Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Sociology in Urban -- Social Justice and the City -- Public Cities -- Social Justice and the South African Cities -- Urban Risks and Violence in France and US -- Global and Local, the Information Age, and American Metropolitan Development -- Retheorizing the Local and the Global -- Depoliticizing Globalization: From Neo-Marxism to the Network Society -- Urban Analysis as Merchandising: LA School and Metropolitan Development -- Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe -- State Socialism, Post-Socialism, and Urban patterns -- City studies Under Socialism -- Economic Miracles of Megacities -- Urban processes and City Contexts; Indian and Middle East -- Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore -- Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture and Power -- Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces : Globalization -- Social Movements -- Urban Processes and City Contexts: United State -- Media and Urban Development -- Sex, Political Economy and Public Space -- Corporate Elites in Urban Studies -- Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites and Redevelopment of Hollywood