Dear All,
as part of the role of any serious academic journal we aim
to provide our readers with up to date book reviews. We
would welcome any suggestions from you regarding new books
that the journal should include in its review section.
Review copies are now available for the following new
books for Urban Research & Practice
(www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rurp), the Journal published in
association with EURA (European Urban Research
Association, www.eura.org):
1. Robert Mark Silverman, Kelly L. Patterson, Li Yin,
Molly Ranahan and Laiyun Wu (2016), Affordable housing in
US shrinking cities. From neighborhoods of despair to
neighborhoods of opportunity?, Policy Press,
https://policypress.co.uk/affordable-housing-in-us-shrinking-cities#book-detail-tabs-stison-block-content-1-0-tab0
2. Anne Power (2016), Cities for a small continent.
International handbook of city recovery, Policy Press
https://policypress.co.uk/cities-for-a-small-continent#book-detail-tabs-stison-block-content-1-0-tab2
3. Kimberley Kinder (2016), DIY Detroit. Making Do in a
City without Services , University of Minnesota Press,
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/diy-detroit
4. Donald McNeill (2017), Global Cities and Urban Theory,
SAGE Publishing,
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/global-cities-and-urban-theory/book240292
5. Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz, Xiangming Chen (2016),
Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New
York to Shanghai, Routledge
https://www.routledge.com/Global-Cities-Local-Streets-Everyday-Diversity-from-New-York-to-Shanghai/Zukin-Kasinitz-Chen/p/book/9781138023932
6. Anders Blok, Ignacio Farias (eds.)(2016), Urban
Cosmopolitics. Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres,
Routledge,
https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Cosmopolitics-Agencements-assemblies-atmospheres/Blok-Farias/p/book/9781138813410
Some instructions for authors:
- timing: the next deadline is September the 28th
- the review should not exceeded 1000 words in length, but
it could be also shorter (not less then 800 words);
- style guidelines:
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BOOK REVIEWS (as section heading)
Book title: all bold, by Author and Author / edited by
Editor, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2003, xliii +
584 pp., US$28.95 (paperback), ISBN 0-95-445440-6
Book title, edited by Editor, Manchester, Manchester
University Press, 2010, xv + 340 pp., £24.99 (paperback),
ISBN 978-0-719-08154-5
Book title, edited by Editor, Editor and Editor, Abingdon,
Routledge, 2009, xvi + 360 pp., $170 (hardback), ISBN
978-0-415-56085-9 / $44.95 (paperback), ISBN
978-0-415-56086-6 / $35.96 (ebk), ISBN 978-0-415-46087-3
Book title, by Author, Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 2008,
542 pp., £59.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-739-11434-6 /
£27.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-739-11435-3
Reviewer’s Name
Affiliation
Email
(c) year, Reviewer Name
References go before reviewer details
Next review follows after a space
No copyright line on first page of reviews
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If you are interested in reviewing and if you could do
that on time, please send me an e-mail
([log in to unmask]) with the author(s), the
title of the book, your references and the address where
you would like the book sent.
Thanks for your interest and we look forward to hearing
from you soon.
Best wishes
Cristiana
Book Reviews editor for Urban Research & Practice
Cristiana Rossignolo
DIST_Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban
Studies and Planning
Politecnico e Università di Torino
viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Torino - Italy
phone +39 011 0907473
fax +39 011 0907499
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