Review

Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in 20th Century English Paintingby Christopher Neve, London, Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-15291-0, 166pp., £25.00.

The Aesthetics of Landscape by Steven C. Bourassa, London & New York: Belhaven, 1991, 168pp., £32.00, ISBN 1-85293-071-3

Countryside Recreation in a Changing Society by Carolyn Harrison, 1991, London, The TMS Partnership, 186pp, £16 PB.

The Child in the Country by Colin Ward, London, Bedford Square, 1990, ISBN 0-7199-1290-3, 208pp., £7.95 PB.

An Historical Geography of England and Wales edited by R.A. Dodgshon & R.A. Butlin, Second edition 1990, Sidcup, Kent, Harcourt Brace Jovanich Ltd., ISBN 0-12-219254-0, 590pp., £21.95 PB.

Britain 1740-1950: an historical geography by Richard Lawton & Colin G. Pooley, 1992, Sevenoaks, Edward Arnold, ISBN 0-7131-6550-2, 338pp., £14.99 PB     

Review

LANDSCAPE PLANNING: an international journal on landscape ecology, reclamation and conservation, outdoor recreation and land‐use management (p122pp Illus.)

LAND SHAPE by Caroline Tisdall.

A review of The Land: Twentieth Century Landscape Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and The Land published by Gordon Fraser (hardcover £6.00 softcover £2,75).

Courtesy The Guardian (November 28th, 1975).     

Review

COUNTRYSIDE PLANNING

Andrew W. Gilg, (Department of Geography), University of Exeter

Published by David and Charles. 255 pp.

SCOTLAND'S SCENIC HERITAGE

Countryside Commission for Scotland 1978 (100 ppBibl.)     

Review

NEW AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES, Report of a Study Undertaken on behalf of The Countryside Commission by Richard Westmacott and Tom Worthington during 1972. Countryside Commission, Cheltenham, Glos., Sept. 1974, 98pp.

“The integration of agriculture, forestry, and recreation”. Report of the thirteenth discussion meeting of the Institute of Foresters of Great Britain. 30 March to 1 April 1973. Oxford University Press. 1973. £1.50. pp89.     

Review

LANDSCAPE PLANNING: an international journal on landscape ecology, reclamation and conservation, outdoor recreation and land-use management (p122pp Illus.)

LAND SHAPE by Caroline Tisdall.

A review of The Land: Twentieth Century Landscape Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and The Land published by Gordon Fraser (hardcover £6.00 softcover £2,75).

Courtesy The Guardian (November 28th, 1975).     

Review

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Cities and the Creative Class Richard Florida. Routledge, New York, 2005. 208 pp. $85, $19.95 (paperback)

The Planning for Results Guidebook Lee Nellis Karen Van Gilder Sonoran Institute, Tucson, AZ, 2003. 104 pages. $14.50 (paperback).

Providence, the Renaissance City Francis Leazes, Jr. Mark T. Motte. Northeastern University Press, Boston, 2004. 352 pages. $29.95.

Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change Peggy F. Barlett Geoffrey W. Chase editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. 344 pages. $23.95 (paperback).

Toward the Livable City Emilie Buchwald editor. Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN, 2003. 301 pages. $18.95 (paperback).

Credit to the Community: Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the United States Dan Immergluck. M. E. Sharpe Armonk, NY, 2004. 328 pages. $79.95.

Raquel Pinderhughes. Rowman Littlefield Lanham, MD, 2004. 288 pages. $75.

The Property Tax, Land Use and Land Use Regulation Dick Netzer Editor. Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA, 2003. 324 pages. $130.

Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research Subhrajit Guhathakurta editor. Springer Velag, Berlin, 2003. 271 pages. $119.

Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It Alison Isenberg University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. 441 pages. $32.50.

Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas James R. Shortridge. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2004. 520 pages. $45.

The Human Sustainable City: Challenges and Perspectives from the Habitat Agenda Luigi Girard Bruno Forte Maria Caretta Pasquale De Toro Fabiana Forte editors. Ashgate, Aldershot, U.K., 2004. 574 pages. $104.95.     

Review

NEW AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES, Report of a Study Undertaken on behalf of The Countryside Commission by Richard Westmacott and Tom Worthington during 1972. Countryside Commission, Cheltenham, Glos., Sept. 1974, 98pp.

“The integration of agriculture, forestry, and recreation”. Report of the thirteenth discussion meeting of the Institute of Foresters of Great Britain. 30 March to 1 April 1973. Oxford University Press. 1973. £1.50. pp89.     

Review

THE EXPERIENCE OF NATURE: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE by Rachel Kaplan & Stephen Kaplan, Cambridge University Press, 1989, 337pp, £10.95 (p/b), 0-521-34939-7.

THE ECOLOGY OF URBAN HABITATS by 0. L. Gilbert, Chapman & Hall, London, 1989, 369pp, 0-412-28270-4, £35.00.

DIRECTORY FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: ORGANISATIONS IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1986-7, Michael J. C. Barker, ed., London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986. Second edition, pp. xviii + 278, £18.99, PB, ISBN 0-7102-0961-4.

THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: A SOURCEBOOK FOR THE 1990s, Gerald Dawe, ed., Birmingham: Centre for Urban Ecology, 1990, pp. 636, £55.00, PB, ISBN 0-907272-07-X.

PLANTS IN THE LANDSCAPE (2nd Edn.), by Philip L. Carpenter and Theodore D. Walker, W. H. Freeman, New York and Oxford, 1990, 401 pp., ISBN 0-7167-1808-1, £29.95 HB.

SPORTS GEOGRAPHY by John Bale, E. & F. N. Spon, 1989, 0-419-14390-4, £16.95 PB.

THE POLITICS OF PARK DESIGN: A HISTORY OF URBAN PARKS IN AMERICA by Galen Cranz, ISBN 0 262 53084 8, 347pp, London: M.I.T. Press, 1989, £11.25, P.B.     

Review

Richard Mabey, Home Country London: Century 1990 £14.95

A Tour of the Lakes in Cumberland. John Ruskin's Diary for 1830. James S. Dearden, (Ed.), with an Introduction by Van Akin Burd. Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1990.

The Landscape Vision of Paul Nash, Roger Cardinal. Reaktion Books, London, 1989. £9,95 paperback ISBN 0948462 02 7

M G R Cannell & M D Hooper, The Greenhouse Effect and Terrestrial Ecosystems of the UK London, HMSO, 1990. 56pp. £4.95

Amenity In Action, The Civic Trust Handbook of Community Initiatives compiled & edited by Deirdre Genet, Societies Development Officer, The Civic Trust (1989), (supported by the Shell Better Britain Campaign)

Sue Minter The Greatest Glass House: The rainforests recreated HMSO, 1990. £25.00     

Review

COUNTRYSIDE PLANNING

Andrew W. Gilg, (Department of Geography), University of Exeter

Published by David and Charles. 255 pp.

SCOTLAND'S SCENIC HERITAGE

Countryside Commission for Scotland 1978 (100 ppBibl.)     

Review

The Englishman's England by Ian Ousby, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, 244pp. 0-521-37374-3, £14.95

The Meaning of Gardens: Idea, Place, and Action, edited by Mark Francis and Randolph T. Hester Jr., Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1990, ISBN 0-262-06127-9, 283pp., £31.50 (HB)

Landscape Design Guide, edited by Adrian Lisney, Ken Fieldhouse & Jeremy Dodd, Property Services Agency, Gower Technical, 1990, Vol. 1 Soft Landscape 168 pp £35.00 VoL 2 Hard Landscape 191 pp, £35.00.

Great Plainsby Ian Frazier, London: Faber & Faber, 1990, 0-571-14260-5m £14.99, HB.

Designs on the Landscape: everyday landscapes, values and practice by R. A. Preece, London, Belhaven Press, 1991, ISBN 1-85293-172-8, 283pp, £39.00 H/B, £10.95 P/B.

Places of the Soul architecture and design as a healing art, by Christopher Day, Wellingborough: Aquarian Press, 1990, 192pp. £12.99

Reading the French Garden: Story and History, by Denise Le Dantec & Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1990, translated by Jessica Levine, 0-262-12144-1, £22.50.

People's parks: the design and development of Victorian parks in Britain, by Hazel Conway, Cambridge University Press, 1991 287 pp, ISBN 0521 39070 $79.50

City Sense and City Design: Writings and projects of Kevin Lynch edited by Tridib Banerjee and Michael Southworth MIT Press, 1990, 853 pp.

Cultural aspects of landscape, edited by Hana Svobodova 1990, Wageningen, Pudoc, 90220-1018-X, 180pp., Dutch florins 80.00. (PO Box 4, 6700AA Wageningen, Netherlands.)

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Making a Middle Landscape, Peter G. Rowe, Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press, 1991, 326 pp, ISBN 0-26218138-X £5.95