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Racialization<br />

Social Production of Space<br />

Spaces of Difference<br />

Spaces of Flows<br />

Tourism<br />

Urban Design<br />

Urban Space<br />

Sustainable Development<br />

Community Planning<br />

Developer<br />

Downtown Revitalization<br />

Environmental Justice<br />

Environmental Policy<br />

Growth Management<br />

Housing<br />

Neighborhood Revitalization<br />

New Urbanism<br />

Sprawl<br />

Urban Planning<br />

Urban Village<br />

Waste<br />

Urban Issues<br />

Contemporary <strong>cities</strong> and urban regions confront a<br />

number of important issues, ranging from individual<br />

problems of poverty to societal problems of<br />

provision of adequate housing and social exclusion.<br />

While it is important not to problematize the city,<br />

the following entries discuss some of the important<br />

issues for urban studies in the twenty-first century.<br />

Catastrophe<br />

Crime<br />

Deindstrialization<br />

Disability and the City<br />

Displacement<br />

Drug Economy<br />

Gentrification<br />

Globalization<br />

Healthy Cities<br />

Homelessness<br />

Marxism and the City<br />

Nuclear War<br />

Right to the City<br />

Social Exclusion<br />

Sprawl<br />

Street Children<br />

Suburbanization<br />

Surveillance<br />

Urban Crisis<br />

Waste<br />

Urban Planning<br />

Reader’s Guide<br />

xiii<br />

Urban planning represents a professional field that<br />

has long been associated with urban studies; a number<br />

of early urban planners, such as Patrick Geddes,<br />

were influential in the development of the field, and<br />

urban planning itself molds the urban environment<br />

where the subject matter of our field is found.<br />

Advocacy Planning<br />

Annexation<br />

City Beautiful Movement<br />

City Planning<br />

Community Development<br />

Convention Centers<br />

Exclusionary Zoning<br />

Garden City<br />

Gender Equity Planning<br />

General Plan<br />

Growth Management<br />

Housing<br />

Planning Theory<br />

Themed Environment<br />

Tourism<br />

Urban Design<br />

Urban Theory<br />

Cinematic Urbanism<br />

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft<br />

Globalization<br />

Marxism and the City<br />

Planning Theory<br />

Stranger<br />

Uneven Development<br />

Urban<br />

Urban Design<br />

Urbanism<br />

Urbanization<br />

Urban Planning<br />

Urban Semiotics<br />

Urban System<br />

Urban Theory<br />

World-Systems Perspective

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