The SAGE Companion to the City

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 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. Each chapter is illustrated with key extracts from the literature:

• Section One: Histories — explains power; religion; science and technology; modernity; the landscape of the city
• Section Two: Economies and Inequalities — explains work and leisure; globalization; innovation and the economy; and the role of the state
• Section Three: Communities — explains migration and settlement; segregation and division; civility; house and home; housing and homelessness
• Section Four: Order and Disorder — explains 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 is essential reading for students of any discipline interested in the city as an object of study.