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     

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 Review Essay

Book reviewed in this article: Urban change and conflict: Open University 1982: Urban change and conflict (Course D202). Block 1 The urban perspective : Unit 1 The capitalist city (R. Mellor), Unit 2 Images of the city: their impact upon policy (R. Mellor), Unit 3/4 The scope of urban studies in social science (P. Dun-leavy). Block 2 Market processes I: forces in urban and regional development : Unit 5 City development in a hinterland (M. Bateman), Unit 6 Migration and urban change (R. Wilson), Unit 7 The emergence of a system of cities (C. Brook), Unit 8 The evolving metropolitan area (N. Spence). Block 3 Market processes II: the internal structure of the city : Unit 9 Urban land use and the property development industry (B. Colenutt and C. Hamnett), Unit 10 Industry and employment in urban areas (W. Lever), Unit 11 City centres: condemned or reprieved? (P. Daniels), Unit 12 Urban housing markets (L. McDowell). Block 4 Conflict and stability in urban society : Unit 13 Class, status, location and lifestyle (L. McDowell), Unit 14 Community and the city (A. Cochrane), Unit 15 Race, ethnicity and urban change (C. Lambert and J. Lambert), Unit 16 Is there an urban crisis? (A. Cochrane), Unit 17 Urban government and public services (K. Newton), Unit 18 Political issues and urban policy making (P. Dunleavy). Block 5 State intervention I: planning and market processes : Unit 19 The British planning system (E. Reade), Unit 20 Finance and planning in land and property development (A. Blowers), Unit 21 Regional planning (C. Brook), Unit 22 Local planning (J. Raine), Unit 23 The effects of town and country planning in Britain (E. Reade). Block 6 State intervention II: urban public services and state investment : Unit 24 The state and collective consumption (C. Pickvance), Unit 25 The state as investor (P. Saunders), Unit 26 Public housing (P. Dunleavy), Unit 27 The transport policy crisis (S. Potter), Unit 28a The new town experience (S. Potter and R. Thomas), Unit 28b The inner-city crisis (M. Loney).     

Book Reviews

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.     

Geography as Interdisciplinary Pivot

Books reviewed in this article: Ronan Paddison (ed.), Handbook of urban studies Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (eds.), A companion to the city Michael Dutton, Streetlife China Allen J. Scott (ed.), Global city–regions. Trends, theory, policy     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Barrett, S. and Healey, P. editors, 1985: Land policy: problems and alternatives. Rydin, Y. 1986: Housing land policy. Bradley, T. and Lowe, P. editors, 1984: Locality and rurality: economy and society in rural regions. Cerny, P. and Schain, M. 1985: Socialism, the state and public policy in France. Dennis, R. 1984: English industrial cities of the nineteenth century. Doughty, M. editor, 1986: Building the industrial city. Yelling, J.A. 1986: Slums and slum clearance in Victorian London. Goldsmith, M. and Villadsen, S. editors, 1986: Urban political theory and the management of fiscal stress. Newton, K. and Karran, T.J. 1985: The politics of local expenditure. Keeble, D. and Wever, E. editors, 1986: New firms and regional development in Europe. Storey, D.J. editor, 1985: Small firms in regional economic development: Britain, Ireland and the United States. Rosen, C.M. 1986: The limits of power: great fires and the process of city growth in America. Sancton, A. 1985: Governing the island of Montreal: language differences and metropolitan politics. Short, J.R., Fleming, S. and Witt, S. 1986: Housebuilding, planning and community action. Smyth, H. 1985: Property companies and the construction industry in Britain. Swanstrom, T. 1985: The crisis of growth politics. Szajkowski, B. editor, 1986: Marxist local governments in western Europe and Japan: politics, economics and society. Szelenyi, I. editor, 1984: Cities in recession: critical responses to the urban policies of the New Right. Thomas, A.D. 1986: Housing and urban renewal - residential decay and revitalization in the private sector. White, J. 1986: The worst street in north London. Yago, G. 1984: The decline of transit.     

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

Simmie, James (ed.), Innovation, networks and learning regions? Benko, Georges and Ulf Strohmayer (eds.), Space and social theory. Interpreting modernity and postmodernity Borja, Jordi and Manuel Castells, Local and global: management of cities in the information age Harris, Richard, Unplanned suburbs. Toronto’s American tragedy, 1900–1960 and Hill, Patricia, Dallas: the making of a modern city Wit, Joop W. de, Poverty, policy and politics in Madras slums: dynamics of survival, gender and leadership     

Shorter Reviews

McDowell, Linda Capital culture: gender at work in the city Scott, John Corporate business and capitalist classes Aziz, Abdul Decentral;ised planning. The karnataka experiment O’Toole, Laurence J. Jr. Institutions, policy and outputs for acidification: the case of Hungary     

Book Reviews

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.     

Comptes rendus: The political economy of housing in Britain

Book reviewed in this article: Murie, A., Niner, P. and Watson, C. 1976: Housing policy and the housing system (HPHS). Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series , Volume I, No. I, Houses and people in the city (HPC), 1976. Antipode , Urban political economy issue (UPE) (ed M. Boody) Political Economy of Housing Workshop (PEHW) of the Conference of Socialist Economists 1975: Political economy and the housing question (PEHQ). Political Economy of the Housing Workshop of the Conference of Socialist Economists 1976: Housing and Class in Britain (HCB). National Community Development Project 1976: Whatever happened to council housing? (WHCH). National Community Development Project 1976: Profits against houses: an alternative guide to housing finance (PAH). Marx, K. edn. 1970: Capital, Volume 1. Nell, E. 1972: Economics: the revival of political economy. Broadbent, T. A. 1977: Planning and profit in the urban economy. Centro di Ricerche sui Modi di Produzione (a cura di Enzo Mingione) 1977: L'uso del territorio in Cina. Darke, R. and Walker, R. editors, 1977: Local government and the public. Sewell, W. and Coppock, J. , editors, 1977: Public participation in planning. Hart, D. A. 1976: Strategic planning in London: the rise and fall of the primary road network. Hayden, D. 1976: Seven American utopias: the architecture of communitarian socialism, 1790–1975. C. G. Pickvance , IJURR/RIRUR, Beverley Farm, University of Kent, Canterbury, England.     

Sur l'intervention de l'état dans le financement du logement

Magri, S. 1972: Politique du logement et besoins en main d'?uvre. Pinçon, M. 1976: Les HLM. Structure sociale de la population logée, agglomération de Paris. Harvey, D. 1973: Social justice and the city Roberts, J. T. 1976: General improvement areas. Farnborough: National Community Development Project 1975: The poverty of the improvement programme. Lindberg, L. N., Alford, R., Crouch, C. and Offe, C. , editors, 1975: Stress and contradiction in modern capitalism. Perlman, J. E. 1976: The myth of marginality: urban poverty and politics in Rio de Janeiro. Granelle, J-J. 1975: La valeur du sol urbain et la propriété foncière: le marché des terrains à Paris.     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Bale, John 1993: Sport, space and the city Birchall, J. (ed.) 1992: Housing policy in the 1990s. Cross, Malcolm (ed.) 1992: Ethnic minorities and industrial change in Europe and North America. King, R. (ed.) 1993: Mass migration in Europe: the legacy and the future. Townroe, Peter and Ron Martin (eds) 1992. Regional development in the 1990s: the British Isles in transition.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Aldridge, M. 1979: The British new towns: a programme without a policy. Golany, G. editor, 1978: International urban growth policies: New town contributions. Balchin, P. N. 1979: Housing improvement and social inequality. Zeitz, E. 1979: Private urban renewal. Blowers, A. 1980: The limits of power: the politics of planning policy. CSE State Group 1979: Struggles over the state: Cuts and restructuring in contemporary Britain. Crouch, C. editor, 1979: State and economy in contemporary capitalism. Poulantzas, N. 1976: The capitalist state. Keim, K-D. 1979: Milieu in Städten. Ein Konzept zur Analyse älterer Wohnquartiere. Kuklinski, A. , editor, 1977: Social issues in regional policy and regional planning. Lajugie, J., Delfaud, P. and Lacour, C. 1979: Espace régional et aménagement du territoire. Moseley M. J. 1979: Accessibility: the rural challenge. Moseley, M. J., Harman, R. G., Coles, O. B. and Spencer, M. B. 1977: Rural transport and accessibility, 2 volumes. Mullan, B. 1980: Stevenage Ltd: aspects of the planning and politics of Stevenage New Town 1945–1978. Payne, G. K. 1977: Urban housing in the third world. Kilmartin, L. and Thorns, D. C. 1978: Cities unlimited: the sociology of urban development in Australia and New Zealand. Lawless, P. 1979: Urban deprivation and government initiative.     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Deakin, Nicholas and John Edwards 1993: The enterprise culture and the inner city. Hasegawa, Junichi 1992: Replanning the blitzed city centre: a comparative study of Bristol, Coventry and Southampton 1941–1950. Hayter, Teresa and David Harvey (eds) 1993: The factory and the city: the story of the Cowley automobile workers in Oxford. Rydin, Yvonne 1993: The British planning system: an introduction.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article: Christopher Mele, Selling the Lower East Side: culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City Frank Moulaert, Globalization and integrated area development in European cities Linda McDowell, Gender, identity and place: understanding feminist geographies Mike Davis, Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the US city Graeme Evans, Cultural planning: an urban renaissance? Ian Gough and Gunnar Olofsson (eds.), Capitalism and social cohesion: essays on exclusion and integration Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American project: the rise and fall of a modern ghetto     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Allen, J. and L. McDowell, 1989: Landlords and property; social relations in the private rented sector. Brake, K. 1988: Phönix in der Asche - New York verändert seine Stadtstruktur. Bratt, R. 1989: Rebuilding a low-income housing policy. Castells, M. 1989: The informational city. Chase-Dunn, C. 1989: Global formation: structures of the world-economy. Coleman, W. and H. Jacek (eds) 1989: Regionalism, business interests and public policy Damer, S. 1989: From Moorepark to Wine Alley - The rise and fall of a Glasgow housing estate. Gottdiener, M. and N. Komninos (eds), 1989: Capitalist development and crisis theory: accumulation, regulation and spatial restructuring. Hardoy, J. and D. Satterthwaite, 1989: Squatter citizen: life in the urban third world. Hirson, B. 1989: Yours from the Union: class and community struggles in South Africa 1930–1947. Lai, B.B. 1990: The romance of culture in an urban civilization: Robert E. Park on race and ethnic relations in cities. Mackenzie, S. 1969: Visible histories: women and environments in a post-war British city. Maguire, M. 1990: Work, employment and new technology: a case study of multinational investment in Northern Ireland. Montgomery, J. and Å. Thornley (eds), 1990: Radical planning initiatives: new directions for urban planning in the 1990s. Pennington, S. and B. Westover, 1989: A hidden workforce: homeworkers in England, 1850–1985. Prigge, W. and W. Kaib (eds), 1988: Sozialer Wohnungsbau im internationalen Vergleich. Schultz, S.K. 1989: Constructing urban culture: American cities and city planning, 1800–1920. Slater, D. 1989: Territory and state power in Latin America: the Peruvian case. Stewart, J. and G. Stoker (eds) 1989: The future of local government. Ward, D. 1989: Poverty, ethnicity, and the American city, 1840–1925: changing conceptions of the slum and the ghetto.     

Book Reviews

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.