Key Concepts in Urban Studies is an essential companion for students of urban studies, urban sociology, urban politics, urban planning and urban development.

Table of Contents

• About the Authors
• Acknowledgements
• Preface to the Second Edition
• The Chicago School
• The City
• The City and Beyond
• Classifications and Definitions of Places
• Community Development Programs
• Cultures and Lifestyles
• De-Territorialization and Re-Territorialization
• Financial and Fiscal Crises
• Gendered Spaces
• Gentrification and Urban Redevelopment
• Global Cities and Regionalization
• Globalization and Meltdown
• Housing
• Immigration, Migration and Demography
• Inequality and Poverty
• The Informal Economy
• Models of Urban Growth
• Modern Urban Planning
• Multi-Centered Metropolitan Regions
• Neighborhood
• Nightscapes and Urban Escapades
• Planning and Public Space
• Preservation and Conservation
• The Primate City
• Real Estate
• Segregation and Hypersegregation
• Slums and Shanty Towns
• Social Production of Space
• Sprawl
• Suburbs and Suburbanization
• Sustainable Urbanization
• Temporary Uses and Adaptive Urbanism
• Urban and Suburban Politics
• Urban Violence and Crime
• Urbanization and Urbanism