The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction - John Hannigan and Greg Richards
• PART I THE GLOBALIZED CITY
• Preface: The Globalized City
• 2 Locating Transnational Urban Connections Beyond World City Networks - Tim Bunnell
• 3 Frontier Financial Cities - Adam D. Dixon
• 4 Eventful Cities: Strategies for Event-Based Urban Development - Greg Richards
• PART II URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCE
• Preface: Urban Entrepreneurialism, Branding, Governance
• 5 Twin Cities: Territorial and Relational Urbanism - Mark Jayne, Phil Hubbard and David Bell
• 6 Idealizing the European City in a Neoliberal Age - Philip Lawton
• 7 City Branding as a Governance Strategy - Jasper Eshuis and Erik-Hans Klijn
• PART III MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCE
• Preface: Marginality, Risk and Resilience
• 8 Territorial Stigmatization: Symbolic Defamation and the Contemporary Metropolis - Tom Slater
• 9 The Liminal City: Gender, Mobility and Governance in a Twenty-First Century African City - Caroline Wanjiku Kihato
• 10 Constructing and Contesting Resilience in Post-Disaster Urban Communities - Kevin Fox Gotham and Bradford Powers
• PART IV SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, AND SUSTAINABILITY
• Preface: Suburbs and Suburbanization - Stratification, Sprawl, and Sustainability
• 11 Emergiing Geographies of Suburban Disadvantage - Bill Randolph
• 12 The Climate Change Challenge - Ian Smith
• 13 Social Construction of Smart Growth Policies and Strategies - John Hannigan
• PART V DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIES
• Preface: Distinctive and Visible Cities
• 14 The Global Art City - Can-Seng Ooi
• 15 Lights, City, Action… - Tim Edensor
• 16 On Urban (In)Visibilities - Ricardo Campos
• 17 Events as Creative District Generators? Beyond the Conventional Wisdom - Pier Luigi Sacco
• 18 Mega-Events in Emerging Nations and the Festivalization of the Urban Backstage: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa - Christoph Haferburg and Malte Steinbrink
• PART VI CREATIVE CITIES
• Preface: Creative Cities
• 19 Urban Cultural Movements and the Night: Struggling for the ‘Right to the Creative (Party) City’ in Geneva - Robert Hollands, Marie-Avril Berthet, Eva Nada and Virginia Bjertnes
• 20 Creative Cities – An International Perspective - Graeme Evans
• 21 Moving to Meet and Make: Rethinking Creativity in Making Things Take Place - Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt
• 22 Creative Clusters in Urban Spaces - Lénia Marques
• 23 Rebalancing the Creative City After 20 Years of Debate - Nienke van Boom
• PART VII URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLES
• Preface: Urbanization, Urbanity, and Urban Lifestyles
• 24 Urbanization and Housing in Africa - Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables
• 25 Differentiated Residential Orientations of Class Fractions - Willem Boterman and Sako Musterd
• 26 Some Scenes of Urban Life - Daniel Silver
• 27 Urban Foodscapes: Repositioning Food in Urban Studies Through the Case of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - Christiana Miewald, Daniela Aiello and Eugene McCann
• PART VIII NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORY
• Preface: New Directions in Urban Theory
• 28 African Ideas of the Urban - Garth Myers
• 29 New Frontiers in Researching Chinese Cities - Shenjing He and Junxi Qian
• 30 Informal Settlement and Assemblage Theory - Kim Dovey
• PART IX URBAN FUTURES
• Preface: Urban Futures
• 31 The Changing Urban Future: The Views of the Media and Academics - Clovis Ultramari and Fábio Duarte
• 32 Olympic Futures and Urban Imaginings: From Albertopolis to Olympicopolis - John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold
• 33 Experiencing the Hybrid City: The Role of Digital Technology in Public Urban Places - Anna Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Hannu Kukka and Timo Ojala
• 34 The New Urban World: Challenges and Policy with Respect to Shrinking Cities - Sujata Shetty and Neil Reid