Companion to Urban and Regional Studies

Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies

Companion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies.

Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic problems facing twenty-first century cities. Covering historical issues, current challenges, and comparative perspectives in urban studies, this timely resource:

• Addresses intensely debated policy issues such as governance, housing, immigration and migration, segregation, social mix, and gentrification
• Describes the use of demographic methods, advanced spatial analysis, social networks, policy mobilities, and ethnographies in urban studies research
• Discusses critical urban theory, feminist urban research, urbanization and environmental change, and the legacy of the Chicago School
• Covers contemporary research topics such as urban and regional inequalities, social heterogeneity and diversity, financialization
• Includes representative case studies of each region, including Australasia, Latin America, East Asia and South Asia

Companion to Urban and Regional Studies is essential reading for scholars, researchers, practitioners, urban activists, and students, and it represents a must-have complement to The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.

Anthony M. Orum is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Illinois-Chicago, USA, and Editor-in-Chief of The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies. His work has covered a variety of topics, including the growth and development of American cities and the social psychological roots of politics, voting, and political participation in the United States.  

Javier Ruiz-Tagle is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Urban and Territorial Studies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He specializes in topics of residential segregation, housing policies, neighborhood effects, urban sociology, and comparative studies. 

Serena Vicari Haddock is Senior Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, and is a member of the European Spatial Development Planning (ESDP) network. Her primary research interests are urban development and regeneration policies and governance in Italian cities. 

Notes on Contributors viii

Preface xxi

Introduction: A World of Cities and Urban Problems in the Twenty-First Century xxiv
Javier Ruiz-Tagle, Anthony Orum, and Serena Vicari Haddock

Part I Cities Across World Regions 1

1 Cities and Regions in South Asia 3
Tanvi Bhatikar and Neha Sami

2 Making Cities and Regions in Globalising East Asia 21
Junxi Qian, Jia Ling, and Shenjing He

3 Latin American Cities and Regions 43
Guillermo Jajamovich, Oscar Sosa López, and Gabriel Silvestre

4 Cities and Regions in Sub-Saharan Africa 64
Warren Smit

5 Australasian Cities: Urban Change Across Australia and New Zealand 85
Kristian Ruming and Tom Baker

6 European Cities Between Continuity and Change 109
Yuri Kazepov, Roberta Cucca, Byeongsun Ahn, and Christophe Verrier

7 The North American City 135
Jon Teaford

Part II Leading Theoretical Perspectives and Approaches 153

8 New Directions in Frankfurt Critical Theory for Critical Urban Theory 155
Tino Buchholz

9 Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School: Lineage-Making and Interdisciplinary Urban Research at the University of Chicago 176
Pranathi Diwakar and Joshua Babcock

10 Environmental Perspectives on Cities 196
Maria Christina Fragkou and Anahí Urquiza

11 Feminist Urban Research: Praxis and Possibility Across Time and Space 218
Brenda Parker

Part III Methodological Approaches 237

12 A Critical-Empirical Approach to the Use of Demographic Methods and Sources in Urban Studies 239
Ricardo Truffello, Fernanda Rojas Marchini, and Monica Flores

13 GIS in Urban Studies: A Tool of Expert Analysis, Practical Application, and Citizens’ Participation 265
Inga Gryl, Ana Parraguez Sanchez, and Thomas Jekel

14 Urban Ethnography 282
Margarethe Kusenbach and Japonica Brown-Saracino

15 Cities and Networks 311
Kathryn Freeman Anderson and Zachary P. Neal

16 Policy Mobilities: How Localities Assemble, Mobilise, and Adopt Circulated Forms of Knowledge 329
Astrid Wood

Part IV Social Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 349

17 Social Heterogeneity and Diversity 351
Ayda Eraydin

18 Inequalities and the City: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class 373
David Benassi, Andrea Ciarini, and Enzo Mingione

19 The Role of Residential Context and Public Policies in the Production of Urban Inequalities 398
María Mercedes Di Virgilio

20 Immigration and Immigrants in European Countries 420
Moshe Semyonov and Rebeca Raijman

21 Migration and Migrants in Post-reform Chinese Cities 450
Da Liu and Zhigang Li

22 Migration and Migrants in the United States: The Case for a Fifth Immigration Phase 475
Christopher Levesque and Jack DeWaard

23 Segregation, Social Mix, and Gentrification: Nexuses 497
Sandra Annunziata, Loretta Lees, and Clara Rivas Alonso

Part V Political and Economic Problems In Twenty-First-Century Cities 517

24 Urban Citizenship and Governance 519
Annika Hinze

25 Policies and Policy Approaches in Cities 539
Marc Pradel-Miquel and Marisol García Cabeza

26 Financialisation and Real Estate 562
Anne Haila

27 Housing in the Global North and the Global South 579
Darinka Czischke and Alonso Ayala

Part VI Closure 605

28 Conclusions 607
Anthony Orum, Javier Ruiz-Tagle, and Serena Vicari Haddock

Index 613

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