Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Esping-Andersen, Gosta (ed.) 1993 Changing classes: stratification and mobility in post-industrial societies. Fainstein, Susan S. 1994: The city builders: property, politics, and planning in London and New York. Heinelt, Hubert and Margit Mayer (eds) 1992: Politik in europäischen Städten: Fallstudien zur Bedeutung lokaler Politik. Mollenkopf, John Hull 1992: The phoenix in the ashes: the rise and fall of the Koch coalition in New York City politics. Fainstein, Susan S. (1994) The city builders: property, politics and planning in London and New York. Power, Anne 1993: Hovels to high rise: state housing in Europe since 1850. Rothblatt, D.N. and A. Sancton (eds) 1993: American-Canadian metropolitan intergovernmental governance perspectives. Squires, Gregory D. (ed.) 1992: From redlining to reinvestment: community responses to urban disinvestment.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Forester, John 1993: Critical theory, public policy and planning practice: toward a critical pragmatism. Gilbert, Alan 1993: In search of a home: rental and shared housing in Latin America. Helms, Hans G. (ed.) 1992: Die Stadt als Gabentisch. Beobachtungen der aktuellen Städtebauentwicklung (zwischen Manhattan und Berlin-Marzahn). Mathey, Kosta (ed.) 1992: Beyond self-help housing. Sonenshein, Raphael, J. 1993: Politics in black and white: race and power in Los Angeles.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Callinicos, Luli 1993: A place in the city: the Rand on the eve of apartheid. Friedmann, John 1992: Empowerment: the politics of alternative development. Fujita, Kuniko and Hill, Richard Child (eds) 1993: Japanese cities in the world economy. Imrie, Rob and Thomas, Huw (eds) 1993: British urban policy and the Urban Development Corporations. Wilson, William Julius (ed.) 1993: The ghetto underclass: social science perspectives.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Dickens, Peter 1992: Society and nature: towards a green social theory. Katznelson, Ira 1992: Marxism and the city. Massey, Doreen, Paul Quintas and David Wield 1991: High-tech fantasies: science parks in society, science and space. Matsumoto, Koji 1991: The rise of the Japanese corporate system. Mollenkopf, John H. and Manuel Castells (eds) 1991: Dual city: restructuring New York. Norton, Alan and K. Novy (eds) 1990: Soziale Wohnpolitik der 90er Jahre. Sayer, Andrew and Richard Walker 1992: The new social economy: reworking the division of labour. Smith, David M. (ed.) 1992: The apartheid city and beyond: urbanization and social change in South Africa. Drakakis-Smith, David (ed.) 1992: Urban and regional change in Southern Africa.     

Shorter Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Blackman, Tim 1991: Planning Belfast. Budd, Leslie and Sam Whimster (eds) 1992: Global finance and urban living: a study of metropolitan change. London Planning Advisory Committee (1991) London: World city moving into the 21st century. Burawoy, M., A. Burton, A.A. Ferguson, K.J. Fox, J. Gamson, N. Gartrell, L. Hurst, C. Kurzman, L. Salzinger, J. Schiffman and S. Ui 1991: Ethnography unbound: power and resistance in the modern metropolis. Caves, Roger W. 1992: Land use planning: the ballot box revolution. Paul Cloke (ed.) 1992: Policy and change in Thatcher's Britain. Gray, Ian 1992: Politics in place: social power relations in an Australian country town. Isin, Engin 1992: Cities without citizens. Robins, Kevin (ed.) 1992: Understanding information: business, technology and geography. Simon, David 1992: Cities, capital and development: African cities in the world economy. Western, John 1992: A passage to England: Barbadian Londoners speak of home. Wolman, Harold and Michael Goldsmith 1992: Urban politics and policy: a comparative approach.     

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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Frisken, Frances (ed.) 1994: The changing Canadian metropolis: a public policy perspective. Lapeyronnie, Didier, (1993) L'individu et les minorités — la France et l'Angleterre face à leurs immigrés.     

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

Book reviewed in this article: Anderson Jeffrey J. 1992: The territorial imperative: pluralism, corporatism and economic crisis. Dossal, Mariam 1991: Imperial designs and Indian realities: the planning of Bombay City 1845–1875. Hamel, Pierre 1991: Action collective et démocratie locale: les mouvements urbains Montréalais. Könen, Ralf 1990: Wohnungsnot und Obdachlosigkeit im Sozialstaat. Lundqvist, Lennart J. 1991: Dislodging the welfare state? Housing and privatization in four European nations. Lundqvist, Lennart J. (ed.) 1991: Policy, organization, tenure. A comparative history of housing in small welfare states. Marsden, Terry, Philip Lowe and Sarah Whatmore (eds) 1992: Labour and locality: uneven development and the rural labour process. Taylor-Gooby, Peter 1991: Social change, social welfare and social science.     

Book reviews

Harloe, Michael The people's home? Social rented housing in Europe & America Hitz, Keil, Lehrer, Ronneberger, Schmid and Wolff (eds.) Capitales Fatales: Urbanisierung und Politik in den Finanzmetropolen Frankfurt und Zürich Ascher, François (ed.) Le logement en questions Shapira, Philip, Ian Masser and David W. Edgington (eds.) Planning for cities and regions in Japan     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Eade, John (ed.) Living the global city: globalization as local process Green, Charles (ed.) Globalization and survival in the black diaspora: the new urban challenge Kohler-Koch, B. et alInteraktive Politik in Europa: Regionen im Netzwerk der Integration [Interactive politics in Europe: the regions in the network of European integration] Sennett, Richard The corrosion of character: the personal consequences of work in the new capitalism Flyvbjerg, Bent Rationality and power. Democracy in practice Cybriwsky, Roman Tokyo: the Shogun’s city at the twenty-first century Hebbert, Michael London Pineo, Ronn and James A. Baer (eds.) Cities of hope: people, protests, and progress in urbanizing Latin America, 1870–1930 Fyfe, Nicholas R. (ed.) Images of the street. Planning, identity and control in public space Duffy, Francis, with contributions from Kenneth Powell The new office     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Bacher, John C. 1993: Keeping to the market place: the evolution of Canadian housing policy. Carnoy, M., M. Castells, S. Cohen and F.H. Cardoso 1993: The new global economy in the information age. Grabher, Gernot (ed.) 1993: The embedded firm: on the socioeconomics of industrial networks. Williamson, O. (1975) Markets and hierarchies.     

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?     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Brownill, S. 1990: Developing London's docklands: another great planning disaster? Campbell, M. (ed.) 1990: Local economic policy. Cloke, P. and J. Little 1990: The rural state? Limits to planning in rural society. Greed, C. 1990: Surveying sisters: women in a traditional male profession. Low, Nicholas P. 1990: Planning, politics and the state: political foundations of planning thought. Shidlo, G. 1990: Social policy in a non-democratic regime: the case of public housing in Brazil. Sachs, C. 1990: São Paulo: politiques publiques et habitat populaire. Thomas, H. and P. Healey with I. Crawley, S. Essex, S. Hendler, T. Kitchen, D. Nicholson, B. Pell, R. Swinbourne, N. Tibbs and J. Underwood 1991: Dilemmas of planning practice.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Castells, Manuel and Hall, Peter 1994: Technopoles of the world: the making of 21st century industrial complexes. Blanke, B. (ed.) 1991: Staat und Stadt. Systematische, vergleichende und problemorientierte Analysen ‘dezentraler’ Politik. Politische Vierteljahresschritt, special issue 22. Vale, Lawrence J. 1992: Architecture, power, and national identity.     

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     

SHORTER REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Dickens, P., 1990: Urban sociology: society, locality and human nature. Fothergill, S. and N. Guy, 1990: Retreat from the regions: corporate change and the closure of factories. Frieden, B.J. and L.B. Sagalyn, 1989: Downtown Inc.: how America rebuilds cities. Galt, A.H., 1991: Far from the church bells: settlement and society in an Apulian town. Hummon, D.M., 1990: Commonplaces: community ideology and identity in American culture. Keat, R. and N. Abercrombie (eds), 1991: Enterprise culture. Levine, M.V., 1990: The reconquest of Montreal: language policy and social change in a bilingual city. Lo, C., 1990: Small property versus big government. Phizacklea, A., 1990: Unpacking the fashion industry: gender, racism and class in production. Rodenstein, M., 1988: ‘Mehr Licht, mehr Luft’: Gesundheitskonzepte im Städtebau seit 1750. Stohr, W.B. (ed.), 1990: Global challenge and local response: initiatives for economic regeneration in contemporary Europe.     

Transformation of Urban Life in China

Tang, Wenfang and William Parish Chinese urban life under reform: the changing social contract. Dutton, Michael Streetlife China Yang, Mayfair M‐H. (ed.) Spaces of their own: women’s public sphere in transnational China Davis, Deborah S. (ed.) The consumer revolution in urban China     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Held, David, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt and Jonathan Perraton Global transformations: politics, economics and culture Lin, George C.S. Red capitalism in South China Keyder, Ç. (ed.) Istanbul: between the global and the local JGlasser, Irene and Rae Bridgman Braving the street: the anthropology of homelessness Vanhove, Norbert Regional policy: a European approach Downey, John and Jim McGuigan (eds.) Technocities Malbon, Ben Clubbing: dancing, ecstasy and vitality Hedlund, Stefan Russia’s `market’ economy. A bad case of predatory capitalism Chavez, John R. Eastside landmark: a history of the East Los Angeles Community Union 1968–1993 Butler, Ruth and Hester Parr (eds) Mind and body spaces: geographies of illness, impairment and disability Germaine, Annick and Damaris Rose Montréal: the quest for a metropolis Narotzky, Susana New directions in economic anthropology     

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.