Books reviewed in this article:

Christopher Mele, Selling the Lower East Side: culture, real estate, and resistance in New York City

Frank Moulaert, Globalization and integrated area development in European cities

Linda McDowell, Gender, identity and place: understanding feminist geographies

Mike Davis, Magical urbanism: Latinos reinvent the US city

Graeme Evans, Cultural planning: an urban renaissance?

Ian Gough and Gunnar Olofsson (eds.), Capitalism and social cohesion: essays on exclusion and integration

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American project: the rise and fall of a modern ghetto