Book Reviews
We are currently changing and developing our reviews section. Reviews will now also be published on the blog section of our website together with being published through SAGE OnlineFirst and in print as part of a journal issue.
You can now read book reviews on our blog here.
Books available for review
If you are interested in reviewing a book for Urban Studies, please check the list of books available for review below before getting in touch with our Reviews Editor, Prof Michele Acuto. We are happy to receive requests for other titles but please note that some publishers now only offer e-copies for review although we always request a hard copy where possible.
Title |
Author |
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Africans in Harlem: An Untold New York Story |
Boukary Sawadogo |
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Beyond the Megacity: New Dimensions of Peripheral Urbanization in Latin America |
Nadine Reis and Michael Lukas (eds) |
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Big City Elections in Canada |
Jack Lucas and R. Michael McGregor (eds) |
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Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City |
Brandi Thompson Summers |
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Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development |
John G. Stehlin |
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Electing a Mega-Mayor: Toronto 2014 |
R. Michael McGregor, Aaron Alexander Moore and Laura Beth Stephenson |
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Ethnic Spatial Segregation in European Cities |
Hans Skifter Andersen |
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From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism |
Murray Bookchin |
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Hired Daughters: Domestic Workers among Ordinary Moroccans |
Mary Montgomery |
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Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore |
Abigail Perkiss |
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Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a Fragmented World |
Jennifer S. Vey and Nate Storring |
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Justice at Work: The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities |
Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock |
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Leading Cities: A Global Review of City Leadership |
Elisabeth Rappaport, Michele Acuto, and Leonora Grcheva |
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Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification |
Mike Amezcua |
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Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay |
Sheetal Chhabria |
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Mapping Historical Las Vegas: A Cartographic Journey |
Joe Weber |
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Mobile Urbanity: Somali Presence in Urban East Africa |
Neil Carrier and Tabea Scharrer (eds) |
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Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America's Housing Crisis |
Maxwell Palmer |
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Political Geography of Cities and Regions: Changing Legitimacy and Identity |
Kees Terlouw |
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Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place |
Youjeong Oh |
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Power, Participation and Protest in Flint, Michigan |
Ashley E. Nickels |
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Shadow Play: Information Politics in Urban Indonesia |
Sheri Lynn Gibbings |
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Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World |
John Joe Schlichtman |
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Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology |
David B. Williams |
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The American Housing Question: Racism, Urban Citizenship, and the Privilege of Mobility |
Randolph Hohle |
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The City in China: New Perspectives on Contemporary Urbanism |
Ray Forrest, Julie Ren and Bart Wissink (eds) |
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The Company We Keep: Interracial Friendships and Romantic Relationships from Adolescence to Adulthood |
Grace Kao, Kara Joyner, Kelly Stamper Balistreri |
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The People's Money: Pensions, Debt, and Government Services |
Michael A. Pagano (ed.) |
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The Rise of the Creative Class |
Richard Florida |
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The Speculative City: Emergent Forms and Norms of the Built Environment |
Cecilia L. Chu and Shenjing He |
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Urban Development in China Under the Institution of Land Rights |
Jieming Zhu |
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Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Intervention to Overcome Gun Violence |
Melvin Delgado |
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Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago |
Blair Kamin |
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