Book reviewed in this article:

Alford, R.R. and Friedland, R. 1985: Powers of theory: the state, capitalism and democracy.

Bullock, N. and Read, J. 1985: The movement for housing reform in Germany and France, 1840–1914.

de Vries, J. 1984: European urbanisation 1500–1800.

Matrix 1984: Making space: women and the man‐made environment.

Mény, Y. and Wright, V. editors, 1985: Centre‐periphery relations in western Europe.

Hebbert, M. and Machin, H. editors, 1984: Regionalisation in France, Italy and Spain.

Pinch, S. 1985: Cities and services: the geography of collective consumption.

Rose, M.E. editor, 1985: The poor and the city: the English Poor Law and its urban context, 1834–1914.

Siegmann, H. 1985: The conflicts between labour and environmentalism in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States.

Smith, N. 1984: Uneven development: nature, capital and the production of space.

Timberlake, M. editor, 1985: Urbanization in the world‐economy.

Walton, J. editor, 1985: Capital and labour in the urbanized world.

Williams, P. editor, 1984: Conflict and development.