Books reviewed:

Setha M. Low (ed.), Theorizing the city: the new urban anthropology reader

Sarah Holloway and Gill Valentine (eds.), Children’s geographies: playing, living, learning

Saskia Sassen, Cities in the world economy

Stephanie S. Pincetl, Transforming California: a political history of land use and development

Clive Norris and Gary Armstrong, The maximum surveillance society: the rise of CCTV

David Lyon, Surveillance society: monitoring everyday life

Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen, Suomen tietoyhteiskuntamalli

Oscar W. Gabriel and Vincent Hoffmann–Martinot (eds.), Democraties urbaines: l’état de la democratie dans les grandes villes de 12 pays industrializes

Joel Outtes, Recife: O génese do urbanismo 1927–1943

James O. Wheeler, Yuko Aoyama and Barney Warf (eds.), Cities in the telecommunications age: the fracturing of geographies