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
