Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Sociology -- Urban communities -- Urban -- Social theory -- Theorizing the city in time -- Theorizing the premodern city -- Economic rupture and the Marxist response -- Progressive movements -- Theorizing the post-modern city -- Post-industrial city -- Post modern urban culture -- Theorizing the city in space -- City networks -- Central place theory -- National urban networks -- Global urban networks -- Economic city -- Political economy of the city -- Economic globalization -- City of differences -- Urban regime theory -- Neoliberal city -- Erotic city -- Traversing city -- Urban design -- City and nature -- City and ecosystem -- Cyborg city -- Political ecology -- Urban imaginaries -- Marketing the city -- Post industrial city -- Future of urban theory: directions and intersections -- Liquid city -- Contaminated city