Engaging with spatial theory in most of its incarnations, the book contributes to conceptualisations of topology in the socio-cultural arena. This thought-provoking book adopts a critical stance that aims to transcend the metaphorical treatment of topology and clarify the potential of a topologically informed toolset fitted for spatial analysis.

Koelsch has produced a monumental study to help populate the landscape of the history of historical geography with figures from classical geography, showing just how recently the practice of classical geography was a concern for scholars: indeed Koelsch points out that the special interest only really met its demise around the turn of the twentieth century.

Written in 1973 and subsequently forgotten for four decades, the book is an extraordinary exploration of the affective dimensions of space, a topic that was uncharted territory in the 1970s. Lefebvre tackled it with the creative heterodoxy that always characterized him, blending his acute spatial gaze, the critical spirit of Marxist theory, phenomenology’s bodily sensibility, and a Dionysian, Nietzschean thrust.

In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman pursues a fascinating conceptual elaboration of mobility in relation to what he calls the "primitives" of spatial and temporal thinking, especially within Geography, Sociology and their engagements with Western philosophy and social theory. At the same time, the book proceeds from a conceptual agenda towards a detailed history of modern motoring in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century.

Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces is an engrossing book that beautifully integrates deep theoretical analysis of the conceptual and material practice of utopias with a wide range of fascinating (and at first take, seeming rather eclectic) case studies. In fact, for me, this is one of Everyday Utopias' key contributions and, in doing so, the book itself is exemplary of the kind of politically engaged thinking that it traces through its various case studies.