Thinking critically about urban politics / CITY AS SETTING -- Introduction to City as Setting / The neighbourhood as a place for (urban) politics / Splintered governance: urban politics in the twenty-first century / Ruthless: the foreclosure of American urban politics / CITY AS MEDIUM -- Introduction to City as Medium / Policing the city / Mayors and the representation of urban politics / Making urban politics go away: the role of legally mandated planning processes in occluding city power / CITY AS COMMUNITY -- Introduction to City as Community / Queering the city: sexual citizenship in creative city Singapore / Making space in the multicultural city: immigrant settlement, neighbourhoods and urban politics / The embedded politics of entrepreneurs / Is class relevant to urban politics? / The urban imaginary of nature: cities in American environmental politics / Urban politics as parallax