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Book Review: URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY by D. Clark. Routledge, London, 1996. pp. vii + 211.

Book Review: URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY by D. Clark. Routledge, London, 1996. pp. vii + 211. 84 Book Reviews an appropriate place to explore these broader Overall, the audience for this book will come questions is debatable, but certainly migration from a variety of disciplines in Australia, although researchers need to be aware of, and grapple with, students would be more likely to regard it as a the general malaise of `separate development' reference text rather than one to purchase. The (Findlay and Graham, 1991) in population geogra- academic audience outside Australia will be much phy as a whole. narrower, particularly because of the paucity of Despite the Australian focus of the book, it would linkages made between the experience of Australia also have been useful for authors to make some and other countries. In fact this would be a shame. comment on how their ®ndings ®t in with, or This review has drawn attention to some of the gaps repudiate, theories or empirical patterns identi®ed that appear in the text, but the overall message that elsewhere. The international literature was ac- the book provides is an important one. How many knowledged in places (e.g. Hugo in Chapter 8, books on migration have been published elsewhere `Counterurbanisation'), but elsewhere, in otherwise that genuinely attempt to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Population Geography Wiley

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Wiley
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Copyright © 1998 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
1077-3495
eISSN
1099-1220
DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-1220(199803)4:1<84::AID-IJPG82>3.0.CO;2-3
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84 Book Reviews an appropriate place to explore these broader Overall, the audience for this book will come questions is debatable, but certainly migration from a variety of disciplines in Australia, although researchers need to be aware of, and grapple with, students would be more likely to regard it as a the general malaise of `separate development' reference text rather than one to purchase. The (Findlay and Graham, 1991) in population geogra- academic audience outside Australia will be much phy as a whole. narrower, particularly because of the paucity of Despite the Australian focus of the book, it would linkages made between the experience of Australia also have been useful for authors to make some and other countries. In fact this would be a shame. comment on how their ®ndings ®t in with, or This review has drawn attention to some of the gaps repudiate, theories or empirical patterns identi®ed that appear in the text, but the overall message that elsewhere. The international literature was ac- the book provides is an important one. How many knowledged in places (e.g. Hugo in Chapter 8, books on migration have been published elsewhere `Counterurbanisation'), but elsewhere, in otherwise that genuinely attempt to

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International Journal of Population GeographyWiley

Published: Mar 1, 1998

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