A new issue of Metropolis is out. From Metropoles, Paul Kantor (Fordham) and H.V. Savitch (Louisville): The Politics of City Regions in Comparative Perspective; Ernesto d’Albergo (Rome): Governance, Participation and In-between: Inclusion in Policy Making and Policies for Inclusion in Four Western European Metropolises; and Olivier Borraz and Patrick Le Gales (CNRS): Urban Governance in Europe: The Government of What? From FT, a review essay on the modern metropolis. Power, mobility and diaspora in the global city: An interview with Saskia Sassen. Louis Moreno and John Alderson's The Architecture and Urban Culture of Financial Crisis and Sarah Glynn's Where the Other Half Lives assess the damaging impact of financialisation on built environments and urban housing — Owen Hatherley identifies architecture as a prime casualty of neoliberalism's de facto Non-Plan. From Axess, a special issue on the triumph of the city. The Endless City: Will the megacities of tomorrow cut us off from the natural world completely? A review of Restless Cities. Cities pose novel challenges to wildlife, but some animals are finding they're suited to city life and are undergoing rapid evolution in their new ecological niche. A review of Public Produce: The New Urban Agriculture by Darrin Nordahl. Howard Gillette on his book Civitas by Design: Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism.
