Book reviewed in this article:

Ambrose P. 1986: Whatever happened to planning?

Amin, A. and Goddard, B. editors, 1986: Technological change, industrial restructuring and regional development.

Anderson, J. editor, 1986: The rise of the modern state.

Bruton, M. and Nicholson, D. 1987: Local planning in practice.

Clapham, D. and English, J. editors, 1987: Public housing: current trends and future developments.

Clavel, P. 1986: The progressive city: planning and participation, 1969–1984.

Cloke, P. editor, 1987: Rural planning: policy into action?.

Healey, M.J. and Ilbery, B.W. editors, 1985: The industrialization of the countryside.

Eyles, J. 1987: The geography of the National Health: an essay in welfare geography.

Foglesong, R.E. 1986: Planning the capitalist city: the Colonial Era to the 1920s.

Goldberg, M.A. 1985: The Chinese connection. Getting plugged in to Pacific Rim real estate, trade and capital markets.

Hoggart, K. and Kofman, E. editors, 1986: Politics, geography and social stratification.

Jaguaribe, H., dos Santos, W., de Paiva, M., Fritsch, W. and Bastos de Avila, F. 1986: Brazil, 2000: para um Novo Pacto Social

Lees, A. 1985: Cities perceived: urban society in European and American thought 1820–1940.

Lowder, S. 1986. Third world Cities.

Markusen, A., Hall, P. and Glasmeier, A. 1986: High tech America: the what, how, where and why of the sunrise industries.

Martin, R. and Rowthorn, B. editors, 1986: The geography of deindustrialisation.

Newman, D. editor, 1985: The impact of Gush‐Emunim: politics and settlement in the West Bank.

Rees, G. and Lambert, J. 1985: Cities in crisis: the political economy of urban development in postwar Britain.

Smith, Susan J. 1986: Crime, space and society.

Southall, A., Nas, P.J.M. and Ansari, G. editors, 1985: City and society: studies in urban ethnicity, life‐style and class.