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Book reviewed in this article: Ball, M. 1986: Home ownership: a suitable case for reform. Malpass, P. editor, 1986: The housing crisis. Cawson, A. 1986: Corporatism and political theory. Dixon, C.T., Drakakis-Smith, D. and Watts, H.D. editors, 1986: Multinational corporations and the third world. Fox, K. 1986: Metropolitan America: urban life and urban policy in the United States, 1940–1980. Grant, W. editor, 1935: The political economy of corporatism. Jacobs, B.D. 1986: Black politics and urban crisis in Britain. Karn, V., Kemeny, J. and Williams, P. 1985: Home ownership in the inner city: salvation or despair? King, R. editor, 1986: Return migration and regional economic problems. Lundqvist, L.J. 1985: Housing policy and equality: a comparative study of tenure conversions and their effects. Morris, R.J. editor, 1986: Class, power and social structure in British nineteenth-century towns. Rothblatt, D.N. and Garr, D.J. 1986: Suburbia: an international perspective. Scott, A.J. and Storper, M. editors, 1986: Production, work, territory: the geographical anatomy of industrial capitalism. Sheehan, B.J. 1984: The Boston school integration dispute. Smith, N. and Williams, P. editors, 1986: Gentrification of the city.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Angel, S., Archer, R.W., Tanphiphat, S. and Wegelin, E.A. editors, 1983: Land for housing the poor. Armstrong, W. and McGee, T.G. 1985: Theatres of accumulation: studies in Asian and Latin American urbanization. Gwynne, R.N. 1985: Industrialisation and urbanisation in Latin America. Breheny, M. and Hooper, A. editors, 1985: Rationality in planning: critical essays on the role of rationality in urban and regional planning. Bulmer, M. 1986: Neighbours: the work of Philip Abrams. Castells, M. editor, 1985: High technology, space and society. Demko, G. editor, 1984: Regional development, problems and policies in eastern and western Europe. Dickens, P., Duncan, S., Goodwin, M. and Gray, F. 1985: Housing, states and localities. Edel, M., Sclar, E.D. and Luria, D. 1984: Shaky places: home ownership and social mobility in Boston's suburbanization. Forrest, R. and Murie, A. 1985: An unreasonable act? Goldsmith, M. editor, 1986: New research in central-local relations. Goldberg, M.A. and Mercer, J. 1986: The myth of the north American city: continentalism challenged. Gordon, G. editor, 1986: Regional cities in the UK 1890–1980. Hamel, P. and Leonard, J-F. 1981: Les organisations populaires, l'etat et la démocratie Lesemann, F. 1984: Services and circuses: community and the welfare state. Hudson, R. and Lewis, J. editors, 1985: Uneven development in southern Europe: studies of accumulation, class, migration and the state. Kern-Simirenko. C.A. editor, 1982: Professionalization of Soviet society: essays written by Alex Simirenko. Krämer, J. and Neef, R. editors, 1985: Krise und konflikte in der großstadt im entwickelten kapitalismus. Logan, W.S. 1985: The gentrification of inner Melbourne: a political geography of inner city housing. Loughlin, M., Gelfand, M.D. and Young, K. editors, 1985: Half a century of municipal decline, 1935–1985. Flynn, N., Leach, S. and Vielba, C. 1985: Abolition or reform? The GLC and the Metropolitan County Councils. Ranson, S., Jones, G. and Walsh, K. editors, 1985: Between centre and locality. Massey, D. and Meegan, R. editors, 1985: Politics and method: contrasting studies in industrial geography. Pacione, M. editor, 1985: Progress in industrial geography. McAuslan, P. 1985: Urban land and shelter for the poor. Murgatroyd, L., Savage, M., Shapiro, D., Urry, J., Walby, S., Warde, A. with Marklawson, J. 1985: Localities, class and gender. Rees, G., Bujra, J., Littlewood, P., Newby, H. and Rees, T.L. editors, 1985: Political action and social identity: class, locality and ideology. Roberts, B., Finnegan, R. and Gallie, D. editors, 1985: New approaches to economic restructuring: unemployment and the social division of labour.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Andrusz, G.D. 1984: Housing and urban development in the USSR. Apter, D. and Sawa, N. 1984: Against the state: politics and social protest in Japan. Barrett, P. 1983: The automobile and urban transit: the formation of public policy in Chicago, 1900–1930. Bateman, M. 1985: Office development. Browning, R.P., Marshall, D.R. and Tabb, D.H. 1984: Protest is not enough. The struggle of blacks and hispanics for equality in urban politics. Clark, G. and Dear, M. 1984: State apparatus. Structures and language of legitimacy. Cooke, P. 1983: Theories of planning and spatial development. Delorme, R. and André, C. 1983: L'état et l'économie: un essai d'explication de l'évolution des dépenses publiques en France (1870–1980). Fetter, B. 1983: Colonial rule and regional imbalance in central Africa. Forbes, D.K. 1984: The geography of underdevelopment. Forbes, D.K. and Rimmer, P.J. editors, 1984: Uneven development and the geographical transfer of value. Godbout, J. 1983: La participation contre la démocratie. Hague, C. 1984: The development of planning thought. Harloe, M. 1985: Private rented housing in the United States and Europe. Johnston, R.J. 1984: Residential segregation, the state, and constitutional conflict in American urban areas. Kirby, A., Knox, P. and Pinch, S. editors, 1984: Public service provision and urban development. McDonald, J. and Ward, S.K. editors, 1984: The politics of urban fiscal policy. Rassam, A. and Zghal, A. editors, 1980: Système urbain et development au Maghreb. Redclift, N. and Mingione, E. editors, 1985: Beyond employment: household, gender and subsistence. Seers, D. and Öström, K. editors, 1983: The crises of the European regions. Skinner, R.J. and Rodell, M.J. editors, 1983: People, poverty and shelter. Szelenyi, I. 1983: Urban inequalities under state socialism. Kolosi, T. and Wnuk-Lipinski, E. editors, 1983: Equality and inequality under socialism. Tabb, W.K. and Sawers, L. editors, 1984: Marxism and the metropolis. Taub, R.P., Taylor, D.G. and Dunham, J.D. 1984: Paths of neighborhood change: race and crime in urban America. Van Vliet, W., Huttman, E. and Fava, S.F. editors, 1985: Housing needs and policy approaches: trends in thirteen countries. Boleat, M. 1984: National housing finance systems: a comparative study. Weaver, C. 1984: Regional development and the local community: planning, politics and social context. Wynn, M. editor, 1984: Planning and urban growth in southern Europe.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ball, M., Bentivegna, V., Edwards, M. and Folin, M. editors, 1985: Land rent, housing and urban planning. A European perspective. Boyer, M.C. 1983: Dreaming the rational city: the myth of American city planning. Chapman, R.A. editor, 1985: Public policy studies: the northeast of England. Galasi, P. and Sziráczki, G. editors, 1985: Labour market and second economy in Hungary. Gappert, G. and Knight, R.V. editors, 1982: Cities in the 21st century. Giarchi, G.G. 1984: Between McAlpine and Polaris. Halligan, J. and Paris, C. with Wells, J. editors, 1984: Australian urban politics. Hamm, B. editor, 1984: Urban and regional sociology in Poland and W. Germany. Hamm, B. and Jalowiecki, B. editors, 1984: Urbanism and human values. Mirowski, W. and Mlinar, Z. editors, 1984: Urban social processes in Poland and Yugoslavia: theoretical and methodological issues. Hardy, D. and Ward, C. 1984: Arcadia for all: the legacy of a makeshift landscape. Hargrove, E.C. and Conkin, P. editors, 1983: TVA: 50 years of grass-roots bureaucracy. Holton, R.J. 1985: The transition from feudalism to capitalism. Jenkins, R. 1983: Lads, citizens and ordinary kids: working-class youth life styles in Belfast. Jones, G.W. editor, 1984: Women in the urban and industrial workforce: southeast and east Asia. Massey, D. 1984: Spatial divisions of labour: social structures and the geography of production. Ward, R. and Jenkins, R. editors, 1984: Ethnic communities in business: strategies for economic survival. Zukin, S. editor, 1985: Industrial policy: business and politics in the United States and France.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ambrose P. 1986: Whatever happened to planning? Amin, A. and Goddard, B. editors, 1986: Technological change, industrial restructuring and regional development. Anderson, J. editor, 1986: The rise of the modern state. Bruton, M. and Nicholson, D. 1987: Local planning in practice. Clapham, D. and English, J. editors, 1987: Public housing: current trends and future developments. Clavel, P. 1986: The progressive city: planning and participation, 1969–1984. Cloke, P. editor, 1987: Rural planning: policy into action?. Healey, M.J. and Ilbery, B.W. editors, 1985: The industrialization of the countryside. Eyles, J. 1987: The geography of the National Health: an essay in welfare geography. Foglesong, R.E. 1986: Planning the capitalist city: the Colonial Era to the 1920s. Goldberg, M.A. 1985: The Chinese connection. Getting plugged in to Pacific Rim real estate, trade and capital markets. Hoggart, K. and Kofman, E. editors, 1986: Politics, geography and social stratification. Jaguaribe, H., dos Santos, W., de Paiva, M., Fritsch, W. and Bastos de Avila, F. 1986: Brazil, 2000: para um Novo Pacto Social Lees, A. 1985: Cities perceived: urban society in European and American thought 1820–1940. Lowder, S. 1986. Third world Cities. Markusen, A., Hall, P. and Glasmeier, A. 1986: High tech America: the what, how, where and why of the sunrise industries. Martin, R. and Rowthorn, B. editors, 1986: The geography of deindustrialisation. Newman, D. editor, 1985: The impact of Gush-Emunim: politics and settlement in the West Bank. Rees, G. and Lambert, J. 1985: Cities in crisis: the political economy of urban development in postwar Britain. Smith, Susan J. 1986: Crime, space and society. Southall, A., Nas, P.J.M. and Ansari, G. editors, 1985: City and society: studies in urban ethnicity, life-style and class.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agnew, J. 1987: Place and politics: the geographical mediation of state and society. Djaiet, H. 1986: Al Kufa: naissance de la ville islamique. Gilbert, A. and Healey, P. 1985: The political economy of land: urban development in an oil economy. Hadjimichalis, C. 1986: Uneven development and regionalism: state, territory and class in southern Europe. Harris, C.C. 1987: Redundancy and recession in South Wales. Hirsch, J. and Roth, R. 1986: Das neue Gesicht des Kapitalismus: Vom Fordismus zum Post-Fordismus. Manners, G. and Morris, D. 1986: Office policy in Britain: a review. Martins, M.R. 1986: An organizational approach to regional planning. Slater, D. editor, 1985: New social movements and the state in Latin America. Watson, S. with Austerberry, H. 1986: Housing and homelessness: a feminist perspective. Whittington, D. editor, 1985: High hopes for high tech: micro-electronic policy in North Carolina.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Agnew, J., Mercer, J. and Sopher, D. editors, 1984: The city in cultural context. Blowers, A. 1984: Something in the air: corporate power and the environment. Boddy, M. and Fudge, C. editors, 1984: Local socialism? Seabrook, J. 1984: The idea of neighbourhood: what local politics should be about. Clark, T.N. and Ferguson, L.C. 1983: City money. Political processes, fiscal strain and retrenchment. Sbragia, A.M. editor, 1983: The municipal money chase. The politics of local government finance. Cope, D.R., Hills, P. and James, P. editors, 1984: Energy policy and land-use planning: an international perspective. Daunton, M.J. editor, 1984: Councillors and tenants: local authority housing in English cities?, 1919–1939. Davies, T., Mason, C. and Davies, L. 1984: Government and local labour market policy implementation. Dawson, A.H. 1984: The land problem in the developed economy. Gore, C. 1984: Regions in question: space, development theory and regional policy. Redclift, M. 1984: Development and the environmental crisis. Red or green alternatives. Greer, A.L. and Greer, S. editors, 1983: Cities and sickness: health care in urban America. King, A. 1984: The bungalow. The production of a global culture. Leitner, H. 1983: Gastarbeiter in der städtischen Gesellschaft: Segregation, Integration und Assimilation von Arbeitsmigranten Am Beispiel jugoslawischer Gastarbeiter in Wien. O'Connor, A. 1983: The African city. O'Connor, J. 1984: Accumulation crisis. Pahl, R.E. 1984: Divisions of labour. Palen, J.J. and London, B. editors, 1984: Gentrification, displacement and neighborhood revitalization. Papadakis, E. 1984: The Green Movement in West Germany. Peil, M. and Sada, P.O. 1984: African urban society. Preteceille, E. and Terrail, J. 1985: Capitalism, consumption and needs. Rodwin, L. and Hollister, R.M. 1984: Cities of the mind: images and themes of the city in the social sciences. Schoorl, J.W., van der Linden, J.J. and Yap, K.S. editors, 1983: Between Basti dwellers and bureaucrats: lessons in squatter upgrading in Karachi. Sharpe, L.S. and Newton, K. 1984: Does politics matter? The determinants of public policy. Walton, J. 1984: Reluctant rebels. Comparative studies of revolution and underdevelopment. White, P. 1984: The west European city: a social geography. ARAU 1984: Bruxelles vu par ses habitants—quinze années d'action urbaine. Wild, T. editor, 1983: Urban and rural change in West Germany.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Baldassare, M. editor, 1983: Cities and urban living. Castells, M. 1983: The city and the grassroots. Crenson, M. 1983: Neighborhood politics. Efrat, E. 1984: Urbanization in Israel. Fainstein, N. and Fainstein, S. editors, 1982: Urban policy under capitalism. Fraser, D. and Sutcliffe, A. editors, 1983: The pursuit of urban history. Harrison, M.L. editor, 1984: Corporatism and the welfare state. Hartman, C. editor, 1983: America's housing crisis: what is to be done? Husbands, C.T. 1983: Racial exclusionism and the city: the urban support of the National Front. Long, M. 1982: Moral regime and model institutions: precursors of town planning in early Victorian England. Melling, J. 1983: Rent strikes: peoples' struggle for housing in west Scotland, 1890–1916. Damer, S. 1982: Rent strike! The Clydebank rent strike of the 1920s. Mollenkopf, J. 1983: The contested city. Offe, C. (edited by Keane, J. ) 1984: Contradictions of the welfare state. Sandercock, L. and Berry, M. 1983: Urban political economy. Schill, M.H. and Nathan, R.P. 1983: Revitalizing America's cities: neighborhood reinvestment and displacement. Sharpe, W. and Wallock, L. editors, 1983: Visions of the modern city: essays in history, art and literature. Wynn, M. editor, 1983: Housing in Europe.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Boal, F.W. and Douglas, J.N.H. editors, 1982: Integration and division: geographical perspectives on the Northern Ireland problem. Bourne, L.S. 1981: The geography of housing. Bryce, J. editor, 1981: Cities and firms. Leven, C.L. editor, 1978: The mature metropolis. Clark, T. editor, 1981: Urban policy analysis: directions for future research. Levine, C. and Rubin, I. editors, 1980: Fiscal stress and public policy. de Neufville, J.I. editor, 1981: The land use policy debate in the United States. Foster, M.S. 1981: From streetcar to superhighway: American city planners and urban transportation, 1900–40. Gottfried, R.S. 1982: Bury St Edmunds and the urban crisis: 1290–1539. Grant, W. 1982: The political economy of industrial policy. Hartman, C., Keating, D. and LeGates, R. 1982: Displacement: how to fight it. Herbert, D.T. and Johnston, R.J. editors, 1981: Geography and the urban environment: progress in research and applications. Jones, G.W. editor, 1980: New approaches to the study of central-local government relationships. Keller, S. editor, 1981: Building for women. Lebas, E. (with contributions by Enzo Mingione, Vicente Granados and Gregory Andrusz) 1982: Urban and regional sociology in advanced industrial societies: a decade of Marxist and critical perspectives. Linge, G.J.R. and McKay, J. editors, 1981: Structural change in Australia: some spatial and organizational responses. Madge, C. and Willmott, P. 1981: Inner city poverty in Paris and London. Massey, D. and Meegan, R. 1982: The anatomy of job loss. The how, why and where of employment decline. Schwartz, G.G. editor, 1981: Advanced industrialization and the inner cities. Slowe, P.M. 1981: The advance factory in regional development. Stohr, W. B. and Taylor, D. R. F. editors, 1981: Development from above or below? The dialectics of regional planning in developing countries.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Alford, R.R. and Friedland, R. 1985: Powers of theory: the state, capitalism and democracy. Bullock, N. and Read, J. 1985: The movement for housing reform in Germany and France, 1840–1914. de Vries, J. 1984: European urbanisation 1500–1800. Matrix 1984: Making space: women and the man-made environment. Mény, Y. and Wright, V. editors, 1985: Centre-periphery relations in western Europe. Hebbert, M. and Machin, H. editors, 1984: Regionalisation in France, Italy and Spain. Pinch, S. 1985: Cities and services: the geography of collective consumption. Rose, M.E. editor, 1985: The poor and the city: the English Poor Law and its urban context, 1834–1914. Siegmann, H. 1985: The conflicts between labour and environmentalism in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States. Smith, N. 1984: Uneven development: nature, capital and the production of space. Timberlake, M. editor, 1985: Urbanization in the world-economy. Walton, J. editor, 1985: Capital and labour in the urbanized world. Williams, P. editor, 1984: Conflict and development.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Allen, S. and Walkowitz, C. 1987: Homeworking: myths and realities. Beck, U. 1986: Risikogesellschaft. Auf dem Weg in eine andere Moderne. Benyon, J. and Solomos, J. editors, 1987: The roots of urban unrest. Dear, M.J. and Wolch, J.R. 1987: Landscapes of despair: from deinstitutionalisation to homelessness. Donnison, D. and Middleton, A. editors, 1987: Regenerating the inner city: Glasgow's experience. Faludi, A. 1987: A decision-centred view of environmental planning. Friedmann, J. 1987: Planning in the public domain: from knowledge to action. Hall, P., Breheney, M., McQuaid, R. and Hart, D. 1987: Western sunrise: the genesis and growth of Britain's major high tech corridor. Lawson, R. editor, with Naison, M. 1986: The tenant movement in New York City, 1904–1984. Reulecke, J. 1985: Geschichte der Urbanisierung in Deutschland. Sternlieb, G. 1986: Patterns of development. Wood, J. 1986: Southern capitalism: the political economy of North Carolina, 1880–1980.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Blowers, A., Brook, C., Dunleavy, P. and McDowell, L. editors, 1982: Urban change and conflict: an interdisciplinary reader. Cochrane, A., Hamnett, C. and McDowell, L. editors, 1982: City, economy and society: a comparative reader. Clavel, P. 1983: Opposition planning in Wales and Appalachia. Cox, K.R. and Johnston, R.J. editors, 1982: Conflict, politics and the urban scene. Elliott, B. and McCrone, D. 1982: The city: patterns of domination and conflict. Englander, D. 1983: Landlord and tenant in urban Britain 1838–1918. Epstein, A.L. 1981: Urbanization and kinship: the domestic domain on the Copper-belt of Zambia 1950–56. Eversley, D. and Kollmann, W. editors, 1982: Population change and social planning. Forrest, R., Henderson, J. and Williams, P. editors, 1982: Urban political economy and social theory. Gibson, M. S. and Langstaff, M. J. 1982: An introduction to urban renewal Gilbert, A. editor (in association with Hardoy, J. E. and Ramirez, R.) 1982: Urbanization in contemporary Latin America. Gilbert, A. and Gugler, J. 1982: Cities, poverty and development — urbanization in the third world. Healey, P., McDougall, G. and Thomas, M.J. editors, 1982: Planning theory: prospects for the 1980s. Maguire, C.C. 1981: International housing policies. Marcussen, L. 1982: Settlement in Turkey: a report on the politics of housing and urbanization. Schwerdtfeger, F. W. 1982: Traditional housing in African cities. Smith, M.P. 1980: The city and social theory. Starkie, D. 1982: The motorway age: road and traffic policies in postwar Britain. Thompson, F.M.L. editor, 1982: The rise of suburbia. Ward, P.M. editor, 1982: Self-help housing: a critique. Whitt, J.A. 1982: Urban elites and mass transportation: the dialectics of power. Wikan, U. 1980: Life among the poor in Cairo     

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Book reviewed in this article: Badcock, B. 1984: Unfairly structured cities. Bowles, S., Gordon, D.M. and Weisskopf, T.E. 1983: Beyond the waste land: a democratic alternative to economic decline. Reich, R.B. 1983: The next American frontier. Cooper, F. editor, 1983: Struggle for the city: migrant labor capital and the state in urban Africa. Cox, A. 1984: Adversary politics and land: the conflict over land and property policy in post-war Britain. Daunton, M.J. 1983: House and home in the Victorian City: working class housing 1850–1914. Gaskell, S.M. 1983: Building control: national legislation and the introduction of local by-laws in Victorian England. Doling, J. and Davies, M. 1984: Public control of privately rented housing. Hillier, B. and Hanson, J. 1984: The social logic of space. Oakey, R. 1984: High technology small firms: innovation and regional development in Britain and the United States. Owens, P.L. and House, R. editors, 1984: Radical geography: an annotated bibliography. Rokkan, S. and Urwin, D.W. 1983: Economy, territory, identity: the politics of west European peripheries. Samuels, R.J. 1983: The politics of regional policy in Japan. Smith, D.M. editor, 1982: Living under apartheid: aspects of urbanization and social change in South Africa.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Cawson, A. 1982: Corporatism and welfare. Social policy and state intervention in Britain. Cherry, G. 1982: The politics of town planning. Dear, M. and Scott, A.J. editors, 1981: Urbanisation and urban planning in capitalist society. Donnison, D. and Ungerson, C. 1982: Housing policy. Short, J. 1982: Housing in Britain: the postwar experience. Fothergill, S. and Gudgin, G. 1982: Unequal growth: urban and regional employment change in the UK. Frank, H. and Schubert, D. editors, 1983: Lesebuch zur Wohnungsfrage. Friedland, R. 1982: Power and crisis in the city: corporations, unions and urban policy. Friedman, J. and Weinberg, D.H. editors, 1983: The great housing experiment. Goodman, D. and Redclift, M. 1981: From peasant to proletarian. Capitalist development and agrarian transitions. Hellstern, G-M., Speer, F. and Wollman, H. editors, 1982: Applied urban research. Proceedings of the European Meeting on Applied Urban Research, Essen, 2–4 October 1981 Herlyn, U. and Göschel, A., Kramer, J., Schardt, T. and Wendt, G. 1980: Grossstadtstrukturen und ungleiche Lebensbedingungen in der Bundesrepublik. Heskin, A.D. 1983: Tenants and the American dream: ideology and the tenant movement. Hirsch, A.R. 1983: Making the second ghetto: race and housing in Chicago 1940–60. Johnson, J. and Pooley, C. editors, 1982: The structure of nineteenth-century cities. Loney, M. 1983: Community against government: the British Community Development Project 1968–78 - a study of government incompetence. Maillat, D. editor, 1982: Technology: a key factor for regional development. McKay, D.H. editor, 1982: Planning and politics in western Europe. Merrett, S. with Gray, F. 1982: Owner occupation in Britain. Zukin, S. 1982: Loft living: culture and capital in urban change.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Bouquet, M. and Winter, M. editors, 1987: Who from their labours rest? Conflict and practice in rural tourism. Chapman, K. and Humphrys, G. editors, 1987: Technical change and industrial policy. Danson, M. editor, 1986: Redundancy and recession. Restructuring the regions? Gilroy, P. 1987: ‘There ain't no black in the Union Jack’: the cultural politics of race and nation. Glebe, G. and O'Loughlin, J. editors, 1987: Foreign minorities in continental European cities. Henckel, D., Nopper, E. and Rauch, N. 1984: Informationstechnologie und Stadtentwicklung Henckel, D., Grabow, B., Knopf, C., Rauch, N. and Regitz, W. 1986: Produktionstechnologien und Raumentwicklung McGee, T. with Choo, C., Linge, G., Missen, G., Salih, K., Taylor, M., Young, L. and Warr, P. 1986: Industrialisation and labour force processes: case study of Peninsular Malaysia. Taylor, M. and Thrift, N. editors, 1986: Multinationals and the restructuring of the world economy. Waldinger, R. 1986: Through the eye of the needle: immigrants and enterprise in New York's garment trades.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Beauregard, R. , editor, 1989: Economic restructuring and political response. Blanke, B., Heinelt, H. , and Macke, C.-W. 1987: Großstadt und Arbeitslosigkeitein Problemsyndrom im Netz lokaler Sozialpolitik. Block, F.R. 1988: Revising state theory: essays in politics and postindustrialism. Breckner, I. and Krummacher, M. 1985: Regionalentwicklung zwischen Technologieboom und Resteverwertung. Krummacher, M., Schrooten, F. and Wupper, H. 1986: Umbruch der Stadt — z. B. Bochum. Forrest, R. and Murie, A. 1988: Selling the welfare state: the privatisation of public housing. Gottdiener, M. 1987: The decline of urban politics: political theory and the crisis of the local state. Harris, A., Lloyd, G. and Newlands, D. 1988: The impact of oil on the Aberdeen economy. Huttman, E. and van Vliet, W. editors, 1988: Handbook of housing and the built environment in the United States. Keim, D. , editor, 1989: Arbeit an der Stadt: Plädoyers für eine selbstproduktive Politik der Stadtentwicklung. Lefèvre, Ch., Body-Gendrot, S. et al. 1988: Les villes des Etats-Unis. Peet, R. , editor, 1987: International capitalism and industrial restructuring: a critical analysis. Porteous, J.M. 1989: Planned to death: the annihilation of a place called Howdendyke. Prigge, W. , editor, 1987: Die Materialität des Städtischen: Stadtentwicklung im gesellschaftlichen Umbruch. Scott, A.J. 1988: New industrial spaces. Smith, M. P. 1988: City, state and market: the political economy of urban society. Solomos, J. 1988: Black youth, racism and the state: the politics of ideology and policy. Stoker, G. , 1988: The politics of local government. Tomlinson, R. and Addleson, M. , editors, 1988: Regional restructuring under apartheid: urban and regional policies in contemporary South Africa. Weiss, M. A. 1987: The rise of the community builders: the American real estate industry and American land planning. White, M. 1987. American neighbourhoods and residential differentiation. Wolch, J. and Dear, M. , editors, 1989: The power of geography, how territory shapes social life.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ball, M. 1983: Housing policy and economic power: the political economy of owner occupation. Cannadine, D. editor, 1982: Patricians, power and politics in nineteenth-century towns. Cornuel, D. and Duriez, B. 1983: Le mirage urbain. Histoire du logement à Roubaix. Dunford, M. and Perrons, D. 1983: The arena of capital. Fainstein, S.S., Fainstein, N.I., Hill, R.C., Judd, D. and Smith, M.P. (with Armstead, P.J. and Keller, M. ) 1983: Restructuring the city. The political economy of urban redevelopment. Feagin, J. R. 1983: The urban real estate game: playing monopoly with real money. Goddard, J. B. and Champion, A. G. editors, 1983: The urban and regional transformation of Britain. Regional Studies Association 1983: Report of an inquiry into regional problems in the United Kingdom. Klaassen, L. H. and Molle, W. T. M. editors, 1983: Industrial mobility and migration in the European Community. Lea, D. A. M. and Chaudhri, D. P. editors, 1983: Rural development and the state: contradictions and dilemmas in developing countries. Lins, J. 1982: Mitbestimmung im Wohnbau Von Technokratenherrschaft zu konkreter Demokratie. Magnusson, W. and Sancton, A. editors, 1983: City politics in Canada. Offer, A. 1981: Property and politics 1870–1914: landownership, law, ideology and urban development in England. Pahl, R.E., Flynn, R. and Buck, N.H. 1983: Structures and processes of urban life Pons, V. and Francis, R. editors, 1983: Urban social research: problems and prospects. Rapoport, A. 1982: The meaning of the built environment. Sarin, M. 1982: Urban planning in the third world: the Chandigarh experience. Taylor, M. and Thrift, N. editors, 1982: The geography of multinationals. Wynot, E.D. 1983: Warsaw between the world wars: profile of the capital city in a developing land, 1918–39.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Ashford D. E. 1982: British dogmatism and French pragmatism: central local policy making in the welfare state. Dear, M.J. and Taylor, S.M. 1982: Not on our street. Hamilton, F.E.I. and Linge, G.J.R. editors, 1983: Spatial analysis, industry and the industrial environment. Healey, P. 1983: Local plans in British land use planning. Kemeny, J. 1983: The privatised city: critical studies in Australian housing and urban structure. Lake, R.W. editor, 1983: Readings in urban analysis: perspectives on urban form and structure. Lundquist, L.J. and Wiktorin, M. editors, 1983: Current trends in British housing. Priemus, H. editor, 1983: Who will pay the housing bill in the eighties? Sims, D. and Wood, M. 1984: Car manufacturing at Linwood: the regional policy issues. Stoney, P.J.M. and Bourn, M. 1984: Industrial development in Merseyside: motor vehicle assembly and the port of Liverpool. Smith, M.P. editor, 1984: Cities in transformation: class, capital and the state. Williams, R.H. editor, 1983: Planning in Europe.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Amis, P. and Lloyd, P. , editors, 1990: Housing Africa's urban poor. Champion, A. , editor, 1989: Counterurbanization: the changing pace and nature of population deconcentration. Johnson, J. and Salt, J. , editors, 1990: Labour migration: the internal geographical mobility of labour in the developed world. Costa, F.J., Dutt, A.K., Ma, L.J.C. and Noble, A.G. , editors 1989: Urbanization in Asia. Spatial dimensions and policy issues. Dröge, F. and Krämer-Badoni, T. 1987: Die Kneipe: zur Soziologie einer Kulturform. Ermisch, J. , editor, 1990: Housing and the national economy. Feagin, J.R. 1988: Free enterprise city: Houston in political and economic perspective. Fritsch, M. and Hull, Ch. , editors, 1987: Arbeitsplatzdynamik und Regionalentwicklung. Garside, P.L. and Hebbert, M. , editors, 1989: British regionalism, 1900–2000. Gyford, J., Leach, S. and Game, C. 1989: The changing politics of local government. Harlander, T., Hater, K. and Meiers, F. 1988: Siedeln in Not: Umbruch von Wohnungspolitik und Siedlungsbau am Ende der Weimarer Republik. Harvey, D. 1989: The condition of postmodernity. Johnston, R. 1989: Environmental problems: nature, economy and state. King, A. 1989: Urbanism, colonialism, and the world-economy: cultural and spatial foundations of the world urban system. King, A. 1989: Global cities: post imperialism and the internationalization of London. Mohan, J. , editor, 1989: The political geography of contemporary Britain. Scott, A. 1988: Metropolis. From the division of labor to urban form. Sills, A., Taylor, G. and Golding, P. 1988: The politics of the urban crisis.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Al-Moosa, A. and McLachlan, K. 1985: Immigrant labour in Kuwait. Balchin, P. 1984: Housing policy: an introduction. Coleman, A. 1985: Utopia on trial. Krupat, E. 1985: People in cities. The urban environment and its effects. Cullingworth, J.B. 1985: Town and country planning in Britain, ninth edition. Self, P. 1982: Planning the urban region. Gottdiener, M. 1985: The social production of urban space. Gregory, D. and Urry, J. editors, 1985: Social relations and spatial structures. Grillo, R.D. 1985: Ideologies and institutions in urban France: the representation of immigrants.