DAVID BYRNE is Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham. He has worked both as an academic and in community research and his main intellectual interest is in the development of complexity theory as a method of understanding the social world in order to change it.

• IntroductionThe City at the Beginning of a New MillenniumThe Genesis and the Implications of the Postindustrial CityLocality and Community: the Significance of PlaceGrounding the Global: Cities in a World SystemThe Divided City: the Ecology of Postindustrial PlacesCulture and the Urban: Commodity, Understanding and ResourceThe Production and Reproduction of the Built EnvironmentPolitics and Governance in Urban PlacesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Well-argued and written in an accessible style, Understanding the Urban would be a useable undergraduate text in urban studies, sociology, human geography, and other disciplines.' - Contemporary Sociology This volume brings together interesting reflexive arguments on how analysts come to know and act on the city.' - Choice

DAVID BYRNE is Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham. He has worked both as an academic and in community research and his main intellectual interest is in the development of complexity theory as a method of understanding the social world in order to change it.

• IntroductionThe City at the Beginning of a New MillenniumThe Genesis and the Implications of the Postindustrial CityLocality and Community: the Significance of PlaceGrounding the Global: Cities in a World SystemThe Divided City: the Ecology of Postindustrial PlacesCulture and the Urban: Commodity, Understanding and ResourceThe Production and Reproduction of the Built EnvironmentPolitics and Governance in Urban PlacesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Well-argued and written in an accessible style, Understanding the Urban would be a useable undergraduate text in urban studies, sociology, human geography, and other disciplines.' - Contemporary Sociology This volume brings together interesting reflexive arguments on how analysts come to know and act on the city.' - Choice

DAVID BYRNE is Reader in Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham. He has worked both as an academic and in community research and his main intellectual interest is in the development of complexity theory as a method of understanding the social world in order to change it.

• IntroductionThe City at the Beginning of a New MillenniumThe Genesis and the Implications of the Postindustrial CityLocality and Community: the Significance of PlaceGrounding the Global: Cities in a World SystemThe Divided City: the Ecology of Postindustrial PlacesCulture and the Urban: Commodity, Understanding and ResourceThe Production and Reproduction of the Built EnvironmentPolitics and Governance in Urban PlacesConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex.

Well-argued and written in an accessible style, Understanding the Urban would be a useable undergraduate text in urban studies, sociology, human geography, and other disciplines.' - Contemporary Sociology This volume brings together interesting reflexive arguments on how analysts come to know and act on the city.' - Choice