Handbook of Urban Geography

Edited by Tim Schwanen, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK and the late Ronald van Kempen, formerly Utrecht University, the Netherlands

• Contents:PrefaceIntroduction to the Handbook of Urban GeographyTim SchwanenPART I URBAN THEORIES AND METHODS2. Worlding cities and comparative urbanismLaura Cesafsky and Kate Derickson3. Urban political ecologies of and in the cityJoshua J. Cousins and Joshua Newell4. Urban cosmopoliticsAnders Blok and Ignacio Farías5. Big data and the cityMatthew Zook, Taylor Shelton and Ate PoorthuisPART II URBAN NETWORKS6. Multiple geographies of global urban connectivity as measured in the interlocking network modelBen Derudder and Peter J. Taylor7. Inside mobile urbanism: cities and policy mobilitiesCristina Temenos, Tom Baker and Ian R. Cook8. Metropolitan mobilities: transnational urban labour marketsCathy McIlwaine and Megan Ryburn9. Refugee mobility across networks and citiesIlse Van Liempt and Francesco Vecchio10. Urban infrastructures: four tensions and their effectsTim Schwanen and Denver V. NixonPART III URBAN REDEVELOPMENT11. Emerging city regions: urban expansion, transformation and discursive constructionMarkus Hesse12. The cultural economy in citiesTom Hutton13. Urban regeneration through cultureJonathan Ward and Phil Hubbard14. Developing a critical understanding of smart urbanismAndrés Luque-Ayala and Simon Marvin15. Terrorism, risk and the quest for urban resilienceJon CoaffeePART IV URBAN INEQUALITIES16. Urban inequalityChris Hamnett17. Segregation: a multi–contextual and multi–faceted phenomenon in stratified societiesMasayoshi Oka and David W. S. Wong18. Neighbourhood effects on social outcomesSako Musterd, Roger Andersson and George Galster 19. Gentrification and displacement: urban inequality in cities of late capitalismAgustín Cocola-Gant20. Urban informatics and e-governanceBarney WarfPART V URBAN SOCIALITIES21. Sociality, materiality and the citySophie Watson22. Spaces of encounter: learning to live together in superdiverse citiesNick Schuermans23. Children’s geographies: encounters and experiencesPeter KraftlPART VI URBAN POLITICS24. Exploring insurgent urban mobilizations: from urban social movements to urban political movements?Lazaros Karaliotas and Erik Swyngedouw25. Urban governance: re-thinking top-down and bottom-up power relations in the wake of neo-liberalisationMike Raco and Sonia Freire-Trigo26. The right to the city: theoretical outline and reflections on migrants’ activism in post-reform urban ChinaJunxi Qian and Shenjing He27. Contextualizing neighbourhood activism: spatial solidarity in the cityKatherine B. Hankins and Deborah G. MartinPART VII URBAN SUSTAINABILITIES28. Urban sustainability transitionsJonathan Rutherford29. Eco-citiesRobert Cowley30. The governance of climate change in urban areasVanesa Castán BrotoIndex

‘The Handbook provides a comprehensive selection over the most important scholarly approaches and debates since the turn of the century. In a crowded field, the Handbook should be of value for both academics and students in the fields of human geography, urban studies, planning, or urban sociology.’