Table Of Contents:

List of Contributors x
Preface xiii

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson
Acknowledgments xv

Part I City Materialities 1(154)

1 Reflections on Materialities 3(12)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15(11)

Nik Theodore

Jamie Peck

Neil Brenner

3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26(12)

John Rennie Short

4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 38(10)

Susan S. Fainstein

Ian Gordon

Michael Harloe

5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48(9)

Amrita Shah

6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 57(9)

Matthew Gandy

7 Objects and the City 66(13)

Harvey Molotch

8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 79(17)

Jane M. Jacobs

Stephen Cairns

9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 96(12)

Maria Kaika

Erik Swyngedouw

10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108(13)

Peter Droege

11 The New Military Urbanism 121(13)

Stephen Graham

12 The City's New "Trinity" in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134(8)

Wang Xiaoming

Tyler Rooker

13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142(13)

Ray Forrest

Part II City Mobilities 155(120)

14 Reflections on Mobilities 157(12)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

15 "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding": The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 169(10)

Andrew Ross

16 Transnationality and the City 179(14)

Nina Glick Schiller

17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193(17)

Tyler Rooker

18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 210(11)

Saskia Sassen

19 Nomadic Cities 221(14)

David Finder

20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 235(10)

Francis Dodsworth

21 Disease and Infection in the City 245(10)

Simon Carter

22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space 255(10)

Daniel J. Walkowitz

23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 265(10)

Brian Ladd

Part III City Affect 275(102)

24 Reflections on Affect 277(11)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City 288(16)

Steve Pile

26 The Future of New York's Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 304(13)

Max Page

27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China 317(10)

Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai's Cinematic Hong Kong 327(10)

Christoph Lindner

29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 337(10)

Lesley Caldwell

30 City Life and the Senses 347(10)

John Urry

31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies 357(10)

Abdou Maliq Simone

32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces 367(10)

Andrew Hill

Part IV City Publics and Cultures 377(122)

33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures 379(11)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

34 Reflections on the Public Realm 390(8)

Richard Sennett

35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? 398(9)

Michael Keith

36 "Just Diversity" in the City of Difference 407(12)

Kurt Iveson

Ruth Fincher

37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 419(12)

Judith R. Walkowitz

38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s 431(11)

Frank Mort

39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 442(10)

Rob Stone

40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore 452(11)

Lily Kong

41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City 463(13)

Setha Low

42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith 476(12)

John Paul Jones III

43 Walking and Performing "the City": A Melbourne Chronicle 488(11)

Benjamin Rossiter

Katherine Gibson

Part V City Divisions and Differences 499(118)

44 Reflections on Division and Difference 501(10)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 511(10)

Mike Savage

46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities 521(11)

Jenny Robinson

Sue Parnell

47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City 532(15)

Jeremy Seekings

48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary 547(14)

Ato Quayson

49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance 561(10)

Sharon Zukin

50 Gentrification of the City 571(15)

Tom Slater

51 The Homosexuality of Cities 586(10)

Julie Abraham

52 Gendering Urban Space 596(10)

Jessica Ellen Sewell

53 Nights in the Global City 606(11)

Sophie Body-Gendrot

Part VI City Politics and Planning 617(142)

54 Reflections on Politics and Planning 619(12)

Gary Bridge

Sophie Watson

55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 631(12)

Ash Amin

56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 643(13)

Peter Marcuse

57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below 656(11)

Anthony Vidler

58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens 667(12)

Evelyn S. Ruppert

59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 679(11)

Edward W. Soja

60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China's Cities 690(11)

John Friedmann

61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China's Urbanism in the Making 701(12)

Fulong Wu

61 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City 713(13)

Roger Keil

63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies 726(12)

Kevin Ward

64 Making Up Global Urban Policies 738(9)

Allan Cochrane

65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed? 747(12)

Patrick Le Gales
Index 759