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

Recognizing the deep relations between politics, finance, cities and citizens, this book argues for a rejuvenated account of urban theory.

The book emphasises the need to understand the importance of the 2008 global financial crisis and how the crisis affects cities nested in a variety of political economies. Situating urban theory in the current economic climate, it powerfully illuminates the dynamic between history, theory, and practice. Stressing how catastrophic social and economic calamities under the crisis lead to reorganised city structures, city life and city policies and hence new urban experience, it calls for theoretical perspectives that can speak to these challenging changes.  

This groundbreaking title is a must for anyone interested in urban life and its rapid movements. It will be especially useful for students and researchers in urban sociology, planning, geography, urban and regional development and urban studies