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: 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 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: 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: City of Quartz, Excavating the Future of Los Angeles , by Mike Davis A Nation in Denial: The Truth about Homelessness , by Alice S. Baum and Donald W. Burnes The Suburban Racial Dilemma , by W. Dennis Keating The Hudnut Years in Indianapolis, 1976–1991 , by William H. Hudnut, III The Formation of American Local Governments: Private Values in Public Institutions , by Nancy Burns The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty , by Jill Quandagno Homestead: The Glory and Tragedy of an American Steel town , by William Serrin, Local Attachments: The Making of an American Union Neighborhood, 1850–1920 , by Alexander von Hoffman The Global Migration Crisis: Challenge to States and to Human Rights , by Myron Weiner     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Neighborhood Regeneration: An International Evaluation, edited by Rachelle Alterman and Goran Cars Managing Local Government: Public Administration in Practice, by Richard D. Bingham, et al. Collaborative Communities: Cohousing, Central Living, and Other New Forms of Housing with Shared Facilities, by Dorit Fromm A Fragile Movement: The Struggle for Neighborhood Stabilization, by Juliet Saltman     

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: 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

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: America Becomes Urban , by Eric H. Monkkonen Keep Out: The Struggle for Land Use Control , by Sidney Plotkin Cities, Housing, and Profits: Flat Break-up and the Decline of Private Renting , by Chris Hamnett and Bill Randolph Metropolitan Organization: The St. Louis Case , by R.B. Parks, R.J. Oakerson Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis , by Ann Durkin Keating     

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     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape , by James Howard Kunstler. Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century , by James Howard Kunstler. Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Urban Health Care , by Laurie Kaye Abraham. Social Policies for Children , edited by Irwin Garfinkel, Jennifer L. Hochschild, and Sara S. McLanahan. Innovative Governments: Creative Approaches to Local Problems , edited by Douglas J. Watson.     

Book reviews

Public Housing: Current Trends and Future Developments. edited by David Clapham and John English London: doom Helm, 1987.174pp. £22.50 cloth.

Shelter, Settlement and Development. edited by Lloyd Rodwin, Foreword by Dr Arcot Ramachandran, London: Allen & Unwin, 1987. 476 + xviipp. £30.

Building Communities the Co‐operative Way. by Johnston Birchall, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988 223pp. £14.95.

The Weller Way. The Story of the Welter Street"s Housing Co‐operative. by Alan McDonald, London: Faber and Faber 1987 222pp. £2.95.

The Property Owing Democracy. edited by John Doling, Janet Ford and Bruce Stafford: Gower, 1988. 259pp. £25.     

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: Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods: Progressive City Government in Chicago: 1983–1987, edited by Pierre Clavel and Wim Wiewel 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York, by Clifton Hood Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future, by Donella Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers     

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.     

Designing farm buildings — problems facing the architect

LAND INTO LANDSCAPE by John M. Hunter, George Godwin/Longmans, 1985, 182 pp, £25.00

EATON ESTATE: LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION PLAN: Abridged Version of the Landscape Consultants’ Report by Ian Laurie et al, Department of Town and Country Planning: University of Manchester, 1983.

DISCOVERING THE VERNACULAR LANDSCAPE by John B. Jackson, 165 pages, Yale University Press, 1984, $16.50.

THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF OUTDOOR RECREATION ON MOUNTAIN AREAS IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA edited by N. G. Bayfield and G. C. Barrow. Published by Recreation Ecology Research Group 1985, Report No. 9.     

A Tool for Managerial Analysis in Land Development

HOUSING SUBSIDIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND ENGLAND: by Daniel R. Mandelker: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1973. 246 pp. $9.50

HOUSING THE URBAN POOR: A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF FEDERAL HOUSING POLICY: by Arthur Solomon MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1974. 227 pp. $12.00 (Cloth)

ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF TELEVISION REGULATION: by Roger G. Noll, Merton J. Peck and John J. McGowan: The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1973. 342 pp. $8.95 (Cloth)

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND CITY PLANNING: by Jean-Pierre Muret (editor), et. al: International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP); Centre de Reicherche d'Urbanisme (CRU), 1972, 226 pp.

TWO BRAZILIAN CAPITALS: ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM IN RIO DE JANEIRO AND BRASILIA: by Norma Evenson: Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1973. 225 pp. (Cloth)

KOMMUNALE ENTWICKLUNGANALYSE UND STADTEBAULICHE KALKULATION (Analysis of Municipal Development and Financial Evaluation of Urban Growth: A Study Related to Small Town Planning: By Herbert Grabe: Karl Kramer, Verlag, Stuttgart, 1970. 152 pp. 67 illustrations, 69 tables. DM 38.-(PB)

OPENING UP THE SUBURBS: ON URBAN STRATEGY FOR AMERICA: by Anthony Downs Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1973. 229 pp. $7.95 (Cloth)