List of Figures. List of Tables List of Contributors. Preface. 1 Introduction: Understanding the City: John Eade (University of Surrey Roehampton, UK) and Christopher Mele (University of Buffalo, USA). Part I: A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice and the City: 2. Rescripting Cities with Difference: Ruth Fincher (University of Melbourne, Australia), Jane M. Jacobs (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Kay Anderson (University of Durham, UK). 3.

The Public City: Sophie Watson (University of East London, UK). 4. Social Justice and the South African City: David M. Smith (University of London, UK). 5. Changing Views on Urban Violence: Sophie Body-Gendrot (The Sorbonne, France). Part II: The Global and Local, the Information Age and American Metropolitan Development: 6. Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global: Michael Peter Smith (University of California at Davis and University of California at Berekeley, USA).

7. From Neo-Marxism to the Third Way: Manuel Castells and the "Information Age": Peter Marcuse (Columbia University, USA). 8. Urban Analysis as Merchandising: the "LA School" and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development: Mark Gottdiener (University of Buffalo, USA). Part III: Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe: 9. State Socialism, Post-Socialism and Their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience: Chris Pickvance (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK). 10. The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism: Dorothy J.

Solinger (University of California at Irvine) and Kam Wing Chan (University of Washington, USA). 11. High Speed Growth and Urban Development in East and Southeast Asia: Jerry Eades (Ritusmeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan and University of Kent, UK). Part IV: Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East : 12. Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore: Smriti Srinivas (Ohio State University, USA). 13. The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture and Power: Shlomo Hasson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel). 14.

Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts and Social Movements: Paul Lubeck (University of California at Santa Cruz) and Bryana Britts (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA). Part V: Urban Processes and City Contexts: The USA: 15. The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation and Urban Development: Michael Indergaard (St. John's University, USA). 16. Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy and Public Space: Alexander J. Reichl (City University of New York, USA). 17.

Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies: Leonard Nevarez (Vassar College, USA). 18. Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites and Redevelopment in Hollywood: Jan Lin (Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA). Index.