Abstracts

Abstracts

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00427 (p 1-9)

Articles

Trader associations and urban food systems in Ghana: institutionalist approaches to understanding urban collective action

Fergus Lyon

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00428 (p 11-23)

Rural‐urban migration and gender division of labor in transitional China

C. Cindy Fan

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00429 (p 24-47)

In search of local autonomy: the politics of big cities in Russia’s transition

Vladimir Gel'man

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00430 (p 48-61)

Precariousness in everyday life: homelessness in Japan

Patricia Kennett, Masami Iwata

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00431 (p 62-74)

Making space for sex work: female street prostitution and the production of urban space

Phil Hubbard, Teela Sanders

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00432 (p 75-89)

Reasserting the ‘social’ in social rented housing: politics, housing policy and housing reforms in New Zealand

Laurence Murphy

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00433 (p 90-101)

Symposium

From urban social movements to urban movements: a review and introduction to a symposium on urban movements

Chris Pickvance

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00434 (p 102-109)

The onward sweep of social capital: causes and consequences for understanding cities, communities and urban movements

Margit Mayer

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00435 (p 110-132)

Is the institutionalization of urban movements inevitable? A comparison of the opportunities for sustained squatting in New York City and Amsterdam

Hans Pruijt

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00436 (p 133-157)

Socio‐politically polarized contexts, urban mobilization and the environmental movement: a comparative study of two campaigns of protest in Northern Ireland

Manlio Cinalli

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00437 (p 158-177)

Interventions

The end of public housing as we know it: public housing policy, labor regulation and the US city

Jeff R. Crump

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00438 (p 179-187)

Comments on Jeff R. Crump’s ‘The end of public housing as we know it: public housing policy, labor regulation and the US city’

Alex Schwartz

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00439 (p 188-192)

Rejoinder: Alex Schwartz’s critique of ‘The end of public housing as we know it’

Jeff R. Crump

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00440 (p 193-195)

Review Essays

Are South Africa’s cities changing? Indications from the mid‐1990s

Jeremy Seekings

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00441 (p 197-202)

Book Reviews

Book Reviews

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00442 (p 203-213)

Indices

Index to Volume 26

Published online on May 13th, 2003 | DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00443 (p 215-221)