Editorial
Industry and space: a sympathetic critique of radical research 3 – 29
R A Sayer
The rise and fall of urban movements and the role of comparative analysis 31 – 53
C Pickvance
Commentary on C Pickvance's "The rise and fall of urban movements and the role of comparative analysis" 55 – 61
M Castells
Special Economic Zones: the Chinese road to socialism? 63 – 84
C-F Lai
Regional intervention, defence industries, and the structuring of space in Britain: the case of Bristol and South Wales 85 – 107
J Lovering
Routine action, reproduction of social relations, and the place market: Consett after the closure 109 – 120
F Robinson, D Sadler
Review 3: "Let them eat chips" 121 – 127
A L Saxenian
Reviews 129 – 138
The crisis of the state and the region: regional planning questioned 141 – 153
B K Becker
Political and technical moments in development: agropolitan development revisited 155 – 167
J Friedmann
Integrated regional planning as an agent of the state vis-à-vis the local community and the 'patria chica' (homeland): a summary of Central American experiences 169 – 174
G Sandner
Regions in context: spatiality, periodicity, and the historical geography of the regional question 175 – 190
E W Soja
Possibilities of a territorial ordering for the transition in Nicaragua 191 – 212
J L Coraggio
The economic crisis in Brazil 213 – 221
S Silva
Brazil: a difficult present, an urgent future—an interview with Maria da Conceição Tavares 223 – 230
Interviewer R Bueno
Seven equivocal theses about Amazonia 231 – 238
O Velho
Romance of the roses: a discourse on the path to regional reconstruction 239 – 258
C Weaver
Survey 3: Recent development in German-speaking human geography—controversy, change, and continuity 259 – 263
R Hartmann
Reviews 265 – 276
Editorial
Cities, socialism and war: Hanoi, Saigon and the Vietnamese experience of urbanisation 279 – 308
N J Thrift, D K Forbes
Survey 5: In the wake of nuclear war—possible worlds in an age of scientific expertise 309 – 321
M Curry
Survey 6: Urban history, housing, and politics in Britain 323 – 336
R J Lawrence
The neighbourhood organisation as a pedagogic project 337 – 355
S Hasson
Worker militancy in South Africa: a sociospatial analysis of trade union activism in the manufacturing sector 357 – 379
M Sutcliffe, P Wellings
Reviews 381 – 386
Editorial
Regional restructuring, class change, and political action: preliminary comments on the 1984–1985 miners' strike in South Wales 389 – 406
G Rees
The spatial and temporal constitution of social action: a critical reading of Giddens 407 – 424
M Storper
Power, space, and the body: a critical assessment of Foucault's Discipline and Punish 425 – 446
F Driver
Accounting for place and space 447 – 460
J Shotter
Survey 7: The new naturalism—a critique of Order Out of Chaos 461 – 476
R Pred, A Pred
Cities, culture, and social change: books in 1984 477 – 487
D K Forbes, P Jackson, N J Thrift, P Williams
Reviews 489 – 498