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Urban Geography
(ISSN 0272-3638)

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Guidelines  |  Books Received

Guidelines

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:

1. Describe the nature, content, scope, and purpose of the book and its place in the literature of the subject field.

2. Analyze the contents and indicate the functions and use of the book. Shortcomings may be noted as appropriate.

3. 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:

1. 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.

2. Where two or more books may be reviewed jointly, employ a comparative approach in evaluating their contents and contributions.

3. Avoid digressive essays; confine comments to the book under evaluation.

4. 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.

5. 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:

Geography of Cities, George O. Urbane. Geo Press, Tyson’s Corner, 1979. 193 pp., maps, illustrations, index. $74.95. Reviewed by Jane D. Teacher, University of State.

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:

Meghan Cope
Department of Geography
University of Vermont
200 Old Mill
94 University Place
Burlington, VT 05405
(e-mail: )

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Books Received

 

Those interested in reviewing one of the following titles should send the Book Review Editor, Meghan Cope, an e-mail by clicking on the "Interested in reviewing" link.


Adams, C., Bartelt, D., Elesh, D., and Goldstein, I. 2008. Restructuring the Philadelphia Region: Metropolitan Divisions and Inequality. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
[Interested in reviewing]

Birch, E. and Wachter, S., eds. 2008. Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the 21st Century. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Biswas, A., Rached, E., and Tortajada, C., eds. 2008. Water as a Human Right for the Middle East and North Africa. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]

Boyd, M. 2008. Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Briggs, X. 2008. Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity In Communities Across the Globe. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Brunn, S., Hays-Mitchell, M., and Zeigler, D., eds. 2008. Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. [Interested in reviewing]

Esperdy, G. 2008. Modernizing Main Street: Architecture and Consumer Culture in the New Deal. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Forman, R. 2008. Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Hall, T., Hubbard, P., and Short, J., eds. 2008. The Sage Companion to the City. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. [Interested in reviewing]

Hanley, M., Ruble, B., and Garland, A., eds. 2008. Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities. Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson Center Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Harvey, F., 2008. A Primer of GIS: Fundamental Geographic and Cartographic Concepts. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Hutton, T. 2008. The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, regeneration and dislocation in the 21st century metropolis. New York, NY: Routledge.

Jackson, M. 2008. Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Jones, P. and Evans, J. 2008. Urban Regeneration in the UK. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. [Interested in reviewing]

Kargon, R. and Molella, A. 2008. Invented Edens: Techno-Cities of the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Knox, P. 2008. Metroburbia, USA. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Lee, L. 2008. City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Luk, W. 2008. Chinatown in Britain: Diffusions and Concentrations of the British New Wave Chinese Immigration. Youngstown, NY: Cambria. [Interested in reviewing]

Maciocco, G., ed. 2008. Fundamental Trends in City Development, Vol. 2. Springer Science. [Interested in reviewing]

Maciocco, G., ed. 2008. Fundamental Trends in City Development, Vol. 1. Springer Science. [Interested in reviewing]

McGahey, R. and Vey, J., eds. 2008. Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Older Industrial Areas. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Mennel, B. 2008. Cities and Cinema. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]

Mitchell, J. 2008. Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities. Albany, NY: The State University of New York Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Newendorp, N. 2008. Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Oakes, T. and Price, P., eds. 2008. The Cultural Geography Reader. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]

Obermeyer, N. and Pinto J., 2008. Managing Geographic Information Systems, Second Edition. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Prakash, G. and Kruse, K., eds. 2008. The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Price, M. and Benton-Short, L., eds. 2008. Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Putman, J. 2008. Class and Gender Politics in Progressive-Era Seattle. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Saint-Julien, T. H. and Le Goix, R. 2008. La Metropolie Parisienne: Centralities, inegalities, proximites. Paris, FR: Belin.

Singer, A., Hardwick, S. W., and Brettell, C. B., eds. 2008. Twenty-First Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Smith, M. and Bakker, M. 2008. Citizenship Across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Staeheli, L. and Mitchell, D. 2008. The People's Property? Power, Politics, and the Public. New York, NY: Routledge. [Interested in reviewing]

Steinberg, P. and Shields, R., eds. 2008. What is a City? Rethinking the Urban After Hurricane Katrina. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. [Interested in reviewing]

Vicino, T. 2008. Transforming Race and Class in Suburbia: Decline in Metropolitan Baltimore. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. [Interested in reviewing]

Yochelson, B. and Czitrom, D. 2008. Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York. New York, NY: The New Press. [Interested in reviewing]

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