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The article reviews several books, including "African City Textualities," edited by Ranka Primorac, "New Sociologies of Sex Work," edited by Kate Hardy, Sarah Kingston and Teela Saunders, and "Refugee Women in Britain and France," by Gill Allwood and Khursheed Wadia.

The article reviews several books including "Local Governments and Their Intergovernmental Networks in Federalizing Spain," Robert Agranoff, "Finance and Governance of Capital Cities in Federal Systems," edited by Enid Slack and Rupak Chattopadhyay, and the "Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies," by Daniel Bochsler.

The article presents reviews for several books including "Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of Philadelphia," edited by Gabriel Knowles, "Le Corbusier en Bogatá: El proyecto del 'grand immeuble', 1950-1951," by Fernando Arias Lemos, and "Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City," by Aseel Sawalha.

The article reviews the book "Gender and Housing in Soviet Russia: Private Life in a Public Space," by Lynne Attwood.

The article presents reviews of the books "The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 3, International Solidarity," Part One and Two: two volumes," by the South African Democracy Education Trust, "Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society," by Håkan Thörn and "Secretary of the Invisible: The Idea of Hospitality in the Fiction of J.M. Coetzee," by Mike M. Marais.

The article reviews several books including "Grasping Africa: A Tale of Tragedy and Achievement," by Stephen Chan, "Living in bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda," by Sverker Finnström, and "Bibliography on Islam in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa," edited by Paul Schrijver.

The article reviews several books, including "Challenging situatedness: gender, culture and the production of knowledge," edited by Ericka Engelstad and Siri Gerrard, "Deleuzian encounters: studies in contemporary social issues," edited by Anna Hickey-Moody and Peta Mallins, and "Daughter of the desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell," by Georgina Howell.

This book is a well-informed introduction to qualitative research methodologies and is organized as a guide for the preparation of qualitative research proposals. It describes and discusses, in seven chapters, different types of qualitative research and the appropriate methods of data collection, analysis and interpretation. This fourth edition includes references to recent theoretical and methodological developments associated with post-modern, feminist and postcolonial perspectives as well as the new challenges faced by online qualitative research. It is a useful reference for undergraduate and graduate students interested to develop a qualitative research project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "Urbanismo Europeo en Caracas (1870-1940)," by Arturo Almandoz, "England's Seaside Resorts," by Allan Brodie and Gary Swindon, "Stadtwohnen: Geschichte, Staedtebau, Perspektiven," edited by Tilman Harlander, Harald Bodenschatz, Gerhard Fehl, Johann Jessen, and Gerd Kuhn

The article reviews several books including "Social Capital in the City: Community and Civic Life in Philadelphia," edited by Richardson Dilworth, "Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life," edited by Karen A. Franck and Quentin Stevens, and "Millennium Park: Creating a Chicago Landmark," by Timothy J. Gilfoyle.

This article presents reviews of the books "Transforming Local Political Leadership," edited by by Rikke Berg and Nirmala Rao, "Comparing Local Governance: Trends and Developments," by edited by Bas Denters and Lawrence E. Rose, and "Metropolitan Governance: Capacity, Democracy and the Dynamics of Place," edited by Hubert Heinelt and Daniel Kübler.

The article reviews several books including "Housing Policy in the UK," by David Mullins and Alan Murie, "A New Vision for Housing," by Chris Holmes, and "Getting into Local Power: The Politics of Ethnic Minorities in British and French Cities," by Romain Garbaye.

This article reviews the book "New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures," by Emily Talen.

The article reviews several books about city planning including "Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice," by Julian Agyeman, "Werner Hegemann and the Search for Universal Urbanism," by Christiane Crasemann Collins, and "Globalizing Taipei: The Political Economy of Spatial Development," by R. Y. Kwok.

The article reviews the book "Policy and Evidence in a Partisan Age: The Great Disconnect," by Paul Gary Wyckoff.

The article reviews the book "Governing for Sustainable Urban Development," by Yvonne Rydin,

The article reviews the book “Wiki Government. How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful,” by Beth Simone Noveck.

A review of the book "Governing the Post-Communist City: Institutions & Democratic Development in Prague," by Martin Horak is presented.

The article reviews the book "Bringing in the Future: Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability in Developing Countries," by William Ascher.

The article reviews the book "How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America," by Carl Abbott.

The article reviews the book "Cities and Cultures," by Malcolm Miles.

The article reviews the book "Protected Areas and Regional Development in Europe: Towards a New Model for the 21st Century," edited by Ingo Mose.

The article reviews the book "E-Governance in European and South African Cities: The cases of Barcelona, Cape Town, Eindhoven, Johannesburg, Manchester Tampere, The Hague and Venice," by L. van den Berg, A. van der Meer and W. Winden.

The article reviews the book "Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice," by Jill Grant.

This article reviews the book "Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 1," edited by Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson.

Reviews the book "Nordic Local Government. Development Trends and Reform Activities in the Post War Period," by Erik Albaek, Lawrence Rose, Lars Stromberg and Krister Stahlberg.

The article reviews the book "African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice" by Garth Myers.

The article reviews the book "Suburban Affiliations: Social Relations in the Greater Dublin Area," by Mary P. Corcoran, Jane Gray, and Michel Peillon.

The article presents a review of the book "Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Marco Amati.