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I've been a big fan of T&C's essay reviews of works in our field. Generally, I think the scholarly community is well served by longer, more detailed appraisals than the 750 words or so demanded by the book review genre and permitted by the available space. But I am disappointed with Josef Konvitz's recent essay review of our edited volume Urban Machinery: Inside Modern European Cities (April 2010, 474-76). I can't be sure of how or why Konvitz chose to frame his negative review; any scholar is entitled to her or his own assessment of a work. Still, I believe that this review falls substantially short of the thoughtful, comprehensive, well-reasoned, and insightful reviews that T&C aims to publish.