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     

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.)     

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).     

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     

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.     

Landscape news

Perhaps the key feature about upland landscapes in general is that they demonstrate quite distinctive regional variety and identity. Maintaining the distinct identity or ‘landscape image’ should perhaps be the most basic aim of uplands landscape policy.

Government agencies and local authorities should address themselves to devising landscape policies for the uplands based on conservation of special heritage landscapes, implementation of conservation and development packages in suitable areas, and creation of new upland landscapes in areas where change is acceptable.

Although it is difficult to determine the values in upland landscapes, it should be possible to identify areas where different policies should apply, by considering scenic value, ecological value, historical value, cultural association and amenity value.

Upland landscapes are often very sensitive to change of a very local and subtle character as well as at the wider scale. Such change if extensive enough, or insensitive enough, can destroy the basic image of upland areas. Such threatening changes, and the reasons underlying them, should be identified to ensure that practical policies are pursued in relation to the landscape policy objectives of each area.

Further attention should be given to the merits of a landscape classification system as a tool in devising landscape policies.

The Countryside Commission should encourage extension of the trial of positive financial incentives to areas other than the Peak District, and should monitor the use of all available tools to assist in conservation of the uplands and disseminate information about their use.

There should be mandatory co‐operation between the agencies concerned, to develop agreed policies towards the uplands.

A system should be established for monitoring landscape change regularly and comprehensively.     

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).     

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

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).     

Downland landscape restoration in the Chilterns

Jay Appleton, THE EXPERIENCE OF LANDSCAPE, Second Edition, Hull University Press, 1987.

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO GARDENS Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe, Patrick Goode and Michael Lancaster (Eds), Oxford University Press, 1986, £29.50, 635 pp.

THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO THE LANDSCAPE OF ENGLAND AND WALES by Paul Coones and John Patten. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1986, 348 pp. £6.95 (P/B).

THE INDUSTRIALISATION OF THE COUNTRY SIDE, edited by Michael Healey and Brian Ilbery. Geobooks, 1985, £32.50, 315 pp.

FOUNDATIONS FOR VISUAL PROJECT ANALYSIS (Eds.) Richard C. Smardon, James E. Palmer and John P. Fellerman, published by Wiley Interscience, 1986, price £47.95.

LANDSCAPE MEANING AND VALUES, Edward C. Penning‐Rowsell and David Lowenthal (Eds.), Allen and Unwin, London, 1986.     

Reviews

DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN ETHIOPIA Editor: Abdul Mejid Hussein. African Environment Special Report No. 2, The International African Institute, London, 1976,121 pp. £1.50.

HEDGING (A Practical conservation handbook) Alan Brooks, The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, The Zoological Gardens, Regents Park, London, 1975. 117 pp. £2.10 inc. postage.

THREE JOURNALS Habitat: Published by : The Council for Nature, The Zoological Gardens, Regents Park, NW1 4RY. At £2.50, or £5.00 per annum.

Recreation News: Published by: The Countryside Commission , John Dower House, Crescent Place, Cheltenham, Glos., GL50 3RA.

The International Journal of Environmental Studies: Published by : Gordon Breach Science Publishers Ltd., 42 William IV Street. London, W.C.2. £17.50 for individuals, £35.00 for Libraries. Habitat

A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE J.J. Bagley, Phillimore & Co. Ltd., London & Chichester 1976. 128 pp. £4.95.     

Reviews

RECREATION AND RESOURCES: LEISURE PATTERNS AND LEISURE PLACES by J. Allan Patmore. 270 pages. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1983. £22.50 (hardback).

VISUAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT by Richard C. Smardon and John P. Felleman (eds) Theme Issue of Coastal Zone Management Journal (Vol 9, No 3/4, 164 pp). Crane, Russak and Company, New York, 1982. $26.00 (paperback).

ECOLOGICAL PLANNING AND FARMLANDS PRESERVATION by Frederick Steiner, 122 pages, American Planning Association, 1981.

COUNTRYSIDE SPORTS: THEIR ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE by Cobham Resource Consultants, 45 pp, Standing Conference on Countryside Sports, Reading 1983 (£3.00 summary report).

OXFORD GARDENS by Mavis Batey. Avebury, 1982. £5.95 (paperback)     

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.     

The master plan

GARTENDENKMALPFLEGE, edited by Dieter Hennebo, 1985, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 70, Postfach 70 05 61. 29 colour photographs and 126 black and white photos, drawings and prints. DM 198.00.

VICTORIAN GARDENS, Brent Elliott, London: Batsford, 1986, pp. 285, £30.00

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW, Chris C. Park (Ed.), Croom Helm, 1986, 315 pp, £22.50.

URBS ET REGIO 34/1984, Jungst, P. (Ed.), Kasseler Schrift‐enreihe zur Geographic und Planung Innere und äußere Landschaften Zur Symbolbelegung und emotionale Besetzung von räumlicher Umwelt.

LANNING ROPER AND HIS GARDENS by Jane Brown, Weidenfeld &; Nicholson, 1987. (42 colour plates, 120 illustrations in black and white and 25 plans). Price £20.00.

A TASTE FOR TRAVEL. AN ANTHOLOGY by John Julius Norwich. Macmillan, 1985, pp 435, paperback, £7.95.     

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).     

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.     

Race and the allocation of public housing: Changing perspectives,recurrent themes

Housing on Trial. By Elizabeth Burney. Oxford University Press (for Institute of Race Relations). 1967.

What Price Equality? Deborah Phillips, Greater London Council 1986.

Race, Class and the Allocation of State Housing. By Jeff Henderson and Valerie Kam. Aldershot: Gower. 1987.

Race and Housing: New Perspectives. edited by Susan Smith and John Mercer, University of Glasgow, Centre for Housing Research. 1987.     

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     

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 Note

Landscape Construction Volume 2: roads, paving and drainage

C.A. Fortlage &; E.T. Phillips

Aldershot, Gower, 206 pp., £49.50 hb., ISBN 0–566–09042–2