Context and Modernity

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Book reviewed in this article:

Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing Tom Jones, William Pettus, and Mike Pyatok McGraw Hill

The Architecture of Affordable Housing Sam Davis

Democratic Architecture: Practical Solutions to Today's Housing Crisis Donald MacDonald

The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem Oleg Grabar

Weaving a Tapestry of Resistance: The Places, Power, and Poetry of a Sustainable Society Sharon E. Sutton

The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit Thomas J. Sugrue

Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit June Manning Thomas

America's 5 and 10 Cent Stores: The Kress Legacy Bernice L. Thomas     

Plan Reviews

The Unheavenly City by Edward C. Banfield: Little, Brown &; Company, Boston, Massachusetts, 1970. 308 pp. $6.95

Design For Development: The Torontocentered Region: by The Government of Ontario: Queen's Printer, Toronto, 1970.

Design For Development: The Midwestern Ontario Region: by The Government of Ontario: Queen's Printer, Toronto, 1970.

Housing: The Social And Economic Elements: By Wallace F. Smith: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1970. 511 pp. $12.95

The Urbanization Of America: An Historical Anthology: Edited by Allen M. Wakstein: Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1970. 502 pp. $5.50

Chicago: Growth Of A Metropolis: by Harold M. Mayer and Richard C. Wade: University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1969. 510 pp. $32.00

Town Planning In Frontier America: by John Reps: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1969. 473 pp. $13.50

Monumental Washington: The Planning And Development Of The Capital Center: by John Reps: Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1967. 221 pp. $12.50

Geographic Perspectives On Urban Systems: With Integrated Readings: by Brian J. L. Berry and Frank E. Horton Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1970. 564 pp. n. p.

Explanation In Geography: by David Harvey: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1970 (published in 1969 in Great Britain). 503 pp. n.p.

Network Analysis In Geography: by Peter Haggett and Richard Chorley: St. Martin's Press, New York, 1970. 348 pp n.p.

Reparations: by Arnold Schuchter J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, New York, 1970. 275 pp. $6.95

Rural Poverty And Regional Progress In An Urban Society: by Chamber of Commerce of the United States The Office, Washington, D.C., 1969. 268 pp. $3.00

Book Notes: The Unprepared Society: Planning For A Precarious Future: by Donald N. Michael Basic Books, New York and London, 1968. 132 pp. $4.95

The Citizen'S Guide To Urban Renewal: by Carl G. Lindbloom and Morton Farrah Chandler-Davis Publishing Co., Trenton, Trenton, N. J., 1968. 192 pp. n.p.     

Dutch Green Planning More Reality than Fiction

Atlanta: Race, Class and Urban Expansion Larry Keating. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2001. 256 pages. $69.50, $22.95 (paperback).

Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934–1997 Neil Kraus. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000. 294 pages. $59.50, $19.19 (paperback).

Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities Alice O'Connor, Chris Tilly, and Lawrence D. Bobo, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001. 559 pages. $36.

The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 461 pages. $39.95.

Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles Lawrence D. Bobo, Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson, Jr., and Abel Valenzuela, Jr., editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 611 pages. $39.95.

Detroit Divided Reynolds Farley, Sheldon Danziger, and Harry J. Holzer. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 309 pages. $27.95.

The Atlanta Paradox David L. Sjoquist, editor. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 300 pages. $27.95.

Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change Craig E. Colten, editor. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2000. 265 pages. $49, $19.95 (paperback).

Color and Money: Politics and Prospects for Community Reinvestment in Urban America Gregory D. Squires and Sally O'Connor. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2001. 202 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. North Point Press, New York, 2000. 290 pages. $30, $18 (paperback).

How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken Alex Marshall. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000. 243 pages. $24.95 (paperback).

Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen. Basic Books, New York, 2000. 298 pages. $27.50.

Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel Marlon Boarnet and Randall Crane. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. 224 pages. $60.

SafeScape: Creating Safer, More Livable Communities through Planning and Design Al Zelinka and Dean Brennan. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 2001. 285 pages. $75.

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality Benjamin I. Page and James Roy Simmons. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000. 409 pages. $29.

Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformation in Environmental Policy Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 323 pages. $25 (paperback).

Constructing Sustainable Development Neil E. Harrison. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000. 174 pages. $54.50, $17.95 (paperback).

Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000. 234 pages. $65.50, $21.95 (paperback).

Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, 2000. 244 pages. $35, $17 (paperback).

Captives of the Cold War Economy: The Struggle for Defense Conversion in American Communities John J. Accordino. Praeger, Westport, CT, 2000. 221 pages. $68.

Consensus Planning: The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Dutch Infrastructure Development Johan Woltjer. Ashgate Press, Aldershot, UK, 2000. 294 pages. $74.95.

Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience Robert Freestone, editor. E &; FN Spon, New York, 2000. 293 pages. $74.99.

The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples Charles T. Goodsell. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2001. 240 pages. $35.

Urban Planning, Housing and Spatial Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Nature, Impact and Development Implications of Exogenous Forces Ambe J. Njoh. Ashgate, Brookfield, VT, 1999. 270 pages. $69.95.

Neighborhood Poverty, Volume I: Context and Consequences for Children Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, and J. Lawrence Abner, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 334 pages. $16.95 (paperback).

Neighborhood Poverty, Volume II: Policy Implications in Studying Neighborhoods Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, and J. Lawrence Aber, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 238 pages. $13.95 (paperback).

Urban Planning and Development Applications of GIS Easa Said and Yupo Chan, editors. The American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, 2000. 283 pages. $39.

Homes and Hands: Community Land Trusts in Action Deborah Chasnoff and Helen S. Cohen, directors. Women's Educational Media, producer. New Day Films, 1995. 36 minutes. $125.     

Town and Country Planning in England's Northeast Section

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A SYMPOSIUM OF CURRENT PLANNING THEORY: Planning for America , By GEORGE B. GALLOWAY AND ASSOCIATES. Henry Holt and Co., New York; 713 pages, price $3.

A TEXTBOOK ON SUBDIVISION: Subdivision Regulations: An Analysis of Land Subdivision Control Practices. By HAROLD W. LAUTNER. Public Administration Service; 346 pages, price $3.75.

EMPLOYMENT IN THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF RESOURCES: Development of Resources and Stabilization of Employment in the United States. By THE NATIONAL RESOURCES PLANNING BOARD; 409 pages, price $1.20.     

Market Planning,Market Planners,and Planned Markets

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From the Review Editor

Planning Theory Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 1 Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson, editors. Routledge, New York, 2004. 384 pages. $130.

Methods, Information Systems, and Mapping Beyond Benefit Cost Analysis: Accounting for Non-Market Values in Planning Evaluation Donald Miller and Domenico Patassini, editors. Ashgate, Hampshire, England, 2005. 338 pages. $99.95.

Planning and Urban Design Standards American Planning Association. John &; Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. 736 pages. $200.

Land Use, Zoning, Growth Management, Planning Law Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe Robert J. Johnston and Stephen K. Swallow, editors. Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 2006. 288 pages. $70, $36.95 (paperback).

Community Development and Neighborhood Planning Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, editors. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2006. 416 pages. $34.95 (paperback).

New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures Emily Talen. Routledge, New York, 2005. 328 pages. $147, $44 (paperback).

Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips. American Planning Association, Chicago, 2006. 354 pages. $55.95 (paperback).

Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr., Krishna M. Akundi, and Alan F. J. Artibise, editors. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2005. 360 pages. $94.95, $39.95 (paperback).

Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City Bill Sanders. Routledge, New York, 2004. 256 pages. $122.50.

Transportation Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads Gabriel Roth, editor. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2006. 581 pages. $59.95, $29.95 (paperback).

Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources City and Environment Christopher G. Boone and Ali Modarres. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2006. 240 pages. $76.50, $25.95 (paperback).

International Planning and Development German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy: Restructuring Eastern Germany Sebastian Lentz, editor. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007. 190 pages. $89.95.

Return to the Center: Culture, Public Space, and City-Building in a Global Era Lawrence A. Herzog. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2006. 299 pages. $55, $24.95 (paperback).

Planning and Urban History The New Suburban History Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. 300 pages. $60, $24 (paperback).     

Book Reviews

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Book reviewed in this article:

Recent Works on the Theme of Technology and Place

The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century William A. Shutkin     

Costs of Suburban Services

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A BASIC PROGRAM FOR WAR HOUSING: A Program for Housing Workers in War Industries: Recommendations of the National Committee on the Housing Emergency. National Committee on the Housing Emergency, 512 Fifth Avenue, New York City; Mrs. S. I. Rosenman, Chairman. May 1942. 10c per copy.

A TEXTBOOK FOR PLANNING IN LOS ANGELES: Cities Are For People. By MEL SCOTT, Pacific Southwest Academy, Los Angeles. 1942. 110 pages.

PLANNING EDUCATION IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS: Education for Planners. By HUCRI S. MORRISON. National Resources Planning Board, Region 1, 2100 Federal Building, Boston, Massachusetts. June 1942. 80 pages, mimeo.     

Alvin Boyarsky (1928–1990)

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Book reviewed in this article:

Sverre Fehn: Works, Projects, Writings, 1949–1996 Christian Norberg-Schulz and Gennaro Postiglione     

Landscape design as research: an emerging debate

How I Made the World: shaping a view of landscape

Jay Appleton

Hull, University of Hull Press, 1994, ISBN 0–85958–620–0, 255 pp.

Regency Gardens

Mavis Batey

Princes Risborough, Shire, 1995, ISBN 0–7478–0289–0, 96 pp, £5.99

Walter Burley Griffin: landscape architect

Peter Harrison, edited by Robert Freestone

Canberra, National Library of Australia, 1995, 105 pp., ISBN 0–642–10644–4 (pb); 0–642–10645–2 (hb)

Landscape Review, 1995 Issue 2, ‘Languages of Landscape Architecture‘

Canterbury (NZ), Lincoln University Press, ISBN 0–909049–01–7, 64 pp

Land Art

Gilles A. Tiberghien

London, Art Data, 1995, 311 pp., col. and b. &; w. illus., ISBN 09–488–3517–6, $45.00

Geomorphology of Desert Dunes

Nicholas Lancaster

London, Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0–415–06093–1, £55.00, hb, ISBN 0–415–06094‐X, £17.99, pb     

A Review of “Transport and Ethics: Ethics and the Evaluation of Transport Policies and Projects”

URBAN GROWTH DYNAMICS IN A REGIONAL CLUSTER OF CITIES by F. Stuart Chapin, Ir. and Shirley F. Weirs John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1962. 484 pp. $8.95.

THE COMMUNITY ECONOMIC BASE STUDY by Charles M. Tiebout Committee for Economic Development, New York, N. Y., 1962. 86 pp., 6 figs., 12 tables. $1.50.

INDUSTRIAL RENEWAL by Chester Rapkin and others Bureau of Urban Affairs, New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, New York, N. Y., 1963. 77 pp., 12 figs., 29 tables.

INTENSITY OF DEVELOPMENT AND LIVABILITY OP MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING PROJECTS: DESIGN QUALITIES OF EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN HOUSING PROJECTS by Robert D. Katz (F.H.A. Technical Study TS 7.14.) Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1963. v + 115 pp. 79 illustrations, 3 appendices. $2.00.

LAKE EUROPA: A NEW CAPITAL FOR A UNIFIED EUROPE by 1, Marshall Miller New York: Books International, 1963. 114 pp. $3.75.

CONTROLLING LONDON'S GROWTH by Donald L. Foley University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, 1963. 224 pp. $5.00.

LONDON 2000 by Peter Hall Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1963. 220 pp. Illustrated. 55s.     

School Siting

Problem: The United States is embarking on an unprecedented era of school construction even as debate continues over where schools should be located and how much land they should occupy.

Purpose: My three goals for this study were to trace the evolution of school siting standards, to explain the factors currently influencing school facility location decisions, and to identify what local and regional planners could contribute to school siting decisions.

Methods: I reviewed the land use planning and educational facilities literatures on school siting and conducted in-depth interviews with school facility planners from 10 counties in Maryland and northern Virginia to assess their perspectives on the school planning process.

Results and conclusions: I discovered that different groups use very different definitions of community school. Smart growth proponents advocate community schools that are small and intimately linked to neighborhoods, while school facility planners expect community schools to meet the needs of entire localities. I recommend that individual communities consider the tradeoffs associated with different school sizes and make choices that meet local preferences for locations within walking distance of students, potential for sports fields, school design, and connections to neighborhoods. State school construction and siting policies should support flexibility for localities.

Takeaway for practice: Local and regional planners should work with school facility planners to conduct exercises and charettes to help each community determine how to realize its own vision of community schools.

Research support: The School of Architecture at the University of Virginia and the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported this research.     

book reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Karel Teige/1900–1950: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde Eric Dluhosch and Rostislav Švácha, eds.
Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings Karel Teige
10 × 10 Vivian Constantinopulus, editor     

Imagining culture and the city in planning history: some reflections on the public and private

Geography, planning and policy making. P. T. Kivell and J. T. Coppock (eds), GeoBooks, Norwich, 1986. 310 pp, £25.00 $41.25, ISBN 0 86094 211 2

Counterurbanization. International case studies of socio‐economic change in the rural areas. Ronald Perry, Ken Dean and Bryan Brown, GeoBooks, Norwich, 1986. 280 pp, £25.00 $41.25, ISBN 0 86094 205 8

The twentieth century American city: problem, promise, and reality. Jon C. Teaford, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1986. 192 pp, $20.00 cloth ISBN 0 8018 3094 X $8.95 paper ISBN 0 8018 3096 6

San Francisco, 1865–1932: politics, power and urban development. William Issel and Robert W. Cherny, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986. 294 pp, $35.00, ISBN 0 520 05263 3

The limits of power: great fires and the process of city growth in America. Christine Meisner Rosen, University Press, Cambridge, 1986. 395 pp, £30.00, $39.50, ISBN 0 521 30319 2

Critical issues in urban economic development. Volumes I and II. Victor A. Hausner (ed.), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986–7. 235 pp and 207 pp, £22.50 each, ISBN 0 19 823226 7 and ISBN 0 19 823268 3

The elusive city; five centuries of design, ambition and miscalculation. Jonathan Barnett, Harper and Row, New York, 1986. 210 pp, $23.50, ISBN 0 06 430377 2

The conservation of ecosystems and species. Gareth E. Jones, Croom Helm, London, 1987. 277 pp, £27.50, ISBN 0 7099 1463 6

Medicine and industrial society. A history of hospital development in Manchester and its region, 1752–1946. John V. Pickstone, University Press, Manchester, 1985. 369 pp, £35.00, ISBN 0 7190 1809 9

The paradox of professionalism: reform and public service in urban America, 1900–1940. Don S. Kirschner, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., Contributions in American History, 119, 1986. 195 pp, $32.95, ISBN 0 313 25345 5

An organisational approach to regional planning. Mario Rui Martins, Gower, Aldershot, 1986. 244 pp, £18.50 ISBN 0 566 00515 8

The tenant movement in New York City, 1904–1984. Ronald Lawson (ed.), Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1986 289 pp, $35.00 cloth $15.00 paper, ISBN 0 8135 1158 5

The Scottish thirties. An architectural introduction. Charles McKean, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1987. 200 pp, £17.50 hb ISBN 0 7073 0493 8, £8.50 pb ISBN 0 7073 0493 6

Hikaku Toshi Keikaku Josetsu (Introduction to comparative urban planning; land use controls in Britain and the US). Shun‐ichi Watanabe, Sanseido, Tokyo, 1985. 304 pp, ¥3600, ISBN 4 385 30895 0

Arabic‐Islamic cities. Building and planning principles. Besim Selim Hakim, KPI, London, 1986. 192 pp, £35.00, ISBN 0 7103 0094 8

Imagining tomorrow: history, technology, and the American future. Joseph J. Corn (ed.), MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986. 237 pp, $17.50 cloth, ISBN 0 262 03115 9     

Book reviews

Housing in Scotland. Hector Currie & Alan Murie (Eds). Chartered Institute of Housing. Policy and Practice Series, £15.00 paperback. ISBN 0 901607 91 6.

The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments. D. Benjamin (Ed.). Avebury, Aldershot 1995, £37.00 hardback. ISBN 1 856628 8889.

Rethinking Local Democracy. Desmond King & Gerry Stoker (Eds). Macmillan, London, 1996, 233 pp, £13.95, paperback. ISBN 8039 8864 8.

An Introduction to Social Housing. Paul Reeves. Arnold, London, 1996, 273 pp, £13.99, paperback. ISBN 0 340 661976.

Representing the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty‐First Century Metropolis. Anthony D. King (Ed.). Macmillan Press, London, 1996, £13.99, paperback. ISBN 0 333601920.

Homeless. Gerald Daly. Routledge, London, 1996, 293 pp., £14.95. ISBN 0415 12029 2.

The Environmental Impact of Land and Property Management. Yvonne Rydin (Ed.). Wiley, Chichester, 1996, 196 pp., £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 471966126.

Conservation and the City. Peter Larkham. Routledge, London, 1996, 329 pp., £17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 079478.     

Book reviews

Success and Failure in Housing Provision. European Systems Compared. James Barlow & Simon Duncan. Oxford, New York & Tokyo, Pergamon, 1994, 170 pp., £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 080 41029 4

Housing Women. R. Gilroy & R. Woods. London, Routledge, 1994, £40.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0415 09462 3/09463 1

The Gypsy and the State: The Ethnic Cleansing of British Society. Derek Hawes & Barbara Perez. Bristol, School for Advanced Urban Studies, 1995, 159 pp., £12.95. ISBN 1 873575 769

Urban Land and Property Markets The Netherlands. D. B. Needham, B. Kruijt & P. Koenders. 1993, 228 pp., £38

Germany. H. Dietrich, E. Dransfeld & W. Voß. 1993, 275 pp., £40

France. R. Acosta & V. Renard. 1993, 166 pp., £40

The UK. R. H. Williams & B. Wood. London, UCL Press, 1994, 275 pp., £40

Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City (Urban Affairs Annual Review 41). Robert Fisher & Joseph Kling (Eds). Newbury Park, Sage, xxiii & 338 pp., £19.95, paperback. ISBN 0 803942

International Counterurbanization. British Migrants in Rural France. Henry Buller & Keith Hoggart. Aldershot, Avebury, 1994, £30. ISBN 1 85628 508 1     

Book reviews

Housing Finance in the 1990s. C. Whitehead & B. Turner (Eds)National Swedish Institute for Building Research, Gavle, 1993, 330 pp., ISBN 91–7111–068–2

Markets and Managers—New Issues in the Delivery of Welfare. Peter Taylor Gooby & Robyn Lawson (Eds) Buckingham, Open University Press, 1993, 190 pp., £37.50 hardback, £12.99 paperback

Housing Finance and Subsidies in Britain. Duncan Maclennan & Kenneth Gibb (Eds) Aldershot, Avebury, 1993, 218 pp., £35

The Estate Action Initiative: Council Housing Renewal, Management and Effectiveness. Ricardo Pinto Aldershot, Avebury, 1993, 286 pp., £35

Keeping to the Marketplace: the Evaluation of Canadian Housing Policy. John C. Bacher Montreal and Kingston, McGill‐Queens University Press, 1993, 327 pp., C$55.00, £42.45 UK

The Reform of Housing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. B. Turner, J. Hegedüs & I. Tosics London, Routledge, 1992, 362 pp., £45 hardback

Neighbour Disputes: Responses by Social Landlords. Valerie Karn, Rachel Liskinn, David Hughes & John Cawley Coventry Institute of Housing, 1993, 158 pp.     

Book reviews

Urban Policy Evaluation: Challenge and Change. R. Hambleton & H. Thomas (Eds). Liverpool, Paul Chapman, 1995, 258 pp., £17.95 ISBN 1–85396–271–6

Environmental Strategy and Sustainable Development. R. Welford. Routledge, London, 1995, 217 pp, £12.99, ISBN 0–415–10552–8

Urban Agriculture in Zimbabwe. B. Mbiba. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, VT, 1995, £35.00, ISBN 185628 857 9

Housing Women. Rose Gilroy & Roberta Woods (Eds.). London, Routledge, 1994, 304 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0–415–09463–1

Census User's Handbook. S. Openshaw (Ed.). Longmans, 1995, 454 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0–470234–814

Reconstituting Rurality. J. Murdoch & T. Marsden. London, UCL Press, 1994, 272 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1–85728–041–5

Development and Administration of Prague. M. Barlow, P. Dostal, & M. Hampl (Eds). Amsterdam, Instituut voor Sociale Geographie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1994, 170 pp., 35DG, ISBN 9–06993–086‐Z

Local Development, Restructuring, Locality and Local Initiative in Portugal. S. Syrett. Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 371 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1 85628 484 0     

Book reviews

Housing Systems in Europe Part I A Comparative Study of Housing Policy. Peter Boelhouwer & Harry van der Heijden 314 pp

Part II A Comparative Study of Housing Finance. Oscar Papa 207 pp Delft University Press, 1992

Time to put our House in Order. John Newton The Catholic Housing Aid Society, 1993, 88 pp., £9.50 paper

Repossessed. A Fresh Look at Mortgage Lending Practice. Sarah Jenkinson The Catholic Housing Aid Society, 1992, 73 pp., £7.50, paper

All in One Place. The British Housing Story 1971–1990. John Newton The Catholic Housing Aid Society, 1991, 109 pp., £7.99, paper

Housing for Life. Christine Davies E. & F. N. Spon, 1992, 168 pp., £14.95

Whatever Happened to Local Government?. Allan Cochrane Open University Press, 1993, 124 pp., £10.99

In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America. Alan Gilbert, in association with Oscar Olinto Camacho, Rene Coulomb and Andres Necochea. London, UCL Press, 1993, pp. 192, £35     

New landscape of the city

A VISUAL APPROACH TO PARK DESIGN by A. J. Rutledge, John Wiley, 1985. 180pp.

FIFTY YEARS OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN: 1934–84 Edited by Sheila Harvey and Stephen Rettig, Landscape Press, 1985.

DES PAYSAGES, POUR QUI? POURQUOI? COMMENT? by Georges Neuray, Les Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux, Belgium, 1982, 589 pp. 1640 Belgian Francs.

THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY by Professor David Lowenthal, Cambridge University Press, 1985, 490 pp, £27.50 (H/B), £9.95 (P/B).

INTERPRETING THE LANDSCAPE: LANDSCAPE ARCHAEOLOGY IN LOCAL STUDIES by Michael Aston. B. T. Batsford, London 1985. Price £9.95 (P/B).

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: A SECOND LOOK, by R. Westmacott and T. Worthington, Countryside Commission (CCP 168, 1984) £7.00

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: AN APPROACH TO THE IMPROVEMENT, by P. Hamilton and J. Woolcock, Countryside Commission (CCP 169, 1984) £8.00

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES: DEMONSTRATION FARMS, by R. Cobham et al, Countryside Commission (CCP 170, 1984) £13.00

REVIEWS OF UNITED KINGDOM STATISTICAL SOURCES, VOLUME XVII, Weather by B. W. Atkinson and Water by E. C. Penning‐Rowsell and D. J. Porter. Published for the Royal Statistical Society and Economic and Social Research Council by Pergamon Press, 1985, 266 pp.

THE COUNTRYSIDE HANDBOOK by Alan Rogers, John Blunden and Nigel Curry, Open University/Croom Helm, 1985, 98 pp, £5.95.

THE CHANGING COUNTRYSIDE — edited by John Blunden and Nigel Curry. Open University/Croom Helm, 1985, 270 pp, £11.95.     

Book Reviews

Anthony Vidler, Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.

Harry F. Mallgrave, Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.