Book Reviews: Critical Social Theory: Culture, Society and Critique

of urban studies as well. Perhaps the questions of what is urban sociology, and in what ways is it inter-related with other areas of urban studies might be ones that could have been more explicitly addressed here, both in the introductions and in the selections chosen. Finally, the earlier mention of Lefebvre brings us to The Urban Sociology Reader’s USP – no Lefebvre! Perhaps there is life in the genre yet.