This reference is a comprehensive study guide to the city. The text explains and evaluates the key ideas, informed by the latest research, adding the necessary historical context to situate the student in the literature and the essential debates. Organized in four sectionsThe SAGE Companion to the City provides a systematic A-Z to understanding the city that explains the interrelations between society, culture, and economy.

"This book pulls together an exceptional range of literature in addressing the complexity of contemporary patterns and processes of urbanization. It offers a rich array of concepts and theories and is studded with fascinating examples that illustrate the changing nature of cities and urban life"
Paul Knox, Virginia Tech University

"The SAGE Companion to the City is a tour-de-force of contemporary urban studies. At once a stocktake, showcase and springboard for scholarly approaches to cities and city life, the editors have assembled a cohesive and convincing set of lucid, insightful and critical essays of great quality. Eschewing grand theory and deadening encyclopediasm, the contributors refresh both longstanding concerns and explore new themes in ways both brilliantly accessible to newcomers and satisfying to the cognoscenti."
- Robert Freestone, University of New South Wales

Organized in four sections The SAGE Companion to the City provides a systematic A-Z to understanding the city that explains the interrelations between society, culture and economy.

• Histories: explores power, religion, science and technology, modernity, and the landscape of the city.
• Economies and Inequalities: explores work and leisure, globalisation, innovation, and the role of the state.
• Communities: explores migration and settlement, segregation and division, civility, housing and homelessness.
• Order and Disorder: explores politics and policy, planning and conflict, law and order, surveillance and terror.

An accessible guide to all areas of urban studies, the text offers both a contemporary cutting edge reflection and measured historical and geographical reflection on urban studies. It will be essential reading for students of any discipline interested in the city as an object of study.

PART ONE: HISTORIES AND IDEOLOGIES
Power and Prestige - Lily Kong
Faith and Devotion - Keith Lilley
Science and Technology - Colin Chant
Modernity and Utopia - John R. Gold
Monuments and Memories - Lisa Benton-Short
PART TWO: ECONOMIES AND INEQUALITIES
Capital and Class - Kevin Ward
Global and Local - Yeong Kim
Innovation and Creativity - Andy C. Pratt
States and Laws - Angus Cameron
Pleasure and Leisure - David Bell, Sarah L. Holloway, Mark Jayne and Gill Valentine
PART THREE: COMMUNITIES AND CONTESTATION
Migration and Settlement - Marie Price
Segregation and Division - David Wilson
Civility and Etiquette - Mick Smith and Joyce Davidson
House and Home - Sarah Holloway
Housing and Homelessness - Gerald Daly
PART FOUR: ORDER AND DISORDER
Politics and Policy - Don McNeill
Speed and Slowness - Alan Latham and Derek McCormack
Planning and Conflict - Malcolm Miles
Crime and Policing - Steve Herbert
Terror and surveillance - Jon Coaffee and David Murakami Wood
Dreams and Nightmares - Stuart C. Aitken