BOOK REVIEWS

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NEW REVIEWS

Dark Concrete: Black Power Urbanism and the American Metropolis

By Kimberley Johnson

Review by Akira Drake Rodriguez

The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981

By Daniel Wortel-London

Review by Laura Wolf-Powers

The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China's Search for a New International Order

By Curtis Simon & Klaus Ian

Review by Zhenhua Chen

The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

By Willow S. Lung-Amam

Review by Prentiss Dantzler

Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol

By Sanyu A. Mojola

Review by Stephanie Woolhandler & Gracie Himmelstein

Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism: Contesting the Boundaries of Democratic Practices

By Markus Holdo

Review by Arturo Flores López

Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston

By Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson

Review by Tanika Raychaudhuri

The Urban Field: Capital and Governmentality in the Age of Techno-Monopoly

By Sami Moisio and Ugo Rossi

Review by Casey R. Lynch

Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City

By Tim Weaver

Review by Nicholas R. Rodriguez and Reuel R. Rogers

Making Sanctuary Cities: Migration, Citizenship, and Urban Governance

By Rachel Humphris

Review by Els de Graauw

The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge

By Willow Lung-Amam

Review by Prentiss Dantzler

Affordable Housing in the United States

By Gregg Colburn and Rebecca J. Walter

Review by Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future

By Joanna Kusiak

Review by Elizabeth Strom

Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur

By Derek Hyra

Review by Rafia Mallick & Deirdre Oakley

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