The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research. Featuring many of the top international names in the field, the handbook is divided into nine key sections:

Chapter 1: Introduction - John Hannigan and Greg RichardsSECTION 1: THE GLOBALIZED CITYChapter 2: Locating Transnational Urban Connections Beyond World City Networks - Tim BunnellChapter 3: Frontier financial cities - Adam D. DixonChapter 4: Eventful cities: Strategies for event-based urban development - Greg RichardsSECTION 2: URBAN ENTREPRENEURIALISM, BRANDING, GOVERNANCEChapter 5: Twin cities: territorial and relational urbanism - Mark Jayne, Phil Hubbard and David BellChapter 6: Idealizing the European City in a Neoliberal Age - Philip LawtonChapter 7: City branding as a governance strategy - Jasper Eshuis and Erik-Hans Klijn SECTION 3: MARGINALITY, RISK AND RESILIENCEChapter 8: Territorial Stigmatization: Symbolic Defamation and the Contemporary Metropolis - Tom SlaterChapter 9: The liminal city: Gender, mobility and governance in a twenty-first century African city - Caroline Wanjiku KihatoChapter 10: Constructing and contesting resilience in post-disaster urban communities - Kevin Fox Gotham and Bradford Powers SECTION 4: SUBURBS AND SUBURBANIZATION: STRATIFICATION, SPRAWL, SUSTAINABILITYChapter 11: Emerging geographies of suburban disadvantage - Bill RandolphChapter 12: The climate change challenge and the urban environment: collective action issues in the suburbs - Ian SmithChapter 13: Social construction of smart growth policies and strategies - John HanniganSECTION 5: DISTINCTIVE AND VISIBLE CITIESChapter 14: The global art city - Can Seng OoiChapter 15: Lights, city, action... - Tim EdensorChapter 16: On urban (in)visibilities - Ricardo CamposChapter 17: Events as creative district generators? Beyond the conventional wisdom - Pier Luigi SaccoChapter 18: Mega Events in emerging nations and the festivalisation of the urban backstage. The cases of Brazil and South Africa - Christoph Haferburg and Malte SteinbrinkSECTION 6: CREATIVE CITIESChapter 19: Urban social movements and the night: Struggling for the 'right to the creative (party) city' in Geneva - Robert Hollands, Marie-Avril Berthet, Eva Nada and Virginia BjertnesChapter 20: Creative Cities - an international perspective - Graeme EvansChapter 21: Moving to Meet and Make: Rethinking Creativity in Making Things Take Place - Jørgen Ole BærenholdtChapter 22: Creative clusters in urban spaces - Lénia MarquesChapter 23: Rebalancing the Creative City after 20 years of debate - Nienke van BoomSECTION 7: URBANIZATION, URBANITY AND URBAN LIFESTYLESChapter 24: Urbanization and Housing in Africa - Paul Collier and Anthony J. VenablesChapter 25: Differentiated residential orientations of class fractions - Willem Boterman and Sako Musterd Chapter 26: Some scenes of urban life - Dan SilverChapter 27: Urban foodscapes: Repositioning food in urban studies through the case of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside - Christiana Miewald, Daniela Aiello and Eugene McCannSECTION 8: NEW DIRECTIONS IN URBAN THEORYChapter 28: African ideas of the urban - Garth Myers Chapter 29: New Frontiers in researching Chinese cities - Shenjing He and Junxi QianChapter 30: Informal settlement and assemblage theory - Kim DoveySECTION 9: URBAN FUTURESChapter 31: The changing urban future: The views of the media and academics - Clovis Ultramari and Fabio DuarteChapter 32: Olympic Futures and Urban Imaginings: from Albertopolis to Olympicopolis - John Gold and Margaret Gold Chapter 33: Experiencing the Hybrid City: The role of digital technology in public urban places - Anna Luusua, Johanna Ylipulli, Hannu Kukka and Timo OjalaChapter 34: The New Urban World: Challenges and Policy with Respect to Shrinking Cities - Sujata Shetty and Neil Reid