A scholar of architecture and cultural anthropology, Klaufus (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation--CEDLA, Amsterdam) examines intermediate-sized cities in the Andes region, and how different groups of urbanites occupy urban space, both the city envisaged by architects and planners, and the everyday city of residents and users. She sees the city as a tangled and layered social space that is depicted and used in different ways by different social groups. The study began as her 2006 doctoral dissertation in anthropology at Utrecht University, published as Steden en de bouwers, and is translated from the Dutch by Le Mitzman. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)