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Books reviewed: Luc Anselin, Raymond J. G. M. Florax, and Sergio J. Rey. Advances in Spatial Econometrics: Methodology, Tools and Applications Amy Ellen Schwartz. City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer Andrew Wood and David Valler. Governing Local and Regional Economies: Institutions, Politics and Economic Development Vijayendra Rao and Michael Walton. Culture and Public Action Kent W. Colton. Housing in the Twenty-First Century: Achieving Common Ground Leo van den Berg and Antonio Russo. The Student City: Strategic Planning for Student Communities in EU Cities Harry W. Richardson and Chang-Hee Christine Bae. Urban Sprawl in Western Europe and the United States Ron J. Johnston and James D. Sidaway. Geography & Geographers: Anglo-American Human Geography since 1945 Georges Benko and Ulf Strohmayer. Human Geography: A History for the 21st Century Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott. Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century Michael Storper. Institutions, Incentives and Communication in Economic Geography Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Globalization in Historical Perspective A. J. Dietz, Ruerd Ruben, and A. Verhagen. The Impact of Climate Change on Drylands, With a Focus on West Africa Francis J. Leazes Jr. and Mark T. Motte. Providence, the Renaissance City Mike Carr. Bioregionalism and Civil Society: Democratic Challenges to Corporate Globalism [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews several books. "Representations of Space and Time," by Donna J. Peuquet; "The Right to the City. Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space," by Don Mitchell; "Domicicle: The Global Destruction of Home," by J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra F. Smith," by J. Douglas Porteous and Sandra F. Smith.

Allen, J.L., editor, 1997: A new world disclosed. Lincoln, NB, and London: University of Nebraska Press. xvii + 538 pp. £72.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 8032 1015 9. Barrow, C.J. 1999: Alternative irrigation: the promise of runoff agriculture. London: Earthscan. xvii + 172 pp. £40.00 cloth, £15.95 paper. ISBN: 1 85383 495 5 cloth, 1 85383 496 3 paper. Crang, M., Crang, P. and May, J., editors, 1999: Virtual geographies: bodies, space and relations. London: Routledge. 322 pp. £50.00 cloth, £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16827 9 cloth, 0 415 16828 7 paper. Cravey, A.J. 1998: Women and work in Mexico’s maquiladoras. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. xii + 176 pp. US$52.00 cloth, US$19.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 8885 2 cloth, 0 8476 8886 0 paper. Fernández-Kelly, M.P. 1983: For we are sold, I and my people: women and industry in Mexico’s frontier. Albany, IN: State University of New York Press. Dodgshon, R.A. 1998: Society in time and space: a geographical perspective on change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii + 230 pp. £37.50 cloth, £13.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 59385 9 cloth, 0 521 59640 8 paper. Esping-Andersen, G. 1999: Social foundations of postindustrial economies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ix + 207 pp. £40.00 cloth, £14.99 paper. ISBN: 0 19874 201 1 cloth, 0 19874 200 2 paper. Feagin, J.R. 1997: The new urban paradigm: critical perspectives on the city. Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield. xiv + 357 pp. £46.00 cloth, £18.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8476 8498 9 cloth, 0 8476 8499 7 paper. Fyfe, N.R., editor, 1998: Images of the street: planning, identity and control in public space. London and New York: Routledge. xv + 286 pp. £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 15441 3. Gamble, A., Marsh, D. and Tant, T., editors, 1999: Marxism and social science. London: Macmillan. ix + 381 pp. £42.50 cloth, £13.99 paper. ISBN: 0 333 65595 8 cloth, 0 333 65596 6 paper. Goodman, D. and Watts, M.J., editors, 1997: Globalising food: agrarian questions and global restructuring. London: Routledge. xv + 383 pp. £50.00 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 415 16252 1 cloth, 0 415 16253 X paper. Gould, P. 1999: Becoming a geographer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. xvi + 350 pp. US$34.95 cloth. ISBN: 0 1856 0566 8. Harmon, A. 1999: Indians in the making: ethnic relations and Indian identities around Puget Sound. American Crossroads Series 3. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. xii + 393 pp. US$40.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 520 21176 6. Harré, R., Brockmeier, J. and Mühlhäusler, P. 1999: Greenspeak: a study of environmental discourse. London: Sage. xii + 204 pp. £41.00 cloth, £18.99 paper. ISBN: 0 7619 1704 7 cloth, 0 7619 1705 5 paper. Held, D., McGrew, A., Goldblatt, D. and Perraton, J. 1999: Global transformations: politics, economics and culture. Oxford: Polity. xxiv + 515 pp. £59.50 cloth, £16.99 paper. ISBN: 0 74561 498 1 cloth, 0 74561 499 X paper. Hollingsworth, J.R. and Boyer, R., editors, 1999: Contemporary capitalism: the embeddedness of institutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xvi + 493 pp. £45.00 cloth, £14.95 paper. ISBN: 0 521 56165 5 cloth, 0 521 65806 3 paper. Luke, T.W. 1997: Ecocritique: contesting the politics of nature, economy and culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minneapolis Press. US$19.95 paper. ISBN: 0 8166 2847 5. Matsumoto, V.J. and Allmendinger, B., editors, 1999: Over the edge: remapping the American west. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. xii + 399 pp. £37.50 ($48.00) cloth, £13.95 ($19.95) paper. ISBN: 0 520 21148 0 cloth, 0 520 21149 9 paper. Pattison, G. 1999: Restructuring culture: identification of difference and the regulation of change in ex-mining communities. Aldershot: Ashgate. vi + 211 pp. £37.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 84014 330 4. Preston, P.W. 1998: Pacific Asia in the global system: an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. vi + 283 pp. £50.00 cloth, £15.99 paper. ISBN: 0 631 20374 4 cloth, 0 631 20238 2 paper. Rostow, W.W. 1998: The great population spike and after: reflections on the 21st century. New York: Oxford University Press x + 228 pp. £26.99 cloth. ISBN: 0 19 511691 7. Scott, S. and Duncan, C.J. 1998: Human demography and disease. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xvi + 354 pp. £50.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 521 62052 X. Southall, A. 1998: The city in time and space. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. x + 473 pp. £45.00 cloth. ISBN: 0 521 46211 8. van Grunsven, L., editor, 1998: Regional change in industrializing Asia. IGU Commission on the Organisation of Industrial Space. Aldershot: Ashgate. xiv + 238 pp. £37.50 cloth. ISBN: 1 840114 114 1. Wyckoff, W. 1999: Creating Colorado: t. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "Free Market Environmentalism," by Terry L. Anderson and Donald R. Leal, "War and the City," by G. J. Ashworth, "Environment and Economy: Property Rights and Public Policy," by Daniel W. Bromley and "Wipeouts and Their Migration," edited by Joseph Dimento.

Reviews the book 'Making Ontario. Agricultural Colonization and Landscape Re-Creation Before the Railway,' by J. David Wood.

Reviews the book 'Manufacturing Montreal: The Making of an Industrial Landscape, 1850–1930,' by Robert Lewis.

Reviews the book 'Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900-1950,' by Richard Harris.

Reviews the book `Conservation and the City,' by Peter J. Larkham.

Reviews the book `Atlas historique de Montreal,' by Jean-Claude Robert.

Reviews the book "The Pursuit of Urban History," edited by Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe.

Reviews the book "Geographical Change and the Industrial Revolution: Coalmining in South West Lanchashire," by John Langton.

Reviews the book "The Unheavenly City Revisited," by Edward C. Banfield.

Reviews the book `Pride in the Jungle: Community and Everyday Life in the Back of the Yards Chicago,' by Thomas J. Jablonsky.

Reviews the book 'The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism,' by Michael B. Katz et al.

Books reviewed: Pyne, Stephen J., How The Canyon Became Grand: A Short History Gibson, Clark C., Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa Voeks, Robert A., Sacred Leaves of Candomblé: African Magic, Medicine, and Religion in Brazil Grossman, Lawrence S., The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants and Agrarian Change in the Eastern Caribbean Fennell, David A., Ecotourism: An Introduction Soffer, Arnon, Rivers of Fire: The Conflict Over Water in the Middle East Light, Andrew and Smith, Jonathan M., Philosophy and Geography II: The Production of Public Space Davies, Richard O., Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America Driver, Felix and Gilbert, David, Imperial Cities: Landscape, Display and Identity Baldassare, Mark, California in the New Millennium: The Changing Social and Political Landscape Herzog, Lawrence A., From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Across the Mexico-United States Border Cowie, Jefferson, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor Aiken, Charles, The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War Smith, Steven D., Crass, David, and Zierden, Martha A., The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities Hoelscher, Steven D., Heritage of Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland Bradley, Betsy Hunter, The Works: The Industrial Architecture of the United States [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book `The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning,' by John Sewell.

Reviews the book 'Saint John: The Making of a Colonial Urban Community,' by T.W. Acheson.

Reviews the book "The Urban Millenium," by Josef W. Konvitz.