TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davidson,Mark
AU  - Martin,Deborah
TI  - Urban politics: critical approaches 
U1  - 320.85 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Municipal government
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2011; Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note; 1; Thinking critically about urban politics; Deborah Martin --; SECTION 1; CITY AS SETTING --; Introduction to City as Setting; Deborah Martin --; 2; The neighbourhood as a place for (urban) politics; Deborah Martin --; 3; Splintered governance: urban politics in the twenty-first century; Kevin Ward --; 4; Ruthless: the foreclosure of American urban politics; Kathe Newman --; SECTION 2; CITY AS MEDIUM --; Introduction to City as Medium; Deborah Martin --; 5; Policing the city; Kurt Iveson --; 6; Mayors and the representation of urban politics; Donald McNeill --; 7; Making urban politics go away: the role of legally mandated planning processes in occluding city power; John Carr --; SECTION 3; CITY AS COMMUNITY --; Introduction to City as Community; Mark Davidson --; 8; Queering the city: sexual citizenship in creative city Singapore; Natalie Oswin --; 9; Making space in the multicultural city: immigrant settlement, neighbourhoods and urban politics; Jamie Winders --; 10; The embedded politics of entrepreneurs; Susan Hanson --; 11; Is class relevant to urban politics?; Mark Davidson --; 12; The urban imaginary of nature: cities in American environmental politics; Matthew Huber --; 13; Urban politics as parallax; Mark Davidson
N2  - Offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world; Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction
ER  -