This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis

I: The Neo-Classical Tradition; 1: A Theory of the Urban Land Market; 2: The Spatial Structure of the Housing Market; 3: The Journey-to-Work as a Determinant of Residential Location; II: Human Ecology; 4: Human Ecology; 5: Toward a More Human Human Ecology: An Urban Research Strategy; 6: Growth, Politics, and the Stratification of Places; 7: Men Without Property: The Tramp's Classification and Use of Urban Space; III: Conflict and Institutional Constraints; 8: Local Interests and Urban Political Processes In Market Societies; 9: Locational Conflict and the Politics of Consumption; 10: Urban Social Theory and Research; 11: The Role of Institutions in the Inner London Housing Market: The Case of Islington; 12: Large Builders, Federal Housing Programmes, and Postwar Suburbanization; IV: Marxist Approaches; 13: The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis; 14: Capital Accumulation and Urbanization in the United States; 15: Class-Monopoly Rent, Finance Capital and the Urban Revolution; 16: Toward A Theory of Gentrification: A Back to the City Movement by Capital, Not People