Calling all postgraduate and early career urban geographers:
The Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) of the RGS-IBG is seeking postgraduate and early career researchers to undertake book reviews to be published on its website (http://www.urban-geography.org.uk). If your research interests are connected to any of the themes suggested by the following titles and you are able to write a high quality review of approximately 1000 words by Monday 9th May 2011 would you please reply by email to Justin Spinney ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 4th March 2011 stating which title you are interested in and your postal address:
Authors: Chris Allen and Rob Imrie (Eds)
Title: The Knowledge Business The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research
Year: 2010
Publisher: Ashgate
Author: Swapna Banerjee-Guha (Ed)
Title: Accumulation by Dispossession: Transformative Cities in the New Global Order
Year: 2010
Publisher: Sage
Authors: James Cooper, Ray Mundy and John Nelson
Title: Taxi! Urban Economies and the Social and Transport Impacts of the Taxicab
Year: 2010
Publisher: Ashgate
Author: Pete Fussey, Jon Coaffee, Gary Armstrong, Dick Hobbs
Title: Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond
Year: 2011
Publisher: Ashgate
Authors: Haideh Moghissi and Halleh Ghorashi (Eds)
Title: Muslim Diaspora in the West Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging
Year: 2010
Publisher: Ashgate
Authors: Shamoon Patwari and Bo Tang, Written by Maurice Mitchell Title: Learning from Delhi Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes
Year: 2010
Publisher: Ashgate
Author: Simon Rycroft
Title: Swinging City A Cultural Geography of London 1950-1974
Year: 2011
Publisher: Ashgate
Author: Andrew Wallace
Title: Remaking Community? New Labour and the Governance of Poor Neighbourhoods
Year: 2010
Publisher: Ashgate
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