TY - BOOK AU - Davidson,Mark AU - Martin,Deborah TI - Urban politics: critical approaches SN - 9780857023988 (pbk.) U1 - 320.85 URB 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Los Angeles, London PB - SAGE KW - Cities and towns KW - Political aspects KW - Municipal government KW - Metropolitan government KW - Urban geography N1 - 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 UR - http://www.openisbn.com/isbn/0857023985/ ER -