Published in association with the International Sociological Association, this book explores financial, social and political crisis and how they affect urban experiences and so too urban theory.

Introduction: Cities and Crisis - Challenges for Urban Theory - Kuniko Fujita
Chapter 2: 'Global Cities', World Power, and the G20 Capital Cities - Göran Therborn
Chapter 3: Was the US Subprime Crisis the Prime Mover? The Limits of the 'Critical Urbanist' Interpretation of the UK Financial Crisis - Chris Pickvance
Chapter 4: After Wall Street? New York¿s Green Economy Imaginaries - Michael Indergaard
Chapter 5: World Capitals of Capital, Cities and Varieties of Finance Systems - Internationally versus Regionally Oriented Banking - Stefan Gärtner
Chapter 6: Seeing New York City¿s Financial Crisis in the Vernacular Landscape - Jerome Krase & Timothy Shortell
Chapter 7: Ports in the Global Urban Hierarchy - Alex Hicks & Ryan Hicks
Chapter 8: Athens and the Politics of the Sovereign Debt Crisis - Nicos Souliotis
Chapter 9: Globalization and Urban Insecurity - Comparative Perspectives - Sophie Body-Gendrot
Chapter 10: Financial Crises and Spatial Income Inequality - The Case of Tokyo - Kuniko Fujita