Books reviewed in this article:

Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift, Cities: Reimagining the Urban

Elizabeth Wilson, The Contradictions of Culture: Cities, Culture, Women

Edmundo Werna, Combating Urban Inequalities: Challenges for Managing Cities in the Developing World

Nicholas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog, Consuming Cities: The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after the Rio Declaration

Ian Borden, Joe Kerr and Jane Rendell, with Alicia Pivaro (eds.), The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Michaela Hordijk, Of Dreams and Deeds. The Role of Local Initiatives for Community Based Environmental Management in Lima, Peru