Urban Studies - Economy (Four-Volume Set) (Sage Library Urban Studies) (1ST ed.)

Biographical Note:
Ronan Paddison is Head of Department of Geography at the University of Glasgow. He is managing editor of Urban Studies, while also editing Space and Polity.

Michael Timberlake is a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. His teaching interests include urban and rural communities, urbanization, comparative social change, and research methodology. His research experience includes quantitative cross-national studies of inequality, political violence, and urbanization; theoretical and empirical development of a world-city network approach to understanding globalization; and in-depth qualitative study of four Mississippi Delta communities, with a focus on the social inequality in relation to community legacies and social/economic practices and policies.

Colin Williams is Professor of Public Policy at the Universtiy of Sheffield. His particular research interest is in studying the magnitude and character of the informal economy and evaluating different public policy approaches and initiatives for tackling this sphere.

Peter Marcotullio is a professor at Columbia University in the City of New York. He has published articles on globalisation and urban development in Pacific Asia and he is the co-editor of Globalization and the Sustainability of Cities in the Asia Pacific Region, UNU Press (2001).

Anne Haila is a professor at the University of Helsinki. Her main research fields are the political economy of real estate, theory of land rent, the regulation of the real estate market, land auctions in Singapore and Hong Kong, comparative urban research, Asian cities.

Throughout the world, the study of cities takes place within a wide variety of social sciences as well as in the some humanities disciplines. Furthermore, in the study of cities a major split occurs between those focusing the economic as opposed to the more social questions raised by cities. In the former the focus is on city economies, their change and how policy intervention is able to steer change; in the latter the emphasis is more on social life and change, power and inequalities. As such, the readings in both Urban Studies - Economics and Urban Studies - Society set out to map the multidisciplinary nature of the field.

Urban Studies - Economics focuses on the city and the urban economy - its meaning, interpretation, study, and measurement. It examines the city in the national economy and then relates urban economies in a globalizing world. The final volume reviews the management of the urban economy.

Volume I - What are Cities?
Volume II - The Urban Economy
Volume III - Urban Economy, Connecting Cities
Volume IV - Managing & Steering Economies

Contributor Bio:Paddison, Ronan
Ronan Paddison is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Glasgow. His research interests focus on the political processes driving urban change and, in particular, under what conditions local participation can contribute to the making of more inclusive and democratic cities. Recent projects have included the role of community participation in the installation of public art, and the limitations to public participation in the post-political city. He is Managing Editor of Urban Studies and of Space and Polity.