This issue focuses on the changing nature of cities worldwide, a subject of concern for our broad range of readers. Without our having encouraged any one more specific focus, a dominant note has been sounded in our essays: alarm about pernicious urban conditions endured by the poor worldwide.
1: Changing Cities plus the New Urbanism, Gender and Design S/S 1997

Table of Contents
Essays
A Decent Life: Dilemmas of Urbanization
A Modest Proposal for a New Sub-Urbanism
A Prospect of St. Louis
Cities after the End of Cities
Cities of Impossibility
Empowerment in Abidjan
Modern and Asian
Modern and Islamic
One Space, Two Worlds
Skid Row, Los Angeles
The Architecture, the Book, and the Diskette
The Revanchist City
Urban or Suburban?
Reviews
Architecture and Feminism edited by Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze, and Carol Henderson
Architecture: In Fashion edited by Deborah Fausch, Paulette Singley, Rodolphe El-Khoury, and Zvi Efrat
Discrimination by Design by Leslie Kanes Weisman
Feminism and Geography by Gillian Rose
Not At Home edited by Chris Reed
Safe Cities edited by Gerda R. Wekerle and Carolyn Whitzman
Space, Place and Gender by Doreen Massey
STUD edited by Joel Sanders
The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice edited by Francesca Hughes
The Sex of Architecture edited by Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, and Leslie Kanes Weisman
Women and Planning by Clara Greed