Book reviewed in this article:

Esping‐Andersen, Gosta (ed.) 1993 Changing classes: stratification and mobility in post‐industrial societies.

Fainstein, Susan S. 1994: The city builders: property, politics, and planning in London and New York.

Heinelt, Hubert and Margit Mayer (eds) 1992: Politik in europäischen Städten: Fallstudien zur Bedeutung lokaler Politik.

Mollenkopf, John Hull 1992: The phoenix in the ashes: the rise and fall of the Koch coalition in New York City politics.

Fainstein, Susan S. (1994) The city builders: property, politics and planning in London and New York.

Power, Anne 1993: Hovels to high rise: state housing in Europe since 1850.

Rothblatt, D.N. and A. Sancton (eds) 1993: American‐Canadian metropolitan intergovernmental governance perspectives.

Squires, Gregory D. (ed.) 1992: From redlining to reinvestment: community responses to urban disinvestment.