BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Cities without Suburbs, by David Rusk, Washington, D.C. Dublin: The Shaping of a Capital City, by Andrew MacLaran The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City, by Joel Schwartz Citistates: Does the American City Have a Future? How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World, by Neal R. Peirce with Curtis W. Johnson and John Stuart Hall Metropolitan Governance: American/Canadian Intergovernmental Perspectives, edited by Donald N. Rothblatt and Andrew Sancton Boston against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s, by Ronald P. Formisano Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky—His Life and Legacy, by Sanford D. Horwitt     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Cityscapes and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development , by Michael A. Pagano and Ann O'M. Bowman Community Power in a Postreform City: Politics in New York City , by Robert F. Pecorella The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity , edited by Rutherford H. Platt, Rowan A. Rowntree, and Pamela C. Muick Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities , by Robert A. Beauregard New Community Networks: Wired for Change , by Douglas Schuler Urban Revitalization: Programs and Policies , edited by Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, and Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr. Thousand Oaks Reinventing Cities: Equity Planners Tell Their Stories , by Norman Krumholz and Pierre Clavel     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940, by John M. Findlay AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History, by Jerry Herron, Detroit Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space, edited by Michael Sorkin Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World, by Sharon Zukin Old Problems in New Times: Urban Strategies for the 1990% by Oliver E. Byrum Shaping a National Urban Agenda: The Role of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, by Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Subcommittee on National Urban Policy Dividing the Waters: Governing Groundwater in Southern California, by William Blomquist     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Economic Growth and Fiscal Planning: New York in the 1990s , by Roy Bahl and William Duncombe Social Inequality in Oaxaca: A History of Resistance and Change , by Arthur D. Murphy and Alex Stepick Official Leadership in the City: Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation , by James H. Svara The Pentagon and the Cities , Urban Affairs Annual Reviews #40, edited by Andrew Kirby     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Cities and Buildings: Skyscrapers, Skid Rows, and Suburbs, by Larry R. Ford. Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment, by Leslie Kanes Weisman Ethical Land Use: Principles of Policy and Planning, by Timothy Beatley. Acting on Ethics in City Planning, by Elizabeth Howe. Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City, edited by Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling. The New Localism: Comparative Urban Politics in a Global Era, edited by Edward G. Goetz and Susan E. Clarke.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Ending the Stalemate: Moving Housing and Urban Development into the Main-stream of America's Future, by Mary K. Nenno. Lanham Affordable Housing and Urban Redevelopment in the United States, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews 46, edited by Willem Van Vliet. Housing Management, Consumers and Citizens, by Liz Cairncross, David Clapham, and Robina Goodlad. Households and Housing: Choice and Outcomes in the Housing Market, by William A. V. Clark and Frans M. Dieleman. New Brunswick, NJ: The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City, by Neil Smith. London and New York: Selling Cities: Attracting Homebuyers Through Schools and Housing Programs, by David P. Varady and Jeffrey A. Raffel, Albany, Community Builders: A Tale of Neighborhood Mobilization in Two Cities, by Gordana Rabrenovic. Philadelphia:     

Book Reviews

Book review in this article
THICK SKINS: The Complexity of the Superficial
Surface Architecture DAVID LEATHERBARROW AND MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI
skin: surface, substance + design ELLEN LUPTON, editor
ijp: the book of surfaces GEORGE LIAROPOULOS-LEGENDRE
The Charged Void: Architecture ALISON AND PETER SMITHSON
Designing Cities for and with Children
Children in the City, Home, Neighborhood, and Community PIA CHRISTENSEN AND MARGARET O'BRIEN, editors
Growing Up in an Urbanizing World LOUISE CHAWLA, editor
Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth: A Manual for Participation DAVID DRISKELL     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: New York Unbound, edited by Peter D. Salins Power, Culture, and Place, Essays on New York City, edited by John Hull Mollenkopf Reviewed by Euginie L. Birch Planning in the Face of Power by John Forester Reviewed by DeLysa Burnier Rethinking Rental Housing by John I. Gilderbloom and Richard P. Applebaum Reviewed by Chris Hamnett Suburbia Re-examined edited bb Barbara M. Kelly Reviewed by Carl Abbott Life Spaces: Gender, Houshold, Employment, edited by Caroline Andrew and Beth Moore Milroy Reviewed by Marie Truelove Poverty, Ethnicity, and the American City, 1840–1925. Changing Conceptions of the Slum and the Ghetto, by David Ward Reviewed by Richard Harris     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Unequal Partnerships: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America, edited by Gregory D. Squires Economy, Polity and Urban Public Expenditure, by Keith Hoggart Commonplaces: Community Ideology and Identity in American Culture by David M. Hummon Post-Industrial Cities: Politics and Planning in New York, Paris, and London, by H. V. Savitch Building a Low-Income Housing Policy, by Rachel G. Bratt The Changing Geography of the Service Sector, by D. G. Price and A. M. Blair Urban Politics and Administration: From Service Delivery to Economic Development by Elaine B. Sharp     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory , edited by Mickey Lauria Challenging the Growth Machine , by Barbara Ferman. Lawrence A Prayer for the City , by Buzz Bissinger Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis , by Michael Danielson Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform , by Jean Anyon     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Housing Desegregation and Federal Policy, edited by John M. Goering, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. Deindustrialization and Plant Closure, edited by P.D. Staudohar and H.E. Brown. Lexington, MA D.C. Heath, 1986. Comprehensive City Planning: Introduction and Explanation, by M.C. Branch. Washington, DC: Planners Press, American Planning Association, 1986. Urban Systems in a Dynamic Society, by L. van den Berg. Aldershot, England Gower Publishing, 1987.     

期刊导航

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Toward a Sunbelt Urban Design Manifesto

Cities in the Sunbelt, with their own distinct development patterns, are the most rapidly growing urban centers in the country. Government programs and American life-style preferences spurred the growth of these cities, which are characterized by low density, open landscapes, spread out land uses, and automobile dependency. Traditional models of urban form do not work for the Sunbelt. The urban village concept developed by the City of Phoenix offers a new model, which practitioners are using to mitigate the urban problems in the Sunbelt.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Understanding Urban Unrest: From King to Rodney King, by Dennis E. Gale. City of Ambition: Artists & New York, 1900–1960, by Elisabeth Sussman with John G. Hanhardt and assisted by Corey Keller, with an essay by Brendan Gill. Exploring Urban America: An Introductory Reader, edited by Roger W. Caves The City Reader, edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire , by Karen Sawislak The Urban West: Managing Growth and Decline , by James B. Weatherby and Stephanie L. Witt Baltimore Unbound: A Strategy for Regional Renewal , by David Rusk City of Bits: Space, Place, and Infobahn , by William J. Mitchell Car Trouble , by Steve Nadis and James J. MacKenzie Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion , by Anthony Downs Real Places , by Grady Clay Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City , edited by David Rosner Seeds of Crisis: Public Schooling in Milwaukee Since 1920 , edited by John L. Rury and Frank A. Cassell     

Book Reviews and Notes

American Housing: Problems and Prospects. The Factual Findings by Miles L. Colean. The Program by The Housing Committee. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1944. Pp.xxii, 466. $3.00.

The New City. By L. Hilberseimer. Theobald, Chicago. 192 pp. Illustrated. $5.95

The New Architecture and City Planning. A Symposium, edited by Paul Zucker, published by Philosophical Library, New York, 694 pp. illustrated $10.00.

Community Centers. The Ministry of Education. London, H.M.S.O., 1944.

Planning Your Community: A Manual of Suggestions for Practical Community Planning. By C. Earl Morrow. New York City, Regional Plan Association, Inc., c. 1945, 50 cents.

Towards A Plan for Oxford City. By Lawrence Dale. London, Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.     

The City as the Nexus Model: Bridging the State,Market, Societal,and Geospatial Contexts

Cities serve as nexus, they connect and are shaped by politico-governmental (State), market-economic (Market), civil-societal (Societal), and geographic-natural (Geo-spatial) activities and/or events occurring at all spatial tiers. As a result, a thorough understanding of urban development outcomes requires a trans-disciplinary, integrated approach that draws upon multiple, even sometimes competing, scholarly paradigms. In the spirit of this, this article introduces The City as the Nexus Model, a new perspective for analyzing urban and regional development trajectories, which incorporates the ideas of Agglomeration, Urban Regime, World/Global City, and Nested City Theories, among others. By drawing upon the central themes of these sometimes competing perspectives, this new model shows how a combination of State, Market, Societal, and Geospatial factors uniquely shape economic and spatial outcomes in the world's city-regions. Most importantly, the article/new model provides scholars, practitioners, and students with a new trans-disciplinary framework to utilize in their own empirically-based studies of city-regions.     

Book reviews

Environmental Regulation in a Federal System: Framing Environmental Policy in the European Union. Tim Jeppesen
Innovation and the Growth of Cities. Zoltan J. Acs
International Finance and Open-Economy Macro-Economics. Giancarlo Gandolfo
Sports and City Marketing in European Cities. Leo van den Berg, Erik Braun, and Alexander H. J. Otagaar
China and its Regions: Economic Growth and Reform in Chinese Provinces (Series on New Horizons in International Business ). Mary-Francoise Renard (ed.)     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Changing Face of American Federalism , edited by Thomas R. Swartz and John E. Peck Challenging Uneven Development: An Urban Agenda for the 1990s , edited by Philip W. Nyden and Wim Wiewel     

BOOK NOTES

Trench, S., and Oc, T. Current Issues in Planning. Vance, J.E., Jr. The Continuing City. Drakakis-Smith, D. (Ed.). Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas. Leontidou, L. The Mediterranean City in Transition. Indiresan, P. V. Managing Development. Levine, M. V. The Reconquest of Montreal. Baross, P., and van der Linden, J. (Eds.). The Transformation of Land Supply Systems in Third World Cities.