1. Introduction, Jacobs and Fincher

2. Grids of Difference: Place and Identity Formation, Pratt

3. In the Right Place at the Right Time?: Life Stages and Urban Spaces, Fincher

4. Suburban Stories, Gendered Lives: Thinking through Difference, Dowling

5. Justice and the Disabling City, Gleeson

6. Community Responses to Human Service Delivery in U.S. Cities, Takahashi

7. Sexuality and Urban Space: Gay Male Identity Politics in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, Knopp

8. Sexing the City, Bondi

9. Sites of Difference: Beyond a Cultural Politics of Race Polarity, Anderson

10. Contesting Social Relations in Communal Places: Identity Politics among Asian Communities in Dar es Salaam, Nagar and Leitner

11. Staging Difference: Aestheticization and the Politics of Difference in Contemporary Cities, Jacobs

12. Whose City?: Gender, Class, and Immigrants in Globalizing European Cities, Kofman

13. Social Polarization and the Politics of Difference: Discourses in Collision or Collusion?, Gibson