LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Abstract

Gender and Planning: A Reader

Four Trends Illuminating Gender, Planning, and Cities

Honoring the Landmarks of Feminist Planning Thought while Embracing the Future

Planning and Gender as Seen from the Global South

Cities, Gender, and Diversity: New Ways to Address Marginality in Gender-Conscious Planning

Gender and Planning for Students: A Partial and Welcome Reader

Methods, Information Systems, and Mapping

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

Land Use, Zoning, Growth Management, and Planning Law

Planning Policy and Politics: Smart Growth and the States

Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World

Community Development and Neighborhood Planning

Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods: Design for Environment and Community

Streets and Patterns

Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaboration for Better Public Places

The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis

Promise and Betrayal: Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

The Politics of Public Space

The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

Transportation

The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion

Parking Management Best Practices

Politics and Society

Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality

International Planning and Development

The Global Cities Reader

Planning and Urban History

The City: A Global History     

BOOK REVIEWS

Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900, 1940

Reconstructing Times Square: Politics and Culture in Urban Development

Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumfor's Writings on New York

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities

Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000: Frontier Town to Edge City

Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis

Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Eastern and Western Traditions

Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning

Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods: Achievements, Opportunities, and Limits

Social Town Planning

A Neighborhood Divided: Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility

The New Urban Paradigm: Critical Perspectives on the City

Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and their Governments

Cities on the Rebound: A Vision for Urban America

Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities

Constructing Suburbs: Competing Voices in a Debate Over Urban Growth

Transforming California: A Practical History of Land Use and Development

Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses, and Communities

Etopia: Urban Life, Jim But Not as We Know It

Digital Places: Living with Geographic Information Technologies

Ecology and Landscape Development: A History of the Mersey Basin     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Urbanists, 1865–1915, by Dana F. White Reviewed by Peter Hall The Dependent City: The Changing Political Economy of Urban America by Paul Kantor with Stephen David Reviewed by Harvey Molotch Urban Minority Administrators: Politics, Policy and Style, by Albert K. Karnig and Paul D. McCain (Eds.) Reviewed by Larry D. Terry The Humane City, by John R. Short Reviewed by David Ley Life Space and Economic Space: Essays in Third World Planning, by John Friedmann Reviewed by John O. Browder City: Rediscovering the Center, by William H. Whyte Reviewed by Morton B. Gulak Coleman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker, by Wilbur C. Rich Reviewed by June Manning Thomas     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Last Cacique: Leadership and Politics in a Puerto Rican City, by Jorge Heine Breakthroughs: Re-creating the American City, by Neal R. Peirce and Robert Guskind Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890–1945, by Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn Third World Cities: Problems, Policies, and Prospects, edited by John D. Kasarda and Alan M. Parnell Managing Fast Growing Cities: New Approaches to Urban Planning and Management in the Developing World, edited by Nick Devas and Carole Rakodi     

Housing and Economic Development in Indian Country: Challenge and Opportunity

Global Warming: Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment J. T. Houghton, G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1990. 305 pp. $34.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Leaving Eden to Protect and Manage the Earth E. G. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1991. 358 pp. $14.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Global Environmental Issues: A Climatological Approach David D. Kemp. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, London, 1990. 220 pp. $15.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Global Climate Change and Life on Earth Richard L. Wyman, editor. Rout-ledge, Chapman and Hall, London, 1991. 282 pp. $24.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Global Climate Change and California Joseph B. Knox and Ann Foley Scheuring, editors. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992. 184 pp. $12.95 (paperback).

The Environment: Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards: A Time for Discourse Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai, editors. Westview Press, San Francisco, 1992. 251 pp. $32.00 (paperback).

The Environment: Sustaining the Earth John Young. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990. 202 pp. $10.95 (paperback).

The Environment: Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities Frederick O. Sargent, Paul Lusk, Jose A. Rivera, and Maria Varela. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1991. 254 pp. $24.95 (paperback).

The Environment: Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, Jr., editors. Praeger, New York, 1992. 212 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Customer Service in Local Government: Challenges for Planners and Managers Bruce W. McClendon. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1992. 194 pp. $45.95, $34.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States and the Federal Government Alice M. Rivlin. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1992. 196 pp. $15.95.

Planning and Its Subfields: Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 Richard Edward DeLeon. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1992. 239 pp. $35.00, $14.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: The New Frontier for Land Policy: Planning and Growth Management in the States John M. DeGrove, with Deborah Miness. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 1992. 176 pp. $18.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 John M. Findlay. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992. 394 pp. $35.00.

Planning and Its Subfields: The Power of Maps Denis Wood. Guilford Press, New York, 1992. 248 pp. $35.00, $15.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Put up or Give Way: States, Economic Competitiveness, and Poverty John Sidor. Council of State Community Development Agencies, Washington, DC, 1991.243 pp. $20.00 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: North American Free Trade: Assessing the Impact Nora Lustig, Barry P. Bosworth, and Robert Z. Lawrence, editors. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1992. 274 pp. $28.95, $10.95 (paperback).

Briefly Noted: Electronic Byways: State Policies for Rural Development Through Telecommunications Edwin B. Parker and Heather Hudson, with Don A. Dillman, Sharon Strover, and Frederick Williams. Westview, Boulder, CO, 1992. 306 pp. $57.50, $18.85 (paperback).

Briefly Noted: Credit Where It's Due: Development Banking for Communities Julia Ann Parzen and Michael Hall Kieschnick. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1992. 275 pp. $29.95.

Briefly Noted: Reclaiming the Past Landmarks of Women's History Page Putnam Miller, editor. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992. 232 pp. $35.00.

Briefly Noted: Renewing Cities Ross J. Gittell. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992. 232 pp., $39.50.

Briefly Noted: Regions Reconsidered: Economic Networks, Innovation, and Local Development in Industrialized Countries Edward Bergman, Gunther Maier, and Franz Todtling, editors. Mansell, London, 1991. 312 pp. $80.00.

Briefly Noted: Defense, Welfare and Growth: Perspective and Evidence Steve Chan and Alex Mintz, editors. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992. 248 pp. $59.95.

Briefly Noted: The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973 Janet R. Daly-Bednarek. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1992. 292 pp. $37.50.     

Reviews

Books & Videos: Community Development and Neighborhood Planning, Northeast Passage: The Inner City and the American Dream [Video] Cornelius Swart and Spencer Wolf, producers. SydHonda Cinema Productions, 2002. 55 minutes. $250.

Economic Development, Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital James DeFilippis. Routledge, New York, 2004. 224 pages. $22.95.

Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Land Use Planning and Management John Randolph. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 664 pages. $55., The Environmental Planning Handbook for Sustainable Communities and Regions Tom Daniels and Katherine Daniels. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 2003. 524 pages. $74.95.

Infrastructure and Capital Facilities, Making Room for the Future: Rebuilding California's Infrastructure David E. Dowall and Jan Whittington. Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, 2003. 256 pages. $25.

International Planning and Development, Living with the Past: Historic Cairo [Video]Elizabeth Fernea, producer. 2001. First Run/Icarus Films. 56 min. $390.

Lagos/Koolhaas [Video], Sylvia Baan for Pieter van Huystee Film, producer. 2003. First Run/Icarus Films. 55 min. $390.

Amsterdam Human Capital, Sako Musterd and William Salet, editors. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2003. 384 pages. $45.

Irish Regional Development: A New Agenda, Eoin O'Leary, editor. Liffey Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2003. 248 pages. $29.95 (paperback).

Bread Day (Chlebni Den) [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1998. 53 minutes. $390.

From The East (D'Est) [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1993. 110 minutes. $440.

Magnitogorsk: Forging the New Man [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1996. 60 minutes. $390.

The Wild East: Portrait of an Urban Nomad [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 2002. 54 minutes. $390.

Sotsgorod: Cities For Utopia [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1995. 92 minutes. $398.

Planning and Politics, Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetics in an American Suburb James Duncan and Nancy Duncan. Routledge, New York, 2004. 262 pages. $22.95 (paperback).

Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe, H.V. Savitch and Paul Kantor. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002. 480 pages. $60, $19.95 (paperback).

Planning and Politics: Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetics in an American, Suburb James Duncan and Nancy Duncan. Routledge, New York, 2004. 262 pages. $22.95 (paperback).

The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds, Mike Stanton. Random House, New York, 2003. 442 pages. $25.95.

Securing the Spectacular City: The Politics of Revitalization and Homelessness in Downtown, a Seattle Timothy A. Gibson. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2004. 322 pages. $70.

Leasing Public Land: Policy Debates and International Experiences Steven C. Bourassa and Yu Hong Hong, editors. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 303 pages. $20.

Property Rights: Leasing Public Land: Policy Debates and International Experiences, Steven C. Bourassa and Yu-Hong Hong, editors. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 303 pages. $20.

Private Property in the 21st Century: The Future of an American Ideal, Harvey M. Jacobs, editor. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2004. 192 pages. $85.

Urban Design, Superbia!31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods Dan Chiras and Dave Wann. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2003. 170 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems Gwendolyn Hallsmith. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2003. 247 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland, editors. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 254 pages. $55, $32 (paperback).

Urban Villages and the Making of Communities Peter Neal, editor. Spon Press, London and New York, 2003. 258 pages. $43.95 (paperback).

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930 Terence Young. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004. 272 pages. $45.

Briefly Noted, Workforce Development Politics: Civic Capacity and Performance Robert P. Giloth, editor. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2004. 269 pages. $72.50, $24.95 (paperback).

Me++ The Cyborg, Self and the Networked City William J. Mitchell. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 269 pages. $27.95, $14.95 (paperback).

The Cybercities Reader Stephen Graham, editor. Routledge, London, 2004. 444 pages. $125, $34.95 (paperback).

World City Network–A Global Urban Analysis Peter J. Taylor. Routledge, London, 2004. 256 pages. $110, $29.95 (paperback).

Moving People, Goods, and Information in the 21st Century Richard E. Hanley, editor. Routledge, London, 2004. 336 pages. $120, $60.95 (paperback).

De-Coca-Colonization—Making the Globe from the Inside Out Steven Flusty. Routledge, New York, 2004. 256 pages. $85, $19.95 (paperback).

Forthcoming in the Journal: Spring 2005     

All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding

Urban Development Cityscapes and Capital Michael A. Pagano and Ann O'M. Bowman. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1995. 188 pp. $32.50.

Urban Revitalization: Policies and Programs Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, and Anthony J. Mumphrey Jr., editors. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995. 234 pp. $42.00, $19.95 (paperback).

Neighborhood and Community Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States Robert Halpern. Columbia University Press, New York, 1995. 257 pp. $49.50, $17.00 (paperback).

Organizing the South Bronx Jim Rooney. SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 1994. 283 pp. $18.95 (paperback).

Planning Theory Experts and Environmental Planning Bob Evans. Avebury, Brookfield, VT, 1995.154 pp. $55.95.

Communicative Planning Theory Tore Sager. Avebury, Brookfield, VT, 1994.288 pp. $59.95.

Paired Review Planning Ethics: A Reader in Planning Theory, Practice, and Education Sue Hendler, editor. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, NJ, 1995. 374 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

Planning Ethics: A Reader in Planning Theory, Practice, and Education Sue Hendler, editor. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, NJ, 1995. 374 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

Land Use Model Subdivision Regulations: Planning and Law (Second Edition) Robert H. Freilich and Michael M. Schultz. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 1995.375 pp. $59.95.

At Road's End: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities Daniel Carlson, with Lisa Wormser and Cy Ulberg. Island, Washington, DC, 1995. 168 pp. $37.50 (paperback).

Housing The Architecture of Affordable Housing Sam Davis. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. 208 pp. $30.00.

Downtown Living: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States Paul Groth. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1994. 401 pp. $35.00.

Planning for the Private Interest: Land Use Controls and Residential Patterns in Columbus, Ohio, 1900-1970 Patricia Burgess. Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, 1994. 258 pp. $59.95.

Environment Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements Lawrence E. Susskind. Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. 201 pp. $45.00, $14.95 (paperback).

Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife: Issues and Examples Douglas R. Porter and David A. Salvesen, editors. Island, Washington, DC, 1995.293 pp. $29.50 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields Building the Public City: The Politics, Governance, and Finance of Public Infrastructure David C. Perry, editor. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995. 250 pp. $54.00,$24.00 (paperback).

Guidelines for Preparing Urban Plans Larz T, Anderson. APA Planners Press, Chicago, IL, 1995. 231 pp. $49.95; $45.95, APA members.

Regional Development Theories And Their Application Benjamin Higgins and Donald J. Savoie. Transaction, New Brunswick, NJ, 1995. 422 pp. $44.95.

Briefly Noted City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village David Sucher. City Comforts Press, Seattle, WA, 1995. 176 pp. $18.00 (paperback).     

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: 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

TOWARDS COSMOPOLIS: Planning for Multicultural Cities. Leonie Sandercock. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 1998. ISBN 0471971987 (paperback). 258 pp.; bibliography. RRP $41.15.

THE MYTH OF THE POWERLESS STATE: Governing the Economy in a Global Era. Linda Weiss. Polity/Blackwell, Cambridge, 1998. ISBN 0745615821 (paperback). 260 pp.; index and bibliography. RRP $37.95.

SOCIAL CHANGE, SUBURBAN LIVES: An Australian Newtown 1960s to 1990s. Lois Bryson and Ian Winter. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. ISBN 1864486996 (paperback). 238 pp.; index and bibliography. RRP $29.95.

CONTESTING THE AUSTRALIAN WAY: States, Markets and Civil Society. Paul Smyth and Bettina Cass (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. ISBN 0521633060 (hardback). 280 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $90.00.

THE ECOLOGICAL CITY AND THE CITY EFFECT: Essays on the Urban Planning Requirements for the Sustainable City. Franco Archibugi. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 1997. ISBN 1859726534 (hardback). 243 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $96.50.

CITIES FOR TOMORROW: Integrating Land Use, Transport and the Environment. Hans L. Westerman. Austroads, Sydney, 1998. ISBN 0855885033 (paperback). Resource Document 202 pp.; Better Practice Guide. 394 pp.; index. RRP $180.00.

EAST WEST PERSPECTIVES ON 21ST CENTURY URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium. John Brotchie, Peter Newton, Peter Hall and John Dickey (eds). Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 1999. ISBN 1840143177 (hardback). 432 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $122.00.

MADE IN LANCASHIRE: A History of Regional Industrialisation. Geoffrey Timmins. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998. ISBN 0719045398. 334 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $145.00.     

Interface

Mobilising Knowledge Resources in the Global South: Learning by Doing and Learning by Thinking

Between Planning Practice and the Academic World: Some Comments from a Brazilian Experience

Thinking about Johannesburg

Learning by Doing

Finding and Sharing Knowledge Resources in the Global South     

Book reviews

Shelter Is Not Enough: Transforming Multi-Storey Housing. Graham Towers. Policy, Bristol, 2000. ISBN 1861341563. 259 pp. RRP £19.99.

Social Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Critical Introduction. Christine Cheyne, Mike O'Brien and Michael Belgrave. Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000. ISBN 0195584422 (paperback). 275 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP NZ$37.95, A$28.95.

Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging. Stephen Castles and Alastair Davidson. Macmillan, London, 2000. ISBN 0333643100. vii + 258 pp.; RRP $47.00.

Queer City: Gay and Lesbian Politics in Sydney. Craig Johnston and Paul van Reyk (eds). Pluto, Sydney, 2001. ISBN 1864031921. 322 pp. RRP $32.95.

Environmental Planning and Management in New Zealand. P. Ali Memon and Harvey C. Perkins (eds). Dunmore, Palmerston North, rev. edn, 2000. ISBN 086469363X (paperback). 401 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP NZ$66.00.

Resetting the Compass: Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability. David Yencken and Debra Wilkinson. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0643063854 (paperback). 416 pp.; endnotes and index. RRP $39.95.     

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.     

大学城规划与城市规划发展关系探讨

“和谐发展、共同繁荣”是当代城市规划的发展趋势,本文以大学城规划为载体,探讨中国大学城规划与城市规划的和谐发展关系。文章从国内外大学校园规划发展沿革、大学城发展沿革入手,分析了大学与城市的关系;总结出大学城规划与城市规划协调发展的几个要素;最后基于实例具体探讨了大学城规划与城市规划的发展关系。     

Policy Analysis on Building Regulations and the Recovery of Earthquake and Tsunami Affected Areas

The paper examines the situation and causes of recent big earthquake and tsunami disasters especially in the case of the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, and analyzes the damage to extract lessons on safety of buildings and recovery of cities from the view point of building regulations such as the Article 39 of the Building Standard Law. In addition, the Article 8 of the Ordinance of City Planning Law resulted in not so effective against tsunami in March 2011. Control mechanisms of building construction should be integrated into socio-economic, institutional, technical and other policy tools. In order to mitigate earthquake risk, all stages of building construction, from location, planning and construction to maintenance are important. Awareness creation is instrumental for building culture of safety and demands for intervention in disaster mitigation. The demands ultimately help in creating conducive environment for policy intervention, in realizing institutional mechanism of building code enforcement and land use control for the municipal authorities and in creating demand for competent professionals.     

IPHS Book Prize 2012: winners honoured in Sao Paulo

The Planning Heritage Study Group (PHSG) was established in 2010 as a collaborative research organization in the City Planning Institute of Japan in order to undertake research activities on planning history. The PHSG held the ‘Chinese planning history and Japanese planning history: exploring the possibility of future academic collaboration’ workshop held on 8–9 November 2013. The PHSG invited three upcoming scholars from China to discuss the possibility of future collaboration focusing on three categories: ‘Word and Concept’, ‘Education and Profession’ and ‘Heritage and Conservation’. The programme comprised a closed pre-workshop session on the first day and the open seminar in the annual conference of the City Planning Institute of Japan on the second day.     

城市设计的法律保障刍议

城市设计越来越多地运用于当前的城市规划管理中,但实际工作中城市设计的效能往往表现在技术层面上,作为城市规划编制与管理体系的一部分,城市设计的实施必须具备完善的法律保障体系。为此,必须修订《城市规划法》及《城市规划编制办法》中有关城市设计的内容,从制度维持、制度改良、制度创新三方面采取不同措施。     

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Frug, Gerald E. City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls Clark, Terry Nichols and Rempel, Michael (Eds.), Citizen Politics in Post‐Industrial Societies     

Claiming Invited and Invented Spaces: Contingencies for Insurgent Planning Practices

Insurgent planning practice is an emerging idea for counter-hegemonic urban planning in the Global South, derived (generalized) from empirical work on specific southern contexts (Watson, V. 2013. “Planning and the ‘Stubborn Realities’ of Global South–East Cities: Some Emerging Ideas.” Planning Theory 12 (1): 81–100. doi:10.1177/1473095212446301). In this paper, we position ourselves with Meth (2010. “Unsettling Insurgency: Reflections on Women's Insurgent Practices in South Africa.” Planning Theory and Practice 11 (2): 241–263) who argues that insurgence and insurgent planning practices cannot be generalized across contexts but requires specific case by case empirical analysis to understand tactics and strategies within very different political and institutional situations. This paper is based on empirical evidence from two specific case-by-case analysis of potential insurgent action in Kathmandu, Nepal. We find that if insurgence is to present hope for counter-hegemonic outcomes in the context of Nepal, it is contingent upon a maturity of grass-roots organization, sharing of power among these, what constitutes ‘planning’ in insurgent planning and how success of such actions is measured. There is also a strong role of the nature of social mobilization and the institutional context of planning.