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     

Book reviews

The People's Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe and America. Michael Harloe. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1995, £16.99 paperback. ISBN 0 631 18642 5.

Homeless Single Men: Roads to Resettlement? Jill Vincent, Alan Deacon & Robert Walker. Avebury, Aldershot, 1995, 197 pp, £32.50. ISBN 1 85972 0870.

Spatial Practices: Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory. Helen Liggett & David Perry (Eds). Sage, Thousand Oaks, 1995, 304 pp, £18.95 paperback. ISBN 8039 5114 0.

House Property and Inheritance in the UK. A. E. Holmans & M. Frosztega. Department of the Environment, HMSO, London, 1994, £25.00. ISBN 01175 29133.

Common Interest Communities — Private Governments and the Public Interest. S. Barton & C. Silverman (Eds). University of California, Institute of Local Governmental Studies Press, $23.95. ISBN 0 87772 3591.

Leaving Home. Gill Jones. London, Open University Press, 1995, 178 pp, £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 33519 284X.     

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

The Latin American City. Alan Gilbert. London, Latin American Bureau, 1994, 190 pp., £8.99, paperback. ISBN: 0906 156823.

The Homeless. Christopher Jencks. Harvard University Press, London, 1994, 161pp., £14.25 ISBN: 0674405951.

The Housing Authority as an Enabler. R. Goodlad. Longman/CIOH, 1993, 211pp., £14.95 ISBN: 0582 081 882.

The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City. Joel Schwartz. ISBN: 08142 05879.

Maintaining Home Ownership: the Agency Approach. P. Leather & S. Mackintosh. The Housing Practice series, Longman/Institute of Housing, 1992. ISBN: 0582 09592–1.     

Book reviews

A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property and the Emergence of New Market Economies. Gregory S. Alexander & Grazyna Skapska (Eds). London, Routledge, 1994, xxiii + 336 pp., ISBN 0415906970 (HB), 0415906989 (PB)

From Public Housing to the Social Market. Rental Policy Strategies in Comparative Perspective. Jim Kemeny. London and New York, Routledge, 1995, 194 pp., £40.00

European Housing Finance. Single Market or Mosaic?. Will Bartlett & Glen Bramley (Eds). Oxford, The Alden Press, School for Advanced Urban Studies (SAUS) publication 12 (Bristol) 1994, 282 pp., £19.95, paperback, ISBN 1 873575 63 7

Housing, Financial Markets and the Wider Economy. David Miles. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 228 pp., £35.00

Women in the Housing Service. Marion Brion. London, Routledge, 1994, ISBN 0 415 08094 £45.00 Hardback

Slippery Customers: Estate Agents, The Public and Regulation. Michael Clarke, David Smith & Michael McConville. London, Blackstone Press, 1994, 295 pp., £19.95     

Book reviews

Urban Policy Evaluation: Challenge and Change. R. Hambleton & H. Thomas (Eds). Liverpool, Paul Chapman, 1995, 258 pp., £17.95 ISBN 1–85396–271–6

Environmental Strategy and Sustainable Development. R. Welford. Routledge, London, 1995, 217 pp, £12.99, ISBN 0–415–10552–8

Urban Agriculture in Zimbabwe. B. Mbiba. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, VT, 1995, £35.00, ISBN 185628 857 9

Housing Women. Rose Gilroy & Roberta Woods (Eds.). London, Routledge, 1994, 304 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0–415–09463–1

Census User's Handbook. S. Openshaw (Ed.). Longmans, 1995, 454 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0–470234–814

Reconstituting Rurality. J. Murdoch & T. Marsden. London, UCL Press, 1994, 272 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1–85728–041–5

Development and Administration of Prague. M. Barlow, P. Dostal, & M. Hampl (Eds). Amsterdam, Instituut voor Sociale Geographie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1994, 170 pp., 35DG, ISBN 9–06993–086‐Z

Local Development, Restructuring, Locality and Local Initiative in Portugal. S. Syrett. Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 371 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1 85628 484 0     

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

Theories of Urban Politics. David Judge, Gerry Stoker & Harold Wolman (Eds). London, Sage, 1995, 310 pp. £11.99 pb. ISBN: 0 8039 8865 6

The Faces of Homelessness in London. Jeanne Moore, David Canter, Des Stockley & Madeline Drake. Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1995, 339 pp, £30.00. ISBN: 1 85521 252 8

Housing, ‘Race’, Social Policy and Empowerment. Malcolm Harrison. Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 176 pp., £32.50. ISBN: 1 85628 860 9

Empowerment and Estate Regeneration: A Critical Review. Murray Stewart & Marilyn Taylor. Bristol, Policy Press 1995, 90 pp., £11.95. ISBN: 1 86134 001 X

Old and Homeless—Double Jeopardy. Diane Wiatt Rich, Thomas Rich & L. C. Mullins (Eds). Connecticut, Auburn House, 1995, 142 pp., £39.95. ISBN 0 86569 246 7

Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns. Margaret Crawford. London and New York, Verso, 1995, 248 pp., £44.95. ISBN: 0 86091 4216     

Book reviews

Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government. E. McKenzie London: Yale University Press, 1994, 237 pp., £25 cloth ISBN 0–300–05876–4

The Suburban Racial Dilemma. W. Dennis Keating Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, $49.95 cloth, ISBN 1566 3914 74, $22.95 paper, ISBN 1566 3914 82

Urban Process and Power. P. Ambrose London, Routledge, 1994, 240 pp., £40.00 hardback, ISBN 0415 00850 6, £22.99 paper, ISBN 0415 00851 4

Housing Management, Community Care and Competitive Tendering — A Good Practice Guide. David Clapham & Bridget Franklin London, Institute of Housing, 1994, £10.95 ISBN 0901 607762

Customer Service in a Competitive Environment. J. Passmore & S. Fergusson London, Institute of Housing, 1994, £14.95 ISBN 0901 607746     

Book reviews

Competitive Cities: Succeeding in the Global Economy. H. Duffy. London, E. & F. N. Spon, 1995, 195 pp., £24.99 hb, ISBN 0–419–1984–7

Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation. S. Pile and N. Thrift (Eds). London: Routledge, 512 pp., £15.99, ISBN 0–415–10226‐X

Transport in Transition: Aspects of British and European Experience. J. McConville & J. Sheldrake (Eds), Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 203 pp., £35.00, hb, ISBN 1–89528–664–9

Territorial Competition in an Integrating Europe. P. Cheshire & I. Gordon (Eds). Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 317 pp., £40.00 hb, ISBN 1–85972–112–5

Industrial Location: Principles, Practice and Policy. J. W. Harrington & B. Warf. London, Routledge, 1995, 304 pp., £17.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–11951–0

Partnership Agencies in British Urban Policy. N. Bailey, with A. Berker & K. MacDonald. London, 1995, 256 pp., £12.95 pb, ISBN 1–85728–070–9

Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives. R. Forrest & A. Murie (Eds). London, Routledge, 1995, 272 pp., £45.00 hb, ISBN 0–415–07194–1     

Book reviews

Readings in Planning Theory. Scott Campbell & Susan Fainstein (Eds). Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, £16.99 pb, ISBN 1–55786–613–9

Re‐Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty‐First Century Metropolis. Anthony D. King (Ed.). Basingstoke and London, Macmillan, 1996, 282 pp., ISBN 0–333–60192–0

Controlling Development: Certainty and Discretion in Europe, the USA and Hong Kong. Philip Booth. London, UCL Press, 1996, 168 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1–85728–585–9

Conservation and the City. Peter J. Larkham. London, Routledge, 1996, 329 pp., £17.99, ISBN 0–415–07948–9 (pbk)

Geographic Information Systems and their Socioeconomic Applications 2nd edition. David Martin. London, Routledge, 1996, 210 pp., £14.95, ISBN 0–415–12572–3

Space is the Machine: A Configurational Theory of Architecture. Bill Hillier. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, xii + 463 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0–521–56039 (hbk)     

Book reviews

Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City. Jane M. Jacobs. London and New York, Routledge, 1996, 193 pp., £12.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–12007–1

Land for Industrial Development. David Adams, Lynne Russell & Clare Taylor‐Russell. London, E.&F.N. Spon, 1994, 289 pp., £37.50 hb, ISBN 0–419–19180–1

Urban Policy in Practice. Tim Blackman. London, Routledge, 1994, 320 pp., £14.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–09300–7

Planning, the Market and Private House‐building. G. Bramley, W. Bartlett & C. Lambert London, UCL Press, 1995, 192 pp., £11.95 pb, ISBN 1–85728–163–2

Retail Planning Policies in Western Europe. Ross Davies. London, Routledge, 1995, 304 pp., £45.00 hb, ISBN 0–415–10997–3

Transport Concepts in European Cities. Tim Pharoah & Dieter Apel. Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 291 pp., £42.50 hb, ISBN 1–859–72094–3

Building a New Heritage: Tourism, Culture and Identity in the New Europe. G.J. Ashworth & P.J. Larkham (Eds). London, Routledge, 1994, 278 pp., hb (out of print), ISBN 0–415–07931–4

Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function. Michael Batty & Paul Longley. London, Academic Press, 1994, 394 pp., £38.00 hb, ISBN 0–124–55570–5     

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

Urban Planning in Europe: International Competition, National Systems and Planning Projects. Peter Newman & Andy Thornley. London, Routledge 1996, 304pp., £13.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–11179‐X

Regional Development Strategies: A European Perspective. Jeremy Alden & Philip Boland (Eds.). London, RSA/Jessica Kingsley, 1996, 324 pp., £17.95 pb, ISBN 1–85302–356–6

Retailing, Consumption and Capital: Towards the New Retail Geography. Neil Wrigley & Michelle Lowe (Eds). Harlow, Longman, 1996, 352 pp., £17.99 pb, ISBN 0–582–22824–7

The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Development and Social Policy. Paul Kantor. Westview Press, 1995, 265 pp.

Urban Land and Property Markets in France. Acosta Rodrigo & Renard Vincent. London, UCL Press, 1993, 166 pp., £45.00 hb, ISBN 1–85728–050–4

Experts and Environmental Planning. Bob Evans. Avebury, Aldershot, 1995, 154pp., £32.50, ISBN 1–85628–673–8

The Industrial Enterprise and its Environmental Spatial Perspectives. S. Conti, E.J. Malecki & P. Oinas (Eds). Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, £35.00, ISBN 1–85628–876–5

Negotiating Development: Rationales and Practice for Development Obligations and Planning Gain. Patsy Healey, Michael Purdue & Frank Ennis. London, E & FN Span, 1995, xxi + 278 pages £29.95hb, ISBN 0–419–19410‐X     

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).     

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

Town Planning in Britain Since 1900: The Rise and Fall of the Planning Ideal. Gordon Cherry (deceased). Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, 260 pp., £13.99, ISBN 0–631–1994–2 (pbk).

Multinationals and European Integration—Trade, Investment and Regional Development. Nicholas A. Phelps. London: Jessica Kingsley, 1997, 181 pp., £18.95, ISBN 1–85302–3531 (pbk).

The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. Neil Smith. London: Routledge, 1996, 262 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0–415–13254–1 (hbk), £14.99, ISBN 0–415–13255‐X (pbk).

GIS and Organizations: How Effective are GIS in Practice? Heather Campbell & Ian Masser. London: Taylor and Francis, 1995, 224 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0–7484–0205–5.

Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies. Patsy Healey. London: Macmillan, 1997, 338 pp., ISBN 0–333–49573‐X (hbk), £12.99, ISBN 0–333–49574–8 (pbk).

Explorations in Planning Theory. S.J. Mandelbaum, L. Mazza & R. Burchell (Eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1996, 543 pp., $21.95, ISBN 0–88285–154–3.     

Book reviews

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. S. Graham & S. Marvin. London and New York, Routledge, 1996, 434 pp., £15.99 pbk. ISBN: 0 415 11903 0.

Housing Policy in Scotland. T. Begg. John Donald, Edinburgh, 1996, £16 pbk. ISBN: 0 85976 433 8.

Developments in Housing Management and Ownership. Ricardo Pinto (Ed.). Manchester University Press, 1995, 267 pp., £45.00 hbk. ISBN: 0 7190 3713 1.

A New Social Atlas of Britain. Daniel Dorling. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1995, 247pp., £35.00 hbk. ISBN: 0 4719 4868 3.     

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 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