<italic>Do contemporary communications cumulatively undermine the city, culminating in its end? Peter Hall's survey of the available evidence lends support to the claim for the continuing relevance of agglomeration as the “urban glue”. He explores the extent to which telecommuting supplements rather...</italic>

The book <roman>London Voices London Lives: Notes from a Working Capital,</roman> published in summer 2007, has two affinities: written by Michael Young’s successor at the Institute of Community Studies, it appeared almost exactly fifty years after <roman>Family and Kinship in East London,</roman> and it presents the...