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1 Introduction PART I Damage and displacement 2 The fracturing of a vulnerable city 3 Impacts on households and communities PART II Recovery and renewal 4 Governance and the cartographies of recovery 5 Housing recovery 6 City centre recovery and commercial property investment 7 Voluntary and community sector responses PART III The city in transition 8 From transitional activities to place-making 9 Landscapes of consumption 10 The eastern suburbs 11 The more-than-human city 12 The residential red zone: the city's field of dreams? 13 Conclusion

We examine the mediating role of real estate agency in the residential housing market with reference to intraurban place meaning. Our focus is on real estate advertising because it is the central mediating technique used by sales consultants to incorporate and extend the market activities of a range of actors whose interests and needs are intertwined in the interpretation and representation of people's houses and homes, and those parts of the city in which they are located. We therefore discuss the process of making and deploying such advertising and the ways real estate sales consultants help continually to reinvigorate the meaning of suburbs and other urban localities.

Radio program content in the US is characterized more by sameness than by diversity. Although stations are plentiful, their formats are programmed to suit mass appeal for reasons of profit, & offer little diversity (eg, of Chicago's 64 stations, there are only 13 distinctive formats). The duplication of formats tends to proceed unhampered by intervention from the regulatory Federal Communications Commission, although that body approves of program diversity. A novel approach to radio regulation is provided that combines economic incentives with new methods for identifying audience preferences. Emphasis is placed on the creation of local-level regulatory boards. 3 Tables. Modified HA.

'Urban sustainability' currently receives widespread and generally enthusiastic endorsement, yet concerns are emerging that recent expressions of the concept may actually be working against the city and its residents. Based on research in Christchurch, New Zealand (one of the most urbanised countries in the world), it is argued that the assimilation of social, economic and bio-physical environmental elements that gave the idea much of its original legitimacy has been reduced to a minimalist set of material and discursive 'eco-friendly' denominators. As a result, only occasional glimpses of the city and its human inhabitants are caught in attempts to operationalise sustainability in urban areas. The effect is that cities, in New Zealand at least, are less liveable and less likeable than they should be. It is suggested that there is a real need to re-urbanise and rehumanise the urban sustainability agenda as a means of realising its integrative and transformative potential.