Part 1: Exploring Theoretical Issues in Urban Human/Nonhuman Animal Relations
1. Animals in the City, A Review
Marie Carmen Shingne and Laura A. Reese
2. The More-Than-Human Right to the City: A Multispecies Reevaluation
Marie Carmen Shingne
3. The Zoopolitics of Movement in the Postapartheid City
Jesse Arseneault
4. Of Fowl Feet, Beak, and Street: Eyes on the Ground in Ybor City
Jeremy G. Gordon
Part 2: Multispecies Relationships in the City
5. Kawaii Pets and Animal Abandonment in Japan
Seven Mattes
6. There Goes the Neighborhood: Urban Coyotes and the Politics of Wildlife
Christian Hunold and Teresa Lloro
7. The Multispecies Community Within the Training and Housing Complex Inside the Racetrack Sluzewiec, From Pre-Socialist, Through Socialist, to Present-Day Warsaw
Barbara Bossak-Herbst
8. Leisure, Life Satisfaction and Urban Space: Elderly Bird-Keepers in Hong Kong
Ho Hon Leung and Esther Hiu Kwan Yung
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Part 3: Public Policy Implications of Animals in the City
9. When Urban Masculinity Manifests in Violence: On Finding Practical Solutions to End the Practice of Dogfighting in America
Heather Stewart
10. Animal Cruelty and the Urban Environment
Laura A. Reese, Josh Vertalka, and Cassie Richard
11. Breed-Specific Legislation: An Examination of the Policy’s Failures For Both People and Pit Bulls
Carly Goteiner
12. The Management of Free-Roaming Cats in US Cities: An Increasingly Important Public Policy Issue
Peter Wolf and Frank Hamilton
13. Humane Communities: Social Change Through Policies Promoting Collective Welfare
Sloane M. Hawes, Erin Flynn, Philip Tedeschi, and Kevin N. Morris
Biography
Laura A. Reese is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Political Science and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University. She is the editor of the Global Urban Book Series for Routledge Publications and an editor for the journal Animals. Her main research and teaching areas are in urban politics/studies and public policy, economic development, animal welfare policy, and local governance, management, and planning in Canada and the United States. She has written or edited 17 books and over 100 articles and book chapters in these areas.
