BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Looking for the Last Percent: The Controversy over Census Undercounts, by Harvey M. Choldin, New Brunswick, NJ Modernity and Housing, by Peter G. Rowe Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975–1991, by Richard Edward DeLeon Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor, by Jeffrey R. Henig, Princeton Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States, edited by Scott Commings & Daniel J. Monti The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space, edited by Robert Rotenberg & Gary McDonogh Minneapolis-St. Paul: People, Places, and Public Life, by John S. Adams & Barbara J. VanDrasek The Changing Canadian Metropolis: A Public Policy Perspective (2 vols.), edited by Frances Frisken     

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: 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

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: 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: 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     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed: Michael Peter Smith and Joe R. Feagin (Eds.), The Bubbling Cauldron: Race, Ethnicity, and the Urban Crisis Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster John S. Dryzek, The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses Evan M. Berman, Productivity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Strategies and Techniques     

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

Model Validation — Perspectives in Hydrological Science. Edited by Malcolm G. Anderson and Paul D. Bates.
Groundwater Lowering in Construction -- A Practical Guide , by P. M. Cashman and M. Preene.
Decentralised Sanitation and Re-Use -- Concepts, Systems and Implementation. Edited by P. Lens, G. Zeeman and G. Lettinga.
The EU Water Framework Directive: An Introduction , by Peter Chave.
Applied Hydrogeology (Fourth edition) , by C. W. Fetter.
Springs and Bottled Waters of the World. Edited by P. E. LaMoreaux and J. T. Tanner.
Rapid Detection Assays for Food and Water. Edited by Stuart A. Clark, K. Clive Thompson, C. William Keevil and Mark S. Smith.
Urban Rivers: Our Inheritance and Future. Edited by Geoff Petts, John Heathcote and Dave Martin.
Compensating for Wetland Losses under the Clean Water Act.
Microbial Pathogens and Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water: Health Effects and Management of Risks. Edited by G. F. Gaun, F. S. Hauchman and D. E. Robinson.
Strategic Environmental Assessment in Transport and Land Use Planning , by Thomas B. Fisher.
Economics of Water Resources -- The Contributions of Dan Yaron , by Ariel Dinar and David Zilberman.
The Precautionary Principle in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Paul Harremoes et al.
Transport Modelling in Hydrogeological Systems. By J. David Logan.     

Alexander Responds

Maintaining the Safety Net: Income Redistribution Programs in the Reagan Administration John C. Weicher, ed. American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., 1984. 204 pp. $17.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paperback).

The Social Contract Revisited: Aims and Outcomes of President Reagan's Social Welfare Policy D. Lee Bawden, ed. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1984. 250 pp. $28.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

The Attack on the Welfare State Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham, eds. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Ill., 1984. 209 pp. $8.95 (paperback).

The Stigma of Poverty: A Critique of Poverty Theories and Policies Chaim I. Waxman. Second edition. Pergamon Press, New York, 1983. 159 pp. $20.00 (cloth), $8.95 (paperback).

The New Politics of Inequality Thomas Byrne Edsall. Norton, New York, 1984. 287 pp. $15.95.

Approaches to Welfare Philip Bean and Stewart MacPherson, eds. Routledge &; Kegan Paul, London, 1983. 301 pp. $27.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paperback).

The State and the Poor in the 1980s Manuel Carballo and Mary Jo Bane, editors. Auburn House Publishing Co., Boston, 1984. 328 pp. $24.95 (cloth), $16.00 (paperback).

Applied Poverty Research Richard Goldstein and Stephen M. Sachs, editors. Rowman and Allanheld, Totowa, N.J., 1984. 305 pp. $25.00.

In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. Harper and Row, Warner Books, New York, 1982. 360 pp. $19.95 (cloth), $8.95 (paperback).

Population: A Basic Orientation Charles B. Nam and Susan G. Philliber. Second edition. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984. 384 pp. $23.95.

Opposition Planning in Wales and Appalachia Pierre Gavel. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1983. 246 pp. $29.95.

An Introduction to Rural Settlement Planning Paul J. Cloke. Methuen, New York, 1983. 380 pp. $17.95 (paperback).

Mount Laurel II: Challenge and Delivery of Low-Cost Housing Robert W. Burchell, W. Patrick Beaton, David Listokin, George Sternlieb, Robert W. Lake, and Richard L. Florida. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1983. 440 pp. $25.00 (paperback).

Rebuilding America's Infrastructure: An Agenda for the 1980s Michael Barker, editor. Duke University Press Policy Studies, Durham, N.C., 1984. 368 pp. $27.50.

Environmental Regulation of Industrial Plant Siting: How to Make It Work Better Christopher J. Duerksen. The Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1983. 232 pp. $15.00.

Facility Siting and Public Opposition Michael O'Hare, Lawrence Bacow, and Debra Sanderson. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1983. 223 pp. $28.50.

The Politics of Public-Facility Planning John E. Seley. Lexington Books, Lexington, Mass., 1983. 237 pp. $24.00.

Principles of Water Resources Planning Alvin S. Goodman et al., Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1984. 563 pp. $34.95.

Cities and Sickness: Health Care in Urban America Ann Lennarson Greer and Scott Greer, editors. Volume 25, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1983. 303 pp. $28.00 (cloth), $14.00 (paperback).

Health Care for the Urban Poor: Directions for Policy Edith M. Davis, Michael L. Millman, and associates: Patricia M. Alt, Albert A. Bocklet, Ann Lennarson Greer, David E. Hayes-Bautista, Ann Akridge Jones, and George D. Wendel. Volume 21, Conservation of Human Resources Series. Rowman and Allenheld, Totowa, N.J., 1983. 206 pp. $30.00.

A Social Geography of the City David Ley. Harper and Row, New York, 1983. 441 pp. $17.50 (paperback).

Remaking the City: Social Science Perspectives and Urban Design John S. Pipkin, Mark E. LaGory, and Judith R. Blau, editors. State University of New York Press, Albany, N.Y., 1983. 409 pp. $49.50 (cloth), $14.95 (paperback).

Urban Development in the Third World: Internal Dynamics of Lahore, Pakistan Mohammad A. Qadeer. Praeger, New York, 1983. 282 pp. $36.95.

Urban Life in Contemporary China William King Whyte and William L. Parish. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1984. 408 pp. $30.00.

The Planning Commissioner's Guide David J. Allor. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 1984. 186 pp. $13.95 (paperback).

Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind Ian I. Mitroff. Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco, 1983. 178 pp. $18.95.

Housing for the Elderly: The Handbook for Managers Rosetta E. Parker. Institute of Real Estate Management of the National Association of Realtors, Chicago, 1984. $19.95 (paperback).

The New Garden Apartment: Current Market Realities of an American Housing Form Carl F. Horowitz. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1983. 180 pp. $12.95 (paperback).

Planning for Organizational Success: A Practical Guide Roger Kaufman and Bruce Stone. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1983. 201 pp. $12.95 (paperback).

An MBO Approach to Long-Range Planning R. Henry Migliore. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1983. 241 pp. $21.95 (cloth).

Managing Organizational Performance Michael Nash. Jossey-Bass, Inc., San Francisco, 1983. 362 pp. $18.95.

The Entrepreneur in Local Government Barbara Moore, editor. International City Management Association, Washington, 1983. 214 pp. $19.50 (paperback).

Against the State: Politics and Social Protest in Japan David E. Apter and Nagayo Sawa. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1984. 271 pp. $22.50.

Public Policymaking Reexamined Yehezkel Dror. Transaction Books, New Brunswick, N.J., 1983. 370 pp. $19.95.

Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development Stanley Brunn and Jack F. Williams. Harper &; Row, New York, 1983. 506 pp. $19.50 (paperback).     

Toward an Urban Design Manifesto

Abstract

The Future of American Agriculture Daniel R. Vining, Jr. The Future of American Agriculture as a Strategic Resource Sandra S. Batie and Robert G. Healy, editors. The Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1980. 291 pp. $11.50 (paperback).

National Agricultural lands Study-Final Report 1981 US. Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C., 1981. 108 pp. $4.75 (paperback).

Farmland, Food and the Future Max Schnepf, editor. Soil Conservation Society of America, Ankeny, Iowa, 1979. 214 pp. $8.00 (paperback).

Ecological Planning for Farmlands Preservation: A Sourcebook for Educators and Planners Frederick Steiner. Washington State University Cooperative Extension, in cooperation with the WSU Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture and Whitman County Regional Planning Council, Pullman, Washington, 1980. 121 pp. Reprinted by American Planning Association, Chicago, 1982. $18.50 (paperback).

The Farm and the City: Rivals or Allies? Archibald M. Woodruff, editor. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1980. 184 pp. $12.95.

The President's National Urban Policy Report US. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1980. 315 pp. $8.00 (paperback).

The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities Carl Abbott. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1981. 317 pp. $19.95 (cloth), $9.95 (paperback).

Canadian Urban Growth Trends: Implications for a National Settlement Policy Ira M. Robinson. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, B.C., 1981. 168 pp. $15.95.

Nonmetropolitan America in Transition Amos H. Hawley and Sara Mills Mazie, editors. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1981. 840 pp. $27.50

Nonmetropolitan America in Transition Amos H. Hawley and Sara Mills Mazie, editors. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1981. 840 pp. $27.50.

Poverty in Rural America: A Case Study Janet M. Fitchen. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1981. 257 pp. $22.50 (cloth), $9.50 (paperback).

Gautreaux Housing Demonstration: An Evaluation of Its Impact on Participating Households Kathleen A. Peroff, Cloteal L. Davis, and Ronald Jones, in collaboration with RichardT. Curtin and Robert W. Marans. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1980. 202pp. $6.00 (paperback).

Tenant Management: Findings from a Three-Year Experiment in Public Housing Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, 269 pp. $24.50.

Condominiums: The Effects of Conversion on a Community John R. Dinkelspiel, Joel Uchenick, and Herbert L. Selesnick. Auburn House Publishing Company, Boston, 1981. 203 pp. $19.95.

America's Urban Capital Stock. Volume One: The Future of New York's Capital Plant David A. Grossrnan. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1979. 112 pp. $6.00 (paperback).

America's Urban Capital Stock. Volume Two: The Future of Cleveland's Capital Plant Nancy Humphrey, George Peterson, Peter Wilson. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1979. 77 pp. $6.00 (paperback).

America's Urban Capital Stock. Volume Three: The Future of Cincinnati's Capital Plant Nancy Humphrey, George Peterson, Peter Wilson. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1979. 66 pp. $6.00 (paperback).

America's Urban Capital Stock. Volume Four: The Future of Dallas's Capital Plant Peter Wilson. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1979. 42 pp. $6.00 (paperback).

America's Urban Capital Stock. Volume Five: The Future of Oakland's Capital Plant Mary John Miller, Marcy Avrin, Bonnie Berk, George Peterson. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1981. 80 pp. $6.00 (paperback).

America's Urban Capital Stock. Volume Six: The Future of Boston's Capital Plant Mary John Miller, Chester Johnson, George Peterson. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1981. 69 pp. $6.00 (paperback). Set of 6 volumes is $30.00.

Planning in the Soviet Union Judith Pallot and Denis J. B. Shaw. The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 1981. 303 pp. $25.00.

Soviet Urban and Regional Planning: A Bibliography with Abstracts Paul M. White. St. Martin's Press, New York, New York, 1980. 276 pp. $35.00.

The Urban Land Nexus and the State A. J. Scott. Pion Limited, London, 1980. 256 pp. $24.00.

Urbanization, Housing and the Development Process David Drakakis-Smith, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1980. $32.50.

Housing Cooperatives in Developing Countries: A Manual for Self-Help in low-Cost Housing Schemes A. C. Lewin. John Wiley &; Sons, New York, 1981. 170 pp. $33.75.

The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities Dolores Hayden. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981. 367 pp. $19.95.

Pioneers of British Planning Gordon E. Cherry, editor. The Architectural Press, Ltd., London, England, 1981. 232 pp. $8.95 (paperback) or approximately $17.50.

Continuous City Planning: Integrating Municipal Management and City Planning Melville C. Branch. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1981. 181 pp. $21.95.

Implementing Public Policy George C. Edwards, 111. Congressional Quarterly Press, Washington, D.C., 1980. 181 pp. $6.95 (paperback).

The Analysis of Policy Impact John G. Grumm and Stephen L. Wasby, editors. Lexington Books, D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1981. 209 pp. $23.95.

Why Government Programs Fail: Improving Policy Implementation James S. Larson. Praeger Special Studies, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1980. 124 pp. $18.95.

The Politics of Policy Implementation Robert T. Nakamura and Frank Smallwood. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1980. 201 pp. $14.95 (cloth), $6.95 (paper back).

Implementing Public Policy Dennis J. Palumbo and Marvin A. Harder, editors. Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Massachusetts, 1981. 168 pp. $19.95.

The Politics of Land-Use Reform Frank J. Popper. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1981. 321 pp. $20.00 (cloth), $7.50 (paperback).

Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials Robert C. Ellickson and A. Dan Tarlock. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1981. 1093 pp. $25.00

Environment and Equity: A Regulatory Challenge Daniel R. Mandelker. McCraw Hill, New York, 1981. 162 pp. $24.95.

Regional Landscape Analysis Paul F. Anderson. Environmental Design Press, Reston, Virginia, 1980. 248 pp. $19.50 (paperback).

The Socioeconomic Impact of Resource Development: Methods for Assessment F. Larry Leistritz and Steven H. Murdock. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1981. 286 pp. $23.75.

Women and the Social Costs of Economic Development: Two Colorado Case Studies Elizabeth Moen, Elise Boulding, Jane Lillydahl, and Risa Palm. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1981. 215 pp. $30.00.

Urban Public Transportation: Systems &; Technology Vukan R. Vuchic. Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1981. 673 pp. $38.95

Residential Traffic Management Daniel T. Smith, Jr., Donald Appleyard, et al., U. S. Covernment Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20590, December, 1980. 172 pp. $6.00 (paperback).

Miles To Go: European And American Transportation Policies James A. Dunn, Jr. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981. 202 pp. $19.95.

From Streetcar to Superhighway, American City Planners and Urban Transportation, 1900-1940 Mark S. Foster. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1981. 246 pp. $19.95.

Interstate, Express Highway Politics, 1941-1956 Mark H. Rose. The Regents Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1979.169 pp. $14.00.

Entropy: A New World View Jeremy Rifkin with Ted Howard. The Viking Press, New York, 1980. 305 pp. $10.95.     

Comment on Pierce and Shoup: Evaluating the Impacts of Performance-Based Parking

The Federal Government and Metropolitan Areas. Robert H. Connery and Richard H. Leach. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960. x + 275 pp. 4 figs. $4.75.

Boston: A Topographical History. Walter Muir Whitehall. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959. 244 pp. 117 illus. $4.95.

College Hill: A Demonstration Study of Historic Area Renewal. The Providence City Plan Commission with the assistance of Blair Associates, in cooperation with the Providence Preservation Society and the Housing and Home Finance Agency. Providence, Rhode Island, 1959. 213 pp. Illus.

Metropolitan Chicago: An Economic Analysis. Ezra Solomon and Zarko G. Bilbija. The Free Press of Glencoe, Illinois, 1959. xxii + 208 pp. 70 tables. 5 charts. $7.50.

The Law of Open Space: Legal Aspects of Acquiring or Otherwise Preserving Open Space in the Tri-State New York Metropolitan Region. Shirley Adelson Siegel. Regional Plan Association, Inc., New York, 1960. 72 pp. $3.50.

Securing Open Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements. William H. Whyte, Jr. Technical Bulletin No. 36, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C., 1959. 67 pp. Illus. $3.00.

Urban Planning and Municipal Public Policy. Donald Webster. Harper and Brothers, New York, 1958. xii + 572 pp. $8.00. (Text ed. $6.00.)

Politics, Planning and the Public Interest. Martin Meyerson and Edward C. Banfield. The Free Press of Glencoe, Illinois, 1955. S5S pp. Illus. $5.00.

Efficiency in Government Through Systems Analysis With Special Emphasis on Water Resources Development. Roland N. McKean. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1959. 336 pp., 39 tables, 4 figs. $8.00.     

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.     

Briefly Noted

Policy Indicators: Links Between Social Science and Public Debate Duncan MacRae, Jr. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1985. 414 pp. $36.00.

Applied Urban Analysis: A Critique and Synthesis Ian Cullen. Methuen, London and New York, 1985. 216 pp. $27.00 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Politics, Prices, and Petroleum: The Political Economy of Energy David Clasner. Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, San Francisco, Calif., and Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1985. 297 pp. $35.00 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback, available only from the Pacific Institute).

Small Cities and Counties: A Guide to Managing Services James M. Banovetz, editor. International City Management Association, Washington, 1984. 356 pp. $28.50 (paperback).

The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich and the Challenge of Urban Populism Todd Swanstrom. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1985. 252 pp. $24.95.

A City Divided: Johannesburg and Soweto Nigel Mandy. Macmillan and St. James, New York, 1984. 470 pp. $35.00.     

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:     

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

Book Reviewed in this article:
Affordable Water Supply and Sanitation. Proceedings of the 20th WEDC Conference, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 22–26 August 1994. Edited by J. Pickford, P. Barker, A. Coad, T. Dijkstra, B. Elson, M. Ince and R. Shaw.
Contaminated Land , by Stephen Tromans and Robert Turrall-Clarke.
E.C. Treaty and Environmental Law , by L. Kramer.
Mixing and Transport in the Environment. (Eds. Keith Bevan, Philip Chatwin and John Millbank.)
Stream Ecology, Structure and Function of Running Waters , by J. David Allan.
Operation and Maintenance of Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Systems: A Guide For Managers. Written for, and published by, the World Health Organisation.
Integrated Solid Waste Management: A Lifecycle Inventory , by Peter White, Dr-Ing Marina Franke and Peter Hindle.
Report 142: Control of Pollution from Highway Drainage Discharges. By Martin Luker and Keith Montague with contributions from 11 other individuals.
Tables for the Hydraulic Design of Pipes, Sewers and Channels. H. R. Wallingford and D. I. H. Barr.
The Ecological Basis for River Management. (Edited by D. Harper and A. Ferguson.)
Waste Incineration and the Environment. Issues in Environmental Science and Technology 2. (Eds. R. E. Hester and R. M. Harrison.)     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Economic Restructuring and Political Response, edited by Robert A. Beauregard City Executives: Leadership Roles, Work Characteristics, and Time Management, by David N. Ammons and Charldean Newell Planning Local Economic Development: Theory and Practice, by Edward J. Blakely Right Before Your Eyes: Penetrating the Urban Environment, by Grady Clay The Uncertain Future of the Urban Core, by C. M. Law, et al.     

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