Introduction
By Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen
About the Editor
Jiaming Sun and Xiangming Chen
The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place
Author : Harvey Molotch
A Decade of the New Urban Sociology
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Urbanism as a Way of Life
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Immigration and Urban Change
Author : Roger Waldinger
Economic Restructuring and the American City
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Occupational disparity in a migrant metropolis: a case study of Atlanta
Author : Robert M. Adelman, Hui-shien Tsao and Stewart E. Tolnay
Untangling a global-local nexus: sorting out residential sorting in Shanghai
Author : Xiangming Chen and Jiaming Sun
New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy
Author : Neil Smith
Measurement of the World City Network
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