Book reviews

Implementing Housing Policy. Peter Malpass and Robin Means (eds) Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, pp 194, £12.99.

Housing Policy in the 1990s. Johnston Birchall (ed) London: Routledge, 1992, pp 193, £12.99.

Housing Policy and Action. Peter Malpass, Matthew Warburton, Glen Bramley and Gavin Smart (eds) Bristol: SAUS, 1993, pp 115, £9.75.

Built to Last? Reflections on British Housing Policy. Carol Grant (ed). London: Roof, 1992, pp 177 £7.95 (paperback)

Dislodging the Welfare State? Housing and Privatization in Four European Nations. Lennart J. Lundqvist, Delft: Delft University Press. 1992. 144 pp.

The Crisis of London. A. Thornley (ed) London: Routledge, 1992. pp 213. £40 (hardback), £9.99 (paperback).

Hovels to High Rise. State Housing in Europe Since 1850. Anne Power. London and New York: Routledge, 1993. pp 434, £45.00 (hardback), £15.99 (paperback)

Government and Housing. W. van Vliet and J. van Weesep (eds).

Developments in Seven Countries. (1990). Volume 36, Urban Affairs Annual Reviews. Sage Publications, 1990. pp. 293 16.95

Housing Strategies in Europe, 1880–1930, C. Pooley (ed). Leicester University Press, 1992, £49.95

Housing Finance in the UK: An Introduction. Kenneth Gibb and Moira Munro, London: Macmillan Education Ltd, 1991. pp 266. £11.99 (paperback).     

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring the lands,waters and living resources of the United States

Landscape Transformed

London, Academy Editions, 1996, 112 pp., no price given, ISBN 1–85490–452–3

Sculpting with the Environment: a natural dialogue

Baile Oakes (Ed.)

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995, ISBN 0–442–01642–5, 252 pp., £45.00, hb.

After the Ruins: restoring the countryside of Northern France after the Great War

Hugh Clout

Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1996, ISBN 0–85989–491–6,332 pp., £35.

Environmental Aesthetics: ideas, politics and planning

J. Douglas Porteous

London and New York, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0–415–13769–1, 20 pp., £15.99.

Countryside Survey 1990 Main Report

C.J. Barr, R.G.H. Bunce, R.T. Clarke, R.M. Fuller, M.T. Furse, M.K. Gillespie, G.B. Groom, C.J. Hallam, M. Hornung, D.C. Howard &; M.J. Ness

London, Department of the Environment, 1993, 174 pp., £12.00 (available from DoE Publications Sales Unit, Block 3, Spur 2, Government Buildings, Lime Grove, Eastcote, HA4 8SE)

World of Environmental Design, Volume 1: Urban Spaces I (Streets and Squares)

Francisco Asenio Cerver

Barcelona, Arco Editorial, 1995, 255 pp., US$75 (per volume) ISBN 84–8185–004–7 (complete work), ISBN 84–8185–005–5 (Volume 1)

’The Remains of Distant Times’: archaeology and the National Trust

David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway &; David Thackray (Eds)

Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1996, ISBN 0–85115–671–1, hb, 235 pp., £29.50

Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing 1815–1852

D. Schuyler

Baltimore, fohns Hopkins University Press, 1996, ISBN 0–8018–5229–3, $35.95     

Book reviews

Meadowell: The Biography of an ‘Estate with Problems‘. M. Barke and G. Turnbull. Aldershot: Avebury, 1992. pp xii and 159. £32.50 (hardback)

Beyond Self‐help Housing. Kosta Mathey (ed). Munich: Profil Verlag and London: Mansell Publishing 1992 pp xiv + 4.17. £40.000

Housing Demography. Dowell Myers (ed). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991 £14.50

Housing and Social Theory. J. Kemeny. London: Routledge, 1992. pp 192. £35.00 (hardback)

Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: Middle‐class Formation in Contemporary Britain. M. Savage, M. Barlow, P. Dickens and T. Fielding. London: Routledge, 1992, pp 224. £40.00 (hardback)

Staying Put Revisited. Sheila Mackintosh and Philip Leather. Anchor Housing Trust, 1992. pp 102. £7.50.

The Politics and Pragmatism of Urban Containment. M. Murray. Aldershot: Avebury, 1991. pp viii + 280. £35.00 (hardback)

Building Capitalism: Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment. Linda Clarke. London: Routledge, 1992. pp 316. £65.00 (hardback) £19.99 paperback

The Visible Poor: Homelessness in America. J. Blau. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. pp 235. £19.50

Urban Housing: Segregation of Minorities in Western Europe and the United States. Elizabeth D. Huttman (ed), Wim Blauw and Juliet Saltman (coeds). Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. pp 431. $59.95     

Outbacks: the popular construction of an emergent landscape

CONSERVATION IN PERSPECTIVE edited by A. Warren and F. B. Goldsmith, 474 pages, John Wiley, London, 1983. £25 (hardback); £12.50 (paperback).

INVESTING IN RURAL HARMONY by Clive Potter, World Wildlife Fund, 1983, £1.25 (paperback).

Ken Parker, Peak Park Joint Planning Board,‐Bakewell.

NATURE'S IDEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE by Kenneth Olwig, 115 pages, Allen and Unwin, London. £15 (hardback).     

A new publication from the landscape research group

Charles Bridgeman and the English Landscape Garden

by Peter Willis 1977

£50 Studies in Architecture XVII A Zwemmer Ltd

Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England by Morris R Brownell 1978

£16 Oxford University Press

A WORLD WITH A VIEW ‐

An Inquiry into the Nature of Scenic Values

pp 196 (illus.) $15.00

MAPPING MOORLAND CHANGE ‐

A framework for land use decisions in the Peak District.

M. L. Parry: Peak District National Park. 1977     

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.     

School nature reserves in South Yorkshire

GARDENS OF PARADISE: THE HISTORY AND DESIGN OF THE GREAT ISLAMIC GARDENS, John Brookes, London: Weidenfeld &; Nicolson, 1987, 239 pp, £20.00

THE LANDSCAPE OF MAN, Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe, Revised and enlarged edition, Thames and Hudson, 1987, £12.95 (P/B).

Hugh Prince, Department of Geography, University College, London.

THE MODERN URBAN LANDSCAPE, Edward Relph, London, Croom Helm, 1987, 279 pp, 0–7099–4270–2.

PLANNING PARKS FOR PEOPLE by John Hultsman, Richard A. Cottrell, and Wendy Zales‐Hultsman. Venture Publishing Inc., State College, PA. 16803, USA, 1987 and by Spon, £32.50, 310 pp, 0–419–14400–5.

THE COUNTRY PARISH, Anthony Russell, SPCK, London, 1986, 296 pp, 0–281–04214–4, £9.50 (P/B).     

Book reviews

Reshaping Housing Policy: Subsidies, Rents and Residualisation. Peter Malpass. London: Routledge, 1989. pp196. £9.95 (paperback).

A Nation of Home Owners. Peter Saunders. London: Unwin and Hyman, 1990. pp418. £12.95 (paperback). £35.00 (hardback).

Ethnic Minority Housing: Explanations and Policies. Philip Sarre, Deborah Phillips and Richard Skellington. Aldershot: Avebury, 1989. xxiii, pp384. £35.00 (hardback). Research in Ethnic Relations Series.

Housing Policy in Developing Countries. Gil Shidlo (ed). London and New York: Routledge, 1990.

Rebuilding a Low‐Income Housing Policy. Rachel Bratt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. pp399.

Housing and Social Policy. D. Clapham, P. Kemp and S. J. Smith. London: Macmillan, 1990. pp274. £35.00 (hardback). £9.95 (paperback).

Privatism and Urban Policy in Britain and the United States. Timothy Bamekov, Robin Boyle and Daniel Rich. Oxford University Press, 1989. pp267. £35.00 (cloth).

Housing Policy: An Introduction. Paul N. Balchin. London, Routledge. 1989 second edition. 312pp. £30.00 cloth.     

Book reviews

The New Housing Shortage: Housing Affordability in Europe and the USA. Graham Hallett (Ed) London, Routledge, 1993, 270pp., £45, hardback

House, Home and Community: Progress in Housing Canadians, 1945–1986. John R. Miron (Ed) with Larry S. Bourne, George Fallis, A. Skabursis, Marion Steele & Patricia A. Streich

Montreal and Kingston, McGill‐Queens University Press and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1993, VIII + 456pp., £46.75

Cities, Poverty and Development: Urbanisation in the Third World. Alan Gilbert & Joseph Gugler Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1992, 2nd edition, 331pp., £13.95, paperback

Unhealthy Housing, Research, Remedies and Reform. R. Burridge & D. Ormandy (Eds) London, E&FN Spon, 1993, XXV + 443pp., £37.50 hardback

Housing Co‐operatives in Britain: Achievements and Prospects. David Clapham & Keith Kintrea, London, Longman, 1992, 219pp, £16.95, paperback

Urban and Regional Planning. Peter Hall London, Routledge, 1992, 3rd edition, 259pp., £40 hardback, £12.99 paperback

Slums and Redevelopment, Policy and Practice in England, 1918–45, with Particular Reference to London. J.A. Yelling UCL Press, 1992, 224pp., £35.00, hardback     

Book reviews

Housing, Race and Law. Martin MacEwen. London: Routledge, 1991. ppxvii + 490.

Deterioration of the Public Sector Housing Stock. Diane Diacon. Aldershot: Avebury, 1991. pp267, £32.50 hardback.

The Colour of Money. The Impact of Housing Investment Decision Making on Black Housing Outcomes in London. Beverley Mullings. London: London Race and Housing Unit, Runnymede Trust 1991. pp142. £7.95.

Third World Housing in Social and Spatial Development: The Case of Jakarta. Lars Marcussen. Aldershot: Avebury, 1990. pp205. £28.50.

Clearance: The View from the Street. Frances Heywood and Mohammed Rashid Naz. Birmingham: Community Forum, 1990. pp284. £10.95.

No Place Like Home: The Hostels Experience. P. L. Garside, R. W. Grimshaw and F. J. Ward, Department of the Environment. London: HMSO. pp131, plus four Appendices and Bibliography. £16.00.

Housing and Labour Markets: Building the Connections. John Allen and Chris Hamnett (eds). London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. pp304, £14.95 (paper).     

Book reviews

Housing Policy and Practice in Asia. edited by Seong‐Kyu Ha London: Croom Helm 1987. p197. Tables, figures, index. £25.00.

The Mortgage Market. by M. Boleat and A. Coles. Studies in Financial Institutions and Markets No 3. London; George Allen & Unwin, 1987. ppxi + 176. £25.

The Housing Morass: Regulation, Immobility and Unemployment. by Patrick Minford, Michael Peel and Paul Ashton. London: Institute of Economic Afiairs, 1987. pp 162. £6.50.

Rural Housing in Scotland: Recent Research and Policy. edited by Bryan MacGregor, Douglas Robertson and Mark Shucksmith. Aberdeen University Press. 1987. pp 224 £11.90 paper.

Property Before People, the Management of Twentieth Century Council Housing. by Anne Power. London: Allen and Unwin. 1987. £9.95 paper.

Housing, Dwellings and Homes: Design Theory, Research and Practice. by Roderick J. Lawrence. Chichester John Wiley and Sons. 1987. pp 290. £34.00 cloth.     

Book reviews

Landlords and Property. Social Relations in the Private Rented Sector. J. Allen and L. McDowell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. pp209. £30.00.

Housebuilding in Britain's Countryside. Mark Shucksmith. London: Routledge, 1990. pp234. £35.00

A Radical Agenda ‐ after the New Right and the Old Left. David Donnison, London: Rivers Oram Press, 1991. pp215. £9.95 (paperback)

Housing Policy in the Socialist Third World. Kosta Mathey (ed). London: Mansell, 1990. pp332. £40.00.

Living in a Man‐made World: Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design. M. Roberts. London: Routledge, 1991. ppl77 and vii‐xii £10.99 paperback.     

American overseas study programs in landscape architecture to Europe: an analysis of program goals

THE LAKE DISTRICT, LANDSCAPE HERITAGE, William Rollinson (Ed.), Newton Abbot, David &; Charles, 1989, 200pp., ISBN 0–7153–9077–5, £14.95.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN, AND PLANNING, Antoinette Paris Powell, London, Mansell, 1987, (original US ed'n by Oryx Press, 1987), 312 pp, 0–7201–1953–7, £45.00

DET FORäNDERLIGA LANDS‐KAPET — UTVECKLING OCH FRAMTIDSBILDER, (The Changing Landscape —development and future scenarios), Lars Emmelin &; Gunnar Brusewitz, 128pp., maps and tables. Esselte Herzogs, Uppsala, 1985. ISBN 91–36–02259–4.

LOUDON AND THE LAND‐SCAPE FROM COUNTRY SEAT TO METROPOLIS, Melanie Louise Simo, Yale University Press, 1988, pp. 337.

THE GARDEN IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE by Michael Waters, Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1988. pp. xii + 371. £30.00.

THE POETICS OF GARDENS, Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell &; William Turnbull, M IT Press, 1989, ISBN 0–262–13231–1.

THE SEARCH FOR THE PICTURESQUE: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760–1800, Malcolm Andrews, London, Scolar Press, 1989, 269pp., ISBN 0–85967–693–5, £45.00.

THE ROAD TO BOTANY BAY: An essay in Spatial History, Paul Carter, pp. xxv + 384, 32 plates, Faber &; Faber 1987, £15.00 HB, £6.95 PB.

VALUING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES IN THE USA, BRITAIN, AND AUSTRALIA, J. A. Russell, Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania, Occasional Paper 22, 1988, Hobart, ISSN 0810–4395, 107 pp, A$ 12.00.

COUNTRYSIDE PLANNING IN PRACTICE: THE SCOTTISH EXPERIENCE, P. H. Selman (Ed.), Stirling; University of Stirling Press, 1988, pp. 279, 0–948812–02–8.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: Theory and Practice, Peter Wathern (Ed.), ?London, Unwin Hyman, 1988, 322pp., ISBN 0–04–445042–7 HB, £40.00.

PROPERTY AND LAND‐SCAPE: A Social History of Land Ownership and the English Countryside, Tom Williamson and Liz Bellamy, George Philip, London, 1987. ISBN 0–540–01125–8.     

Book reviews

Hostels to Homes. T. Dant and A. Deacon. Aldershot: Avebury. 1989. £25.00 hardback.

Scottish Housing: Policy and Politics 1885–1985. Richard Rodger (ed). Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1989. pp250. £35.00.

Urban Decline. David Clark. London: Routledge, 1989. pp161. £25.00 (hardback).

Beyond the Inner City. David Byrne. Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1989. pp179. £9.99 (paperback).

Homelessness in Britain. J. Greve with E. Currie. York: Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust, 1990. pp32.

The New Homeless: The Crisis of Youth Homelessness and the Response of the Local Housing Authorities. R. Thornton. London: SHAC (The London Housing Aid Centre), 1990. pp86. £3.95.

Address Unknown: The Homeless in America. J. D. Wright. New York Aldine de Gruyter, 1989. pp170. DM42 (paperback).     

Book reviews

Cities, Housing and Profits: Flat Break‐up and the Decline of Private Renting. by Chris Hamnett and Bill Randolph. London: Hutchin‐son. 1988. 297pp. £25.00.

A Property‐Owning Democracy? by M. J. Daunton. London: Faber and Faber. 1987. 148pp. $6.95 (£3.95).

Loft Living: Culture & Capital in Urban Change. by Sharon Zukin. London: Radius. 1988. £8.95 (paperback).

Housing Association Law. by J. Alder and C. R. Handy. Sweet and Maxwell. 1987. 330pp. £26.00 (paperback).

The Design Professions and the Built Environment. edited by Paul L. Knox. London: Croom Helm 1988. 313pp. £35.00.

The Local State and Uneven Development. by Simon Duncan and Mark Goodwin. Cambridge: Polity Press (in association with Basil Blackwell). 1988. £8.95 (paperback).

Rehumanizing Housing. Necdet Teymur, Thomas A Markus and Tom Woolley (eds). London: Butterworths. 1988. pp196. £30.00.

Housing Policy and Tenures in Sweden. Lennort J. Lundquist. Gower 1988. pp173. FXX.

Housing in Postwar Canada: Demographic Change, Household Formation, and Housing Demand. John R Miron. Kingston and Montreal: McGill‐Queen's University Press. 1988. pp320. $35.00 (paperback).     

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

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     

Review

ENGLAND'S GLORY: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY THROUGH ENGLAND'S THREATENED LANDSCAPES, Introduction by John Le Carre, text by Gareth Huw Davies, London, Weidenfeld &; Nicolson/ C.P.R.E., 1987, 168 pp, £14.95.

THE WILD SIDE OF TOWN, Chris Baines, BBC and Elm Tree Books, 1986, 192 pp, £6.95 (P/B), £10.95 (H/B).

LANDSCAPE PLANNING by Tom Turner, Hutchinson Educational, 1987, 212 pp, £27.50.

AGRICULTURE: PEOPLE AND POLICIES, Cox, G., Lowe, P., Winter, M. (Eds.), London: Allen and Unwin, 1986, £18.00.     

Book reviews

Home Ownership: Differentiation and Fragmentation. Ray Forrest, Alan Murie and Peter Williams. London: Unwin Hyman, 1990. pp234. £12.95 (paper).

The Politics of ‘Race’ and Residence: Citizenship, Segregation and White Supremacy in Britain. Susan J. Smith, Oxford: Polity‐ Press, 1989. £29.50 (cloth), £9.95 (paper).

Housing Finance. David Garnett, Barbara Reid and Helen Riley. Harlow: Longman/Institute of Housing, 1990. pp171. £12.95.

Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World. Jorge E. Hardoy and David Satterthwaite. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd, 1989. pp ix + 374. £9.95 (paperback).

Moving the Housing Market. Ray Forrest and Alan Murie. Aldershot: Avebury. 1990. pp129. £27.50.

Under One Roof. Michael Ball. Harvester Wheatsheaf. 1990.     

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).