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Urban Geography
(ISSN 0272-3638) |
Guidelines | Books Received
Urban Geography publishes reviews of recent books and monographs which contribute to the advancement of knowledge in urban geography. The Editorial Board views the appraisal of new books in urban geography and related fields as an extremely useful contribution to scholarship. See Brian Berry's Canons of Reviewing Revisited (PDF format, Size - 16 KB) for additional guidance and suggestions.
Suggestions on Contents. A book review for Urban Geography should accomplish three things:
- Describe the nature, content, scope, and purpose of the book and its place in the literature of the subject field.
- Analyze the contents and indicate the functions and use of the book. Shortcomings may be noted as appropriate.
- Evaluate in a thoughtful and objective manner the success of the book in achieving its stated goal(s). Indicate its contribution to the field.
Details for Reviewers. It is recommended that reviewers will:
- Advise the book review editor if the book should not be reviewed or if the reviewer does not feel qualified to undertake the review. In both cases the book should be returned to the book review editor immediately.
- Where two or more books may be reviewed jointly, employ a comparative approach in evaluating their contents and contributions.
- Avoid digressive essays; confine comments to the book under evaluation.
- Avoid detailed descriptions of content and lengthy quotations from the book. Where an extended quote is necessary, it should be indented, and a page reference cited in parentheses following the quote.
- Limit the length of the book review to approximately 1000 words.
Format. Reviews should be submitted as an e-mail attachment in either Corel WordPerfect, Microsoft Word, or ASCII format. The review should begin with the title of the book, followed by author, publisher, year of publication, etc. An example follows:
Reviews should be completed within four months. Publishing deadlines do not permit return to reviewers of galleys or page proofs. Reviews normally will be edited only for style. Reviewers have freedom of expression in the substance of their reviews.
All correspondence concerning book reviews should be addressed to:
Department of Geography
University of Illinois
607 South Matthews Avenue
220 Davenport Hall
Urbana, IL 61801
e-mail: dwilson2@illinois.edu
Those interested in reviewing one of the following titles should send the Book Review Editor, David Wilson, an e-mail by clicking on the "Interested in reviewing" link.
Agergaard, J., Fold, N., and Gough, K., 2010. Rural-Urban Dynamics: Livelihoods, Mobility, and Markets in African and Asian Frontiers. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]
Bakker, K. 2010. Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and The World's Urban Water Crisis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Barber P. and Harper T. 2010. Magnificent Maps Power, Propaganda and Art. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Black, W. R., 2010. Sustainable Transportation: Problems and Solutions. New York, NY: Guilford Publications. [Interested in reviewing]
Bourne, L., Hutton, T., Shearmur, R., and Simmons, J., 2011. Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change. Oxford Univ. Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Brash, J., 2011. Bloomberg's New York: Class and Governance in the Luxury City. Univ. Georgia Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Bridge, G. & Watson, S., 2011. The New Blackwell Companion to The City. Wiley-Blackwell. [Interested in reviewing]
Brown, M. & Morrill, R., 2011. Seattle Geographies. Univ. Washington Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Brown-Saracino, J., 2010. A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Chopra, P., 2011. A Joint Enterprise: Indian Elites and the Making of British Bombay. Univ. Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Clavel, P. 2010. Activists in City Hall. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Connolly, J. 2010. An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Corcoran, M. Grey, J. and Peillon, M. 2010. Suburban Affiliations: Social Relations in the Greater Dublin Area. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Cybriwsky, R., 2011. Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City. Univ. Georgia Press. [Interested in reviewing]
de Souza Briggs, X., Popkin, S., and Goering, J., 2010. Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty. Oxford Univ. Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Edensor, T., Leslie, D., Millington, S., & Rantisi, N., 2010. Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]
Elfenbein, J., Hollowak, T., and Nix, E., 2011. Baltimore '68. Temple University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Fagan, A. 2010. The Atlas of Human Rights: Mapping Violations of Freedom Around the Globe. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Fairfield, J. D., 2010. The Public and its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Farías, I., and Bender, T., 2010. Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]
Fleischer, F., 2010. Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China. Univ. Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Geddes, R., 2011. The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in US Transportation Infrastructure. Rowman Littlefield. [Interested in reviewing]
Gibson, K., 2011. Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York's Streets. NYU Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Gillette, H. 2010. Civitas By Design: Building Better Communities From the Garden City to the New Urbanism. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Goldsmith, W. and Blakely, E. 2010. Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Graham, S., 2010. Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]
Haar, S., 2011. The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago. Univ. Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Hall, T. 2010. The Life and Death of The Australian Backyard. Collingwood, Australia: Csiro Publishing. [Interested in reviewing]
Harris, J. and Williams, R., 2011. Regenerating Culture and Society: Architecture, Art, and Urban Style within the Global Politics of City-Branding. Liverpool Univ. Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Healey, M., 2011. The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan After the 1944 Earthquake. Duke. [Interested in reviewing]
Herod, A. 2011. Scale. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]
High, S., 2010. Occupied St. John's: A Social History of a City at War, 1939-1945. McGill-Queen's University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Hsing, Y-T., 2010. The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China. Oxford Univ. Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Hurley, A. 2010. Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Judd, D., and Simpson, D., 2011. The City Revisited: Urban Theory From Chicago, Los Angeles, New York. Univ. Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Kihato, C. Massoumi, M. Ruble, B. Subiros, P. and Garland, A. 2010. Urban Diversity: Space, Culture and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide. Washington D.C: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Krieger, M., 2011. Urban Tomographies. Univ. Pennsylvania Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Kusno, A., 2010. The Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia. Durham, NC: Duke University. [Interested in reviewing]
Long, J., 2010. Weird City: Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Marcelli, E., Williams, C., & Joassart, P., 2010. Informal Work in Developed Nations. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]
McCann, E. and Ward, K., 2011. Mobile Urbanism: Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age. Univ. Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Mort, F. 2010. Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society. Harford, CT: Yale University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Murray, M., 2011. City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg. Duke. [Interested in reviewing]
Nijman, J., 2010. Miami: Mistress of the Americas. Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. [Interested in reviewing]
O'Neill, K.L. and Thomas, K., 2011. Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala. Duke. [Interested in reviewing]
Polèse, M., 2010. The Wealth & Poverty of Regions. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Ren, X., 2011. Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China. Univ. Chicago Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Robinson, C., 2011. Beside One's Self: Homelessness Felt and Lived. Syracuse Univ. Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Roodhouse, S., 2010. Cultural Quarters: Principles and Practice. Intellect Books. [Interested in reviewing]
Schiller, N.G. and Caglar, A., 2011. Locating Migration: Rescaling Cities and Migrants. Cornell. [Interested in reviewing]
Schwartz, A., 2010. Housing Policy in the United States (2nd ed). Taylor & Francis. [Interested in reviewing]
Sherman, R. 2010. L.A. Under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Smith, P., 2010. Mythogeography: A Guide to Walking Sideways. Devon. UK: Triarchy Press Ltd. [Interested in reviewing]
Soja, E. W., 2010. Seeking Spatial Justice. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Swanson, K., 2010. Begging as a Path to Progress: Indigenous Women and Children and the Struggle for Ecuador's Urban Spaces. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Tongson, K., 2011. Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. NYU Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Visser, R., 2010. Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. Durham, NC: Duke University. [Interested in reviewing]
Wallis, E. V., 2010. Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles 1880-1930. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Wojcik, P., 2010. The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945-1975. Duke. [Interested in reviewing]
Woldoff, R., 2011. White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood. Cornell. [Interested in reviewing]
Wood, D. 2010. Rethinking the Power of Maps. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. [Interested in reviewing]
Zhang, L. 2010. In Search of Paradise: Middle-Class Living In a Chinese Metropolis. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [Interested in reviewing]
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