Jukes's book "A Shout in the Street" was published by Faber and Faber in the UK in 1990, and by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and the University of California Press in the US. This "unusual but addictive book" (according to "The Washington Post") is a series of essays and montages about modernity and city life, centred on London, Paris, Saint Petersburg and New York City. The "Journal of Sociology" compared the book favourably to the work of Jane Jacobs: "He is less shrill than Jacobs, more confident in his materials, and yet more sensitive and critical." But it was the format of the book ("a courteously lucid deconstructionist text,which is part documentary lecture, part collage of quotations and photographs" according to "The New Yorker") which was commended by John Berger a "dream of a book" following the traditions of Walter Benjamin: