Laura A. Reese is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Political Science and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University. She is the editor of the Global Urban Book Series for Routledge Publications and an editor for the journal Animals. Her main research and teaching areas are in urban politics/studies and public policy, economic development, animal welfare policy, and local governance, management, and planning in Canada and the United States. She has written or edited 17 books and over 100 articles and book chapters in these areas.

Part 1: Exploring Theoretical Issues in Urban Human/Nonhuman Animal Relations 1. Animals in the City, A Review2. The More-Than-Human Right to the City: A Multispecies Reevaluation3. The Zoopolitics of Movement in the Postapartheid City4. Of Fowl Feet, Beak, and Street: Eyes on the Ground in Ybor City Part 2: Multispecies Relationships in the City 5. Kawaii Pets and Animal Abandonment in Japan6. There Goes the Neighborhood: Urban Coyotes and the Politics of Wildlife7. The Multispecies Community Within the Training and Housing Complex Inside the Racetrack Sluzewiec, From Pre-Socialist, Through Socialist, to Present-Day Warsaw 8. Leisure, Life Satisfaction, and Urban Space: Elderly Bird Keepers in Hong Kong Part 3: Public Policy Implications of Animals in the City 9. When Urban Masculinity Manifests in Violence: On Finding Practical Solutions to End the Practice of Dogfighting in America10. Animal Cruelty and the Urban Environment11. Breed-Specific Legislation: An Examination of the Policy's Failures For Both People and Pit Bulls12. The Management of Free-Roaming Cats in US Cities: An Increasingly Important Public Policy Issue13. Humane Communities: Social Change Through Policies Promoting Collective Welfare