Cover -- Contents -- Part I. Revisiting Urban Theory -- 1. Theorizing the City -- 2. Grounded Theory: Not Abstract Words but Tools of Analysis -- 3. The Chicago of Jane Addams and Ernest Burgess: Same City, Different Visions -- Part II. The View from Los Angeles -- 4. Urban Politics and the Los Angeles School of Urbanism -- 5. The Sun Also Rises in the West -- 6. From the Chicago to the L.A. School: Whither the Local State? -- Part III. The View from New York -- 7. The Rise and Decline of the L.A. and New York Schools -- 8. School Is Out: The Case of New York City -- 9. Radical Uniqueness and the Flight from Urban Theory -- Part IV. The View from Chicago -- 10. The New Chicago School of Urbanism and the New Daley Machine -- 11. The New Chicago School: Notes toward a Theory -- 12. The Mayor among His Peers: Interpreting Richard M. Daley -- 13. Both Center and Periphery: Chicago's Metropolitan Expansion and the New Downtowns -- Part V. The Utility of U.S. Urban Theory -- 14. The City and Its Politics: Informal and Contested -- 15. Understanding Deep Urban Change: Patterns of Residential Segregation in Latin American Cities -- 16. Studying Twenty-first Century Cities -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.