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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.     

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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.     

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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).     

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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.     

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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     

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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.     

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Rural Planning and Development in the United States by Mark B. Lapping, Thomas L. Daniels & John W. Keller, New York & London, Guilford Press, 1989, ISBN 0-89862-384-7, 342pp., £32.00 HB.

Conflict and Change in the Countryside by Guy M. Robinson, London, Belhaven Press, 1990, ISBN 1-85293-044-6, 482pp., £40.00 HB, £14.95 PB.

Monitoring Environmental Change with Color Slides by Arthur W. Magill, 1989, Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-117, Berkeley CA, 55pp. From Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, PO Box. 245, Berkeley, California94071,

Time Exposure: the Peak National Park — Past and Present, by Ray Manley, 1991, Peak Park Joint Planning Board, ISBN 0-907543-48-0, 88pp. Reviewed by Peter Howard, Department of Design, University of Plymouth

ISBN 0-89381-447-4, 80pp, $14.50.

Beyond Wilderness, Aperture, No.120, Late Summer 1990,

From Aperture, 20 East 23 Street, New York, NY 10010-4463.

Britain's Changing Environment from the Air edited by Tim Bayliss Smith & Susan Owens, Cambridge U P, 1990, ISBN 0-521-37121, 256pp.

Use of vegetation in civil engineeringedited by N.J. Coppin & I.G. Richards, London, Butterworths, 1990, ISBN 0408-03849-7, 292pp. £50. (£40 for members through CIRIA)

Nature Areas for City People by Jacklyn Johnston for the London Ecology Unit, Ecology Handbook 14, 1990, ISBN 187104510X, 116pp., £6.00.     

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Designing Parks: an examination of contemporary approaches in landscape architecture

by Lodewijk Balyon, Amsterdam: Architectura and Natura Press, 1992, 332pp., 137 ill'ns,

Power in Trust: The Environmental History of the Central Electricity Generating Board,

by John Sheail, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991, 312 pp., ISBN 0-19-854673-4 HB.

Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the environmental tradition

by Jonathan Bate, London & New York: Routledge, 1991, 131pp., £8.99 pb, ISBN 0 415 06116 4

Seeing Straight: the f. 64 revolution in photography

edited by Therese Thau Heyman, Seattle: University of Washington Press (for Oakland Museum), 1992, ISBN 0-295-97219-X, $29.95, 168 pp.     

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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.)