Kevin Ward, David Imbroscio
Urban politics is a multidisciplinary field, in other words a number of bits — so tospeak — of different disciplines work on it. While those in political science might claimto produce the bulk of the work in this field, others in anthropology, economics, humangeography, planning, social policy and sociology can also claim to be making acontribution. The introduction situates the six sections comprising this essay, in whichcontributors discuss what their respective disciplines bring to the wider field of ‘urbanpolitics’ and highlight some possible areas for future work.