Seeking postgraduate and early career researchers to review books

The Urban Geography Research Group (UGRG) of the RGS-IBG is seeking postgraduate and early career researchers to review books 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 would be interested in writing a review of approximately 1,200 words would you please reply by email to Anna Plyushteva (a.plyushteva.11@ucl.ac.uk) by Friday, 16 May, including one or two sentences on why you are a suitable reviewer and your postal address. Please note, due to the volume of replies we receive we cannot reply to unsuccessful requests.


1. Author(s): Vassilena Parashkevova
Year: 2013
Title: Salman Rushdie's Cities: Reconfigurational Politics and the Contemporary Urban Imagination
Publisher: Bloomsbury

2. Author(s): Richard Bohannon
Year: 2013
Title: Public Religion and the Urban Environment: Constructing a River Town
Publisher: Bloomsbury

3. Author(s): Martin Dines, Timotheus Vermeulen, (eds.)
Year: 2013
Title: New Suburban Stories
Publisher: Bloomsbury

4. Author(s): Bradley Garrett
Year: 2013
Title: Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City
Publisher: Verso


5. Author(s): Colin McFarlane (ed.)
Year: 2012
Title: Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal
Publisher: Ashgate


6. Author(s): Tim Dixon, Malcolm Eames, Miriam Hunt, Sion Lannon (eds.)
Year: 2014
Title: Urban Retrofitting for Sustainability: Mapping the Transition to 2050
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


7. Author(s): Jason Pomeroy
Year: 2014
Title: The Skycourt and Skygarden: Greening the Urban Habitat
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


8. Author(s): Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein, Aglaée Degros (eds.)
Year: 2014
Title: Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


9. Author(s): Elizabeth Engebretsen
Year: 2014
Title: Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


10. Author(s): Alison Young
Year: 2014
Title: Street Art, Public City: Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


11. Author(s): Christiane Brosius
Year: 2014
Title: India’s Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity
Publisher: Taylor and Francis


12. Author(s): Paul Jenkins
Year: 2013
Title: Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City: Home Spaces and House Cultures Publisher: Palgrave


13. Author(s): Catalina Neculai
Year: 2014
Title: Urban Space and Late Twentieth-Century New York Literature: Reformed Geographies Publisher: Palgrave


14. Author(s): Aksel Tjora and Graham Scambler, eds.
Year: 2013
Title: Cafe Society
Publisher: Palgrave


15. Author(s): Mark Davidson, Deborah Martin
Year: 2012
Title: Urban Politics: Critical Approaches
Publisher: SAGE


16. Author(s): Benjamin Barber
Year: 2013
Title: If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Publisher: Yale University Press​