This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control.

Introduction Transforming Cities, Nick Jewson, Susanne MacGregor; Part 1 Framing the City; Chapter 1 Contested Cities, David Harvey; Chapter 2 The Entrepreneurial City, Bob Jessop; Chapter 3 Post-Fordism and Criminality, John Lea; Chapter 4 Cool Times for a Changing City, Rosemary Mellor; Part 2 Managing and Measuring City Life; Chapter 5 Beyond 'Culture City', Gerry Mooney, Mike Danson; Chapter 6 'Race', Housing and The City, Peter Ratcliffe; Chapter 7 Violence, Space and Gender, Jayne Mooney; Chapter 8 Challenging Perceptions, Janet Foster; Part 3 New Forms of Regulation: Part nership and Empowerment; Chapter 9 Hegemony and Regime in Urban Governance, Chris Collinge, Stephen Hall; Chapter 10 Urban Part nerships, Economic Regeneration and the 'Healthy City', Mike Sheaff; Chapter 11 Policing Late Modernity, Gordon Hughes; Chapter 12 Poverty and Part nership in the Third European Poverty Programme, Robert Moore; Part 4 The Politics of Exclusion and Resistance; Chapter 13 Downtown Redevelopment and Community Resistance, Mike Beazley, Patrick Loftman, Brendan Nevin; Chapter 14 Religion, Education and City Politics, Wendy Ball, James A. Beckford; Chapter 15 Poverty, Excluded Communities and Local Democracy, Mike Geddes;