Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls _the trialectic of symbolic space_ (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), _social space_ (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and _physical space_ (the built environment). On this reading, Bourdieu’s topological sociology gives us the tools both to energize and also to challenge the canon of urban studies and to redraw their theoretical landscape. Compact and incisive, _Bourdieu in the City_ will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, and social theory.