery : Chicago's metropolitan expansion and the new downtowns / Costas Spirou -- The utility of U.S. urban theory -- The city and its politics : informal and contested / Frank Gaffikin, David C. Perry, and Ratoola Kundu -- Understanding deep urban change : patterns of residential segregation in Latin American cities / Francisco Sabatini and Rodrigo Salcedo -- Studying twenty-first century cities / Dick Simpson and Tom Kelly.