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Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. Ed. by Ray Hutchison. Los Angeles: Sage, 2010. 2 vols, acid free $295 (ISBN 978-1-41291432-1). E-book available (ISBN 978-1-4129-7197-3), $405.
The field of urban studies, which encompasses a wide range of disciplines and perspectives, has often defied attempts to treat its all-inclusive analysis of the urban experience in a systematic way. The two-volume Encyclopedia of Urban Studies, edited by urban sociologist Ray Hutchison of the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, succeeds in capturing the breadth and complexity of these multiple strands within an accessible, well -indexed, and amply referenced format.
The work is composed of nearly 350 entries, with content ranging from essays on broad urban issues such as crime, gentrification, and homelessness, to examinations of urban spaces, individual cities, major theories such as urban ecology, and key scholars, including Henri Lefebvre and Edward W Soja. Entries run from three to five dual-column pages, and include descriptive headings and subheadings when appropriate. One of the true strengths of this work is in...