A Janus-Faced Institution of Ethnoracial Closure A Sociological Specification of the Ghetto / Loic Wacquant -- The Subalterns Speak Out Urban Plebeian Society in Late Imperial Russia / Ilya V. Gerasimov -- " ... not intended for the Rich" Public Places as Points of Identification for the Urban Poor -- St. Petersburg (1850--1914) / Hans-Christian Petersen -- Blood in the Air Everyday Violence in the Experience of the Petersburg Poor, 1905--1917 / Mark D. Steinberg -- Outcast Vienna 1900 The Politics of Transgression / Wolfgang Maderthaner -- Revisiting Campbell Bunk / Jerry White -- Creating the City of Delhi Stories of Strong Women and Weak Walls / Jaspal Naveel Singh -- Urban Meeting Locations of Nicaraguan Migrants in Costa Rica's Metropolitan Area and the Spatial Effects on their Social Support Networks / Hauke Jan Rolf -- Urban Poverty and Gentrification A Comparative View on Different Areas in Hamburg / Ingrid Breckner.

Europe's only Megacity Urban Growth, Migration and Gentrification in 21st Century Moscow / Jan Kusber.