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: 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.     

Shorter Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Harding, Alan, Parkinson, Michael, Dawson, Jon and Evans, Richard (eds) 1994: European cities towards 2000: profiles, policies and prospects. Wolch, Jennifer and Michael Dear 1993: Malign neglect: homelessness in an American city.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

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     

History,politics and the local state

Book reviewed in this article: Cockburn, C. 1977: The local state. Management of cities and people. Hennock, E. P. 1973: Fit and proper persons. Ideal and realrty in nineteenth century government. Newton, K. 1976: Second city politics. Democratic processes and decision-making in Birmingham.     

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.     

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: 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.     

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.     

Books Reviews

Williamson, O. E. (Ed.). Organization Theory: From Chester Barnard to the Present and Beyond, Expanded Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. pp. 268, £14.50 pb (Michael Rowlinson). Boisot, Max H. Information Space. A Framework for Learning in Organizations, Institutions and Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 1995. pp. 550, ISBN 0-415-11490-X (Nathalie N. Mitev). Tweedale, Geoffrey. Steel City: Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Technology in Sheffield 1743--1993. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. pp. xiv, 436 (Elisabeth Wilson). Orlikowski, Wanda, J., Walsham, Geoff, Jones, Matthew R. and Degross, Janice, I. (Eds). Information Technology and Changes in Organizational Work. London: Chapman Hall, 1996. pp. 443, ISBN 0-412-64010-4 (Richard Hull). Scrivens, Ellie. Accreditation: Protecting the Professional or the Consumer? Buckingham: Open University Press (Jenny Lodge).     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bagnasco, Armando 1994: Fatti sociali formati nello spazio. Cinque lezioni di sociologies urbana e regionale. Mercedes Gonzalez de la Rocha 1994: The resources of poverty: women and survival in a Mexican city. Scott, A. 1994: Technopolis: high-technology industry and regional development in southern California. Topalov, Christian 1994: La naissance du chômeur, 1880–1910. Albin Michel, collection L'évolution de l'humanité. 160F. Castel, Robert 1995: Les métamorphoses de la question sociale, une chronique du salariat.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: McDougall, Harold 1993: Black Baltimore: a new theory of community. Pixley, Jocelyn 1993: Citizenship and employment: investigating post-industrial options:     

Evolving Game Theory

Jörgen W. Weibull (1995) Evolutionary Game Theory. MIT Press. £18.50 $30 xv+265 pp. Ken Binmore, Alan Kirman and Piero Tani (eds) (1993) Frontiers of Game Theory. MIT Press. £40.50 $47.50 350 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Bleitrach, D. and Chenu, A. 1979: L'usine et la vie: luttes régionales. Jeffrey, N. and Caldwell, M. editors, 1977: Planning and urbanism in China. Progress in Planning, volume 8, part 2. Murphey, R. 1980: The fading of the Maoist vision. London: Methuen. Mingione, E. 1981: Social conflict and the city. Wallerstein, I. 1979: The capitalist world economy. Joyce, P. 1980: Work, society and politics. Pumain, D. and Saint-Julien, T. 1978: Les dimensions du changement urbain. Short, J. 1981: Public expenditure and taxation in the UK regions. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 1980: Special issue on women and the American city, volume 5, number 3. Rothblatt, D.N., Carr, D.J. and Sprague, J. 1979: The suburban environment and women. Stretton, H. 1978: Planning in rich and poor countries. Hall, P. 1966: The world cities. Sutcliffe, A. editor, 1980: The rise of modern urban planning. Townroe, P.M. and Roberts, N.J. 1980: Local-external economies for British manufacturing industry. Watts, H.D. 1980: The large industrial enterprise: some spatial perspectives. Ungerson, C. and Karn, V. editors, 1980: The consumer experience of housing: cross-national perspectives.     

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

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: Caulfield, Jon (1994) City form and everyday life: Toronto's gentrification and critical social practice. Curtin, Chris, Hastings Donnan and Thomas M. Wilson (eds) 1993: Irish urban cultures. Garrahan, Philip and Paul Stewart (eds) 1994: Urban change and renewal: the paradox of place. Hasson, Shlomo 1993: Urban social movements in Jerusalem: the protest of the second generation. Margolis, Maxine L. 1994: Little Brazil, an ethnography of Brazilian immigrants in New York City.     

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.