This reader captures the diversity of scholarship in the field of urban geography by presenting a stimulating selection of articles and excerpts by leading figures, organized around seven themes. The themes address the changing economic, social, cultural, and technological conditions of contemporary urbanization and the range of personal and public responses. Bringing together in one volume 'classic' and contemporary pieces of urban geography, studies undertaken in the developed and developing worlds, and examples of theoretical and applied research, the reader provides an unparalleled resource for those studying the complex geographies of urban areas.

Foundations

1. Edward Burgess (1924) The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project
2. Homer Hoyt (1939) The Structure and Growth of Residential Neighborhoods in American Cities
3. Edward Ullman (1941) A Theory of Location for Cities
4. Chauncey Harris & E. Ullman (1945) The Nature of Cities

Globalization & Transnationalism

5. Christopher Hamnett (1994) Social Polarization in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence
6. D. Simon (1995) The World City Hypothesis: Reflections from the Periphery
7. Jan Nijman (1999) Cultural Globalization and the Identity of Place: The Reconstruction of Amsterdam
8. Beaverstock et al (2000) World-City Network: A New Metageography?

Restructuring

9. Harvey (1978) The urban process under capitalism
10. Walker and Lewis (2001) Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry
11. Smith (1986) Gentrification, the frontier and the restructuring of urban space
12. Dear and Flusty (1998) Postmodern urbanism

Governance, politics and inequality

13. Goodwin & Painter (1996) Local governance, the crises of Fordism and the changing geographies of regulation
14. Clarke & Gaile (1997) Local politics in a global era: thinking locally, acting globally
15. Cox (2001) Territoriality, politics and the 'urban'
16. Jessop, Peck and Tickell (1999) Retooling the machine: economic crisis, state restructuring and urban politics
17. Short (1989) Yuppies, yuffies and the new urban order
18. McLeod (2002) From urban entrepreneurialism to a 'revanchist city'?

Difference

19 .Kay Anderson (1987) The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category
20. Laura Pulido, S. Sidawi & R. Voss (1996) An Archaeology of Environmental Racism in Los Angeles
21. Gerry Pratt & Susan Hanson (1991) On the Links between Home and Work
22. Liz Bondi (1991) Gender Divisions and Gentrification
23. Larry Knopp (1997) Gentrification and Gay Neighborhood Formation in New Orleans: A Case Study

Form & Symbolism

24. David Ley (1987) Styles of the Times: Liberal and Neo-conservative Landscapes in Inner Vancouver
25. Paul Knox (1991) The restless urban landscape
26. Judith Kenny (1992) Portland's Comprehensive Plan as Text: the Fred Meyer Case and the Politics of Reading
27. Jon Goss (1993) The magic of the mall
28. Larry Ford (1994) Sunshine and Shadow: Lighting and Color in the Depiction of Cities on Film
39. Fyfe and Bannister (1995) City watching
30. Warf (1999) Telecommunications and the changing geographies of knowledge transmission in the late 20th century
31. Elwood (2001) GIS use in community planning: a multi-dimensional analysis of empowerment
32. Kaika, M. and Swyngedouw, E. (2000) Fetishizing the modern city: the phantasmagoria of urban technological networks