Andrew E.G. Jonas holds a Chair in Human Geography at the University of Hull in the UK. His co-edited books include The Urban Growth Machine; Critical Perspectives Two Decades Later (1999, with David Wilson), Interrogating Alterity (2010, with Duncan Fuller and Roger Lee), and Territory, the State and Urban Politics (2012, with Andy Wood). He serves on the editorial boards of Urban Geography and Territory Politics and Governance.

Eugene McCann is a Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. He is co-editor, with Kevin Ward, of Mobile Urbanism: Cities & Policymaking in the Global Age (2011) and, with Ronan Paddison, Cities & Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism (2014).

List of Tables xi

List of Boxes xii

Acknowledgments xiv

Preface xvi

1 Approaching the City 1

2 Cities for Whom? The Contours and Commitments of Critical Urban Geography 27

3 Production, Economy, and the City 53

4 A World of Cities 77

5 Labor and the City 100

6 The City and Social Reproduction 122

7 Governing the City: The State, Urban Planning, and Politics 141

8 Experiencing Cities 162

9 Molding and Marketing the Image of the City 184

10 Nature and Environment in the City 206

11 Urban Arts and Visual Cultures 229

12 Alternative Urban Spaces and Politics 252

13 Urban Crises 274

14 Epilogue: Critical Urban Geographies and Their Futures 299

Glossary 307

References 325

Index 347

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