Imagined cities, engaged citizens / Sophie Body-Gendrot and Robert A. Beauregard -- Invitation to a postmodern urbanism / Steven Flusty and Michael Dear -- Crossing Cybercities : urban regions and the cyberspace matrix / M. Christine Boyer -- Post-city challenge / Thierry Paquot -- Whose city is it? : globalization and the formation of new claims / Saskia Sassen -- Transnationalism and the city / Michael Peter Smith -- Urban world through a South African prism / Alan Mabin -- City for whom? : transients and public life in the second-generation metropolis / Guido Martinotti -- Which new-urbanism? : New York City and the revanchist 1990s / Neil Smith -- Urban movements and urban theory in the late-20th-century city / Margit Mayer -- (Promised) scenes of urbanity / Christian Ruby -- Can we make the cities we want? / Susan S. Fainstein -- Spaces of democracy / Richard Sennett.