The new edition has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary and topical areas included, such as sustainable urban development, globalization, the impact of technology on cities, resilient cities, and urban theory. The seventh edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world, the global city system, and the future of cities in the digital transformation age. While retaining classic writings from authors such as Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, and Louis Wirth, this edition also includes the best contemporary writings of, among others, Peter Hall, Manuel Castells, and Saskia Sassen. New material has been added on compact cities, urban history, placemaking, climate change, the world city network, smart cities, the new social exclusion, ordinary cities, gentrification, gender perspectives, regime theory, comparative urbanization, and the impact of technology on cities.

Bibliographic material has been completely updated and strengthened so that the seventh edition can serve as a reference volume orienting faculty and students to the most important writings of all the key topics in urban studies and planning. The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies, old and new. It is essential reading for anyone interested in studying cities and city life.

Key changes for the new edition:

Sixteen new selections will be added including three selections commissioned specifically for The City Reader 7th edition, Seventeen out-dated readings from the 6th edition will be dropped;

There will be a much greater emphasis throughout on globalization and non-Western citiesboth the key nodes in the world city network and ordinary cities;

Greater attention to issues of gender, race, and ethnicity;

More selections written by women in different parts of the book.

New material on the UK and the EU, gentrification, transactive planning and urban regime theory, critiques of urban triumphalism, smart cities, big data, and electronic surveillance, and transnational migration and opposition to migrants.

Thoroughly updated book, section, and selection introductions;

More and better bibliographic material so the book will function as an academic reference including references to videos and other material available on the web;

General selling points

Broad, interdisciplinary scope, covers the spatial, political, economic, planning, design and global dimensions of the city.

The great value of the City Reader is that it provides an easily accessible compendium of canonical writings in the field of urban studies and planning

The juxtaposition of classic and contemporary writings in thematic sections highlights to the reader that contemporary issues are linked to historical processes.

A coherent, accessible and engaging framework guides the student through the interdisciplinary terrain of urban studies

Contains, General, Section and Selection Introductions, which help the student to understand the general field, while selection introductions explain what the extract is about, why it is important and what contribution it makes to the field as a whole

Anthology seeks to combine theory and practice, it blends the goal of understanding cities with the practical goals of planning them.

The reader is a flexible teaching resource in that individual readings can be matched to the specific topics covered