Shorter Reviews

Books reviewed Kleinman, Mark, Housing, welfare and the state in Europe. A comparitive analysis of Britain, France and Germany Kim, Won Bae, Mike Douglass and Sang-Choe (eds.), Culture and the city in East Asia Toepel, Kathleen, Zusammenwirken von nationaler und europäischer Regionapolitik in den neuen Bundesländern: eine kritische Bilanz Blowers, Andrew and Bob Evans (eds.) Town planning into the 21st century     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Amin, Ash (ed.) 1994: Post-fordism. A reader. Week, Michael 1995: Die Kultur der Kulturverwaltung: eine hermeneutische Analyse von Biographie und Verwaltungshandeln. Forest, Ray and Alan Murie (eds.) 1995: Housing and family wealth: comparative international perspectives. Hasson, S. and D. Ley 1994: Neighbourhood organizations and the welfare state.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Morse, R.M. and J.E. Hardoy (eds.) 1992: Rethinking the Latin American city. Dunford, M. and G. Kafkalas (eds.) 1992: Cities and regions in the new Europe: the global-local interplay and spatial development strategies. Lowe, P., T. Marsden and S. Whatmore (eds.) 1994: Regulating agriculture. Whatmore, S., T. Marsden and P. Lowe (eds.) 1994: Gender and rurality. Gregory, D. 1994: Geographical imaginations.     

Grounded Speculations on Theories of the City and the City of Theory

Books reviewed in this article: G. LeClerc, R. Villa and M. Dear, (eds.) La vida Latina en L.A.: urban Latino cultures M. Featherstone, and S. Lash (eds.) Spaces of culture: city — nation — world M. Dear, The postmodern urban condition B. Meyer, and P. Geschiere (eds.) Globalization and identity: dialectics of flow and closure S. Lash, Another modernity, a different rationality R. Beauregard, and S. Body‐Gendrot (eds.) The urban moment: cosmopolitanessays of the late‐20th‐century city     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: H. Barton, (ed.) Sustainable communities: the potential for eco‐neighbourhoods J.A. Elliot, An introduction to sustainable development M. Kenny, and J. Meadowcroft, Planning sustainability D. Satterthwaite, The Earthscan reader in sustainable cities Doreen Massey, John Allen and Steve Pile, (eds.) City worlds Steve Pile, Christopher Brook and Gerry Mooney (eds.) Unruly cities?: order/disorder John Allen, Doreen Massey and Michael Pryke (eds.) Unsettling cities: movement/settlement Klaus Ronneberger, Stephen Lanz and Walther Jahn Die Stadt als Beute Michael Edwards, Future positive: international co‐operation in the 21st century Nicole May, Pierre Veltz, José Landrieu and Thérèse Spector, (eds.) La ville éclatée Ivan Szelenyi, (ed.) Privatizing the land. Rural political economy in post‐communist societies Yue‐man Yeung, (ed.) Urban development in Asia: retrospect and prospect Andrew Herod, Gearoid O Tuathail and Susan Roberts, (eds.) An unruly world? Globalization, governance and geography Peter Ennals, and Deryck W. Holdsworth, Homeplace. The making of the Canadian dwelling over three centuries Anastasia Loukaitou‐Sideris, and Tridib Banerjee, Urban design downtown: poetics and politics of form Cecile Jackson, and Ruth Pearson, (eds.) Feminist visions of development: gender analysis and policy     

Book Reviews

Harvey, David, Justice, Nature & the Geography of Difference Jeffrey, Charlie, (ed.) The Regional Dimension of the European Union. Towards a Third Level in Europe? Keating, Michael and Jeffrey Loughlin (eds.)The Political Economy of Regionalism Le Galès, Patrick and Christian Lequesne, (eds.) Les Paradoxes des régions en Europe Grabner, Gernot and David Stark, (eds.) Restructuring networks in post-socialism. Legacies, linkages and localities Taylor, Ian, Karen Evans and Penny Fraser, A Tale of Two Cities: Global Change, Local Feeling and Everyday Life in the North of England. A Study in Manchester and Sheffield Caulfield, Jon and Linda Peake, (eds.) City Lives and City Forms. Critical Research and Canadian Urbanism Turnbull, Geoffrey K., Urban Consumer Theory Barringer, Herbert, Robert W. Gardner and Michael Levin Asians and Pacific Islanders in the United States Hardy, Sally, Mark Hart, Albrechts Louis and Anastasios Katos An Enlarged Europe: Regions in Competition?     

On the corner of diverse/reverse globalization: the third stage of global 'urban studies'

Books reviewed in this article: Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen (eds.) 2000:, Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen (eds.) 2002:, Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space.     

Social movements and globalization

Pierre Hamel, Henri Lustiger‐Thaler and Margit Mayer (eds.) Urban movements in a globalizing world John Guidry, Michael Kennedy and Mayer Zald (eds.) Globalizations and social movements: culture, power, and the transnational public sphere     

Book Reviews

Brun, Jacques and Catherine Rhein (eds.) La ségrégation dans la ville: concepts et mesures Smith, Michael Peter and Joe R. Feagin (eds.) The bubbling cauldron: race, ethnicity and the urban crisis MacShane, Clay (ed.) Down the asphalt path: the automobile and the American city McAndrew, John P. Urban usurpation — from friar estates to industrial estates in a Philippine hinterland     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Hugh Atkinson and Stuart Wilks‐Heeg Local government from Thatcher to Blair: the politics of creative autonomy Alistair Cole and Peter John Local governance in England and France Gertjan Dijkink and Hans Knippenberg (eds.) The territorial factor: political geography in a globalising world André Donzel Marseille: l'expérience de la cité John Dunning (ed.) Regions, globalization, and the knowledge based economy Jonathan Glancey Bread and circuses Brian Richards Future transport in cities Marco Buti, Daniele Franco and Lucio R. Pench (eds.) The welfare state in Europe: challenges and reforms Kenneth Kolson Big plans: the allure and folly of urban design Sako Musterd and Willem Salet (eds.) Amsterdam human capital Martin Kronauer Exklusion: Die Gefährdung des Sozialen im hochentwickelten Kapitalismus     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, (eds.) Cities for citizens: planning and the rise of civil society in a global age Eric C. Schneider, Vampires, dragons and Egyptian kings: youth gangs in post‐war New York Erhard Berner, Defending a place in the city: localities and the struggle for urban land in Metro Manila Ali Madanipour, Tehran: the making of a metropolis Linda Tuhiwai‐Smith, Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples Nicholas Low and Brendan Glee, Justice, society and nature: an exploration of political ecology Rosa Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambiniand and Cathy Bryan, (eds.) Cyberdemocracy: technology, cities and civic networks Maf Smith, John Whitelegg and Nick Williams, Greening the built environment Michael V. McGinnis, Bioregionalism Andrew Leyshon, David Matless and George Revill, (eds.) The place of music     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Biorcio, Roberto La Padania Promessa Cartocci, Roberto Fra Lega e Chiesa Diamanti, Ilvo La Lega: Geografia, Storia e Sociologia di un nuovo Soggetto Politico Diamanti, Ilvo Il Male del Nord: Lega, Localismo, Secessione Magatti, Mauro Tra Disordine e Scisma Mannheimer, Renato, (ed.) La Lega Lombarda Hebbert, Michael London Mazzette, Antonietta and Giancarlo Rovati (eds.) La Protesta dei ’forti”: Leghe del Nord e Partito Sardo d’Azione Pajetta, Giovanna Il Grande Camaleonte: Episodi, Passioni, Avventure del Leghismo Vicercati, Daniele I Lombardi alla nuova Crociati Veltz, Pierre Mondialism Villes et Territoires: L’economie Archipel Abromeit, Heidrun Democracy in Europe. Legitimising Politics in a Non‐state Polity Dietz, Henry and Gil Shidlo, (eds.) Urban Democratic Elections in Latin America Harrison, Bennett and Marcus Weiss Workforce Development Networks: Community‐based Organizations and Regional Alliances Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis. Race and Inequality in Postwar Detriot Wilford, Rich and Robert L. Miller (eds.) Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition Jones, G.V. and P. Visaria Urbanisation in Large Developing Countries. China, Indonesia, Brazil and India Buiseret, David (eds.) Envisioning the City: Six Studies in Urban Cartography Taylor, Peter J. Modernities: A Geohistorical Interpretation     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Anselin, L. and R.J.G.M. Florax (eds.) 1995: New directions in spatial econometrics. Herbert, David T. (ed.) 1995: Heritage, tourism and society. Baldassare, Mark (ed.) 1994: The Los Angeles riots: lessons for the urban future. Wacquant, Loic J.D. (1994) The new urban color line: the state and the fate of the ghetto in postfordist America. In C. Calhoun (ed.), Social theory and the politics of identity Leresche, Jean-Philippe and René Levy (eds.) 1995: La Suisse et la coopération transfrontalière: repli ou redéploiement?     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Clarke, Colin, Ceri Peach and Steven Vertovec (eds) 1990: South Asians overseas: migration and ethnicity. Gerecke, Kent (ed.) 1991: The Canadian city. Germain, Annick (ed.) 1991: L'Amènagement urbain: promesses et défis. Heinze, Rolf G. and Claus Offe (eds) 1990: Formen der Eigenarbeit. Theorie, Empirie, Vorschläge.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Bernard Jouve and Christian Lefèvre, (eds.) Villes, métropoles. Les nouveaux territoires du politique Sheridan Bartlett, Roger Hart, David Satterthwaite, Ximena de la Barra and Alfredo Missair, Cities for children: children's rights, poverty and urban management Daniel J. Monti Jr., The American city: a social & cultural history Andrew E.G. Jonas and David Wilson, (eds.) The urban growth machine: critical perspectives two decades later Dieter Dettke, (ed.) The challenges of globalization for Germany's social democracy: a political agenda for the 21st century Gösta Esping‐Andersen, Social foundations of postindustrial economies Michael Mortimore and William M. Adams Working the Sahel: environment and society in northern Nigeria> Stefan Hedlund, Russia's ‘market’ economy. A bad case of predatory capitalism Alexander Reichl, Reconstructing Times Square: politics and culture in urban development David Byrne, Social exclusion OECD, The response of higher education institutions to regional needs Felix Driver and David Gilbert, (eds.) Imperial cities: landscape, display and identity     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Stuart Aitken Geographies of young people: the morally contested spaces of identity Akel Ismail Kahera Deconstructing the American mosque: space, gender, and aesthetics Eric Klinenberg Heatwave: a social autopsy of disaster in Chicago Louise Chawla (ed.) Growing up in an urbanising world Richard Tomlinson, Robert A. Beauregard, Lindsay Bremner and Xolela Mangcu (eds.) Emerging Johannesburg: perspectives on the postapartheid city Bent Flyvbjerg Making social science matter David J. Myers and Henry A. Dietz (eds.) Capital city politics in Latin America: democratization and empowerment Dennis R. Judd (ed.) The infrastructure of play Dominique Malaquais Architecture, pouvoir et dissidence au Cameroun Lydia Morris Managing migration. Civic stratification and migrants' rights     

Revitalizing Inner‐City Neighborhoods in the United States

Books reviewed in this article: Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens ,(eds.) Urban problems andcommunity development Michael R. Greenberg, Restoring America's neighborhoods: how local people make a difference W. Dennis Keating and Norman Krumholz, (eds.) Rebuilding urban neighborhoods: achievements, opportunities and limits John Kromer, Neighborhood recovery: reinvestment policy for the new hometown William Peterman, Neighborhood planning and community‐based development: the potential and limits of grassroots action     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Behnken, I., M. du Bois-Reymond and J. Zinnecker 1989: Stadtgeschichte als Kindheitsgeschichte: Lebensraüme von Groβstadtkindern in Deutschland und Holland um 1900. Benton, L. 1990: Invisible factories: the informal economy and industrial development in Spain. King, D. and J. Pierre (eds) 1990: Challenges to local government. Pickvance, C. and E. Preteceille (eds) 1990: State restructuring and local power: a comparative perspective. Lowe, P. and M. Bodiguel (eds) 1990: Rural studies in Britain and France. Thornley, A. 1990: Urban planning under Thatcherism: the challenge of the market.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin (eds) After the World Trade Center. Rethinking New York City Deepak Narang Sawhney (ed.) Unmasking L.A.: third worlds and the city Francesco lo Piccolo and Huw Thomas (eds) Knights and castles — minorities and urban regeneration Peter Roberts and Hugh Sykes (eds) Urban regeneration: a handbook Leslie M. Harris In the shadow of slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863 John Doling and Janet Ford (eds) Globalisation and home ownership: experiences in eight member states of the European Union William J. Mitchell ME++, the cyborg self and the networked city Bob Jessop The future of the capitalist state     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Abu‐Lughod, Janet, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s global cities Bascom, Jonathan, Losing place: refugees, populations and rural transformations in East Africa Crawford, J.H., Carfree cities Dunn Jr., James A., Driving forces: the automobile, its enemies, and the politics of mobility Hill, Dilys M., Urban policy and politics in Britain Beauregard, Robert A. and Sophie Body‐Gendrot, (eds.) The urban moment: cosmopolitan essays on the late‐20th‐century city Sardar, Ziauddin, The consumption of Kuala Lumpar Caldeira, Teresa P.R., City of walls: crime, segregation, and citizenship in São Paulo Freeman, Carla, High tech and high heels in the global economy Judd, Dennis R. and Susan S. Fainstein, (eds.) The tourist city Proctor, James D. and David M. Smith, (eds.) Geography and ethics: journeys in a moral terrain