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Books reviewed in this issue: Heritage, Memory and the Politics of Identity: New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape. Niamh Moore and Yvonne Whelan (eds) Beyond the Regulation Approach. Putting the Capitalist Economies in Their Place. Bob Jessop and Sum Ngai-Ling. Migration in the New Europe: East–West Revisited. Agata Gorny and Paolo Ruspini. Presenting America's World: Strategies of Innocence in National Geographic Magazine 1888—1945. Tamar Y. Rothenberg. Talking About Sydney: Population, Community, and Culture in Contemporary Sydney. Robert Freestone, Bill Randolph and Caroline Butler-Bowden. Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things. Scott Lash and Celia Lury. Race and the Crisis of Humanism. Kay Anderson. The Power of Place: Existential Crises and Place Security in the Context of Pregnancy. Margareta Rämgård. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several nonfictional books in relation to the urban studies. Included are "Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-century Urbanism," by David Pinder and the "Transnational Building in Local Environments," by Luciana Melchert Saguas Presas. Also included is the "Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert," edited by Margaret Heilbrun.

Reviews the book "Manufacturing Culture. The Institutional Geography of Industrial Practice," by Meric S. Gertler.

Reviews two books. "Mega-Projects: An Anatomy of Ambition," by Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius and Werner Rothengatter; "Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment," by Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff.

Reviews the book "Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity," by Anthony D. King.

The article reviews the book "The Spiv and the Architect: Unruly Life in Postwar London," by Richard Hornsey.

The article reviews the book "Travel, Space, Architecture," edited by Jilly Traganou and Miodrag Mitrašinović

Reviews the book "Placing London: From Emperial Capital to Global City," by John Eade.