‘Evidence-based Policy’: The Continuing Search for Effective Policy Processes

Multimedia and Planning: Introduction

Digital Ethnographies in the Planning Field

Video as a Tool in Community Engagement

Using Participatory Video to Enrich Planning Process

Film, Space and Place Identity: Reflections on Urban Planning

Multimedia and Planning:Commentary     

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Abstract

From the Review Editors: The Globalization of Planning

Books: Planning Theory: Shadows of Power: An Allegory of Prudence in Land-Use Planning, Jean Hillier, Routledge, New York, 2002. 345 pages. $31.95.

Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice and Possibility for American Cities, Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 267 pages. $24.95.

International Planning and Development, Emerging Johannesburg: Perspectives on the Postapartheid City, Richard Tomlinson, Robert A. Beauregard, Lindsay Bremner, and Xolela Mangcu editors. Routledge, New York, 2003. 305 pages. $90, $26.95 (paperback).

European Spatial Planning, Andreas Faludi editor. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2002. 240 pages. $25.

Squatters as Developers?: Slum Demolition and Redevelopment in Mumbai, India, Vinit Mukhija. Ashgate, Hampshire, UK, 2003. 190 pages. $79.95.

America s New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?, Larry R. Ford., Johns Hopkins, University Press, Baltimore, 2003. 340 pages. $45.

Redefining Urban &; Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Bruce Katz and Robert E. Lang editors. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 305 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

Urban History: City: Urbanism and its End, Douglas W. Rae. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003. 516 pages. $30.

Housing and Community Development: Community Action for School Reform, Howell S. Baum. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2003. 297 pp. $68.50, $22.95 (paperback).

Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment, John Goering and Judith D. Feins editors. Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 422 pages. $34.50.

Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing, Stuart Meck, Rebecca Retzlaff, and Jim Schwab, American Planning Association, PAS Report Nos. 513/514, Chicago, 2003. 274 pages. $60 (paperback).

Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action, Mara S. Sidney., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2003. 186 pages. $16.95 (paperback).

Environmental Planning and Management: Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities, Edward P. Weber. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2003-333 pages. $67, $26.95(paperback).

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, Robert T. Watson and A. H. Zakri, Co-chairs, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 245 pages. $25.

Public Health: Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity, Lawrence D. Frank, Peter O. Engelke, and Thomas L. Schmid. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 242 pages. $30 (paperback).

City of Las Vegas: The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas, Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis editors. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. 388 pages. $50, $19.95 (paperback).

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century, Hal K. Rothman, Routledge, New York, 2002. 352 pages. $18.95 (paperback).

Property Rights: The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good, Eric T. Freyfogle, Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 336 pages. $25.

Briefly Noted: Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark, Jim Bouton, Bulldog Publishing, North Egremont, MA, 2003. 366 pages. $24.95.

Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm, Edwardo Lao Rhodes., Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2003. 263 pages. $39.95.

Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A., Colin Flint editor. Routledge, New York, 2003. 266 pages. $23.95.

A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy, Richard K. Green and Stephen Malpezzi., The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 226 pages. $26.50 (paperback).

State Growth Management and Open Space Preservation Policies, Robert Wilson and Robert Paterson editors. LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Public Research Project Report #143, 2002. 189 pages. $22.

Urbanism: Imported or Exported? Native Aspirations and Foreign Plans, Joe Nasr and Mercedes Volait editors. John Wiley &; Sons, Chichester, UK, 2003. 354 pages. $40 (paperback).

Books &; Other Materials Received

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis, Robert E. Lang, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2003. 155 pages. $18.95 (paperback).     

Land Ownership and Planning

Your City Tomorrow. By Guy Greer. Macmillan Company. 1947. 210 pages. $2.50.

The Case for Regional Planning with Special Reference to New England. By the Directive Committee on Regional Planning, Yale University. Yale University Press. 1947. 94 pages with color illustrations. $10.00.

American Planning: Past-Present-Future. By Cleveland Rodgers. Harper and Bros. 1947. 290 pages. $3.00.

Public Control of Highway Access and Roadside Development. Reported by David R. Levin. United States Government Printing Office. 1947. 154 pages. 35 cents.

Metropolis in Maps. Bureau of Research Municipal Government, Graduate School of Public Administration, Harvard University.

Social Housing and its Advancement in Zurich, 1942-45 (Der Sociale Wohnbau und Seine Foerdenrng in Zurich) Published by Hochbauamt der Stadt Zurich, Switzerland. 113 pages with plans, photographs, tables. $5.00. Obtainable through the Architectural Publishing Book Company, New York City     

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Abstract

Gender and Planning: A Reader

Four Trends Illuminating Gender, Planning, and Cities

Honoring the Landmarks of Feminist Planning Thought while Embracing the Future

Planning and Gender as Seen from the Global South

Cities, Gender, and Diversity: New Ways to Address Marginality in Gender-Conscious Planning

Gender and Planning for Students: A Partial and Welcome Reader

Methods, Information Systems, and Mapping

Making Maps: A Visual Guide to Map Design for GIS

Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and Fractals

Land Use, Zoning, Growth Management, and Planning Law

Planning Policy and Politics: Smart Growth and the States

Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World

Community Development and Neighborhood Planning

Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods: Design for Environment and Community

Streets and Patterns

Partnerships for Smart Growth: University-Community Collaboration for Better Public Places

The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis

Promise and Betrayal: Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

The Politics of Public Space

The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space

Transportation

The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro

Alleviating Urban Traffic Congestion

Parking Management Best Practices

Politics and Society

Desegregating the City: Ghettos, Enclaves, and Inequality

International Planning and Development

The Global Cities Reader

Planning and Urban History

The City: A Global History     

Book Notes

Urban government for the paris region by Annmarie Hauck Walsh Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1968. 217 pp. $12.50.

Urban government in metropolitan lagos by Babatunde A. Williams and Annmarie Hauck Walsh Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1968. 182 pp. $12.50.

Urban government for Zagreb, Yugoslavia by Eugen Pusic and Annmarie Hauck Walsh Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1968. 190 pp. $10.00.

The Urban explosion in Latin America: A continent in process of modernization Edited by Glenn H. Beyer Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1967. 360 pp. $9.75.

Financing Latin American housing: Domestic savings mobilization and U.S. assistance policy by Sean M. Elliott Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1968. 232 pp. $12.50.

The city in Modern Africa Edited by Horace Miner Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1967. 364 pp. $7.50.

Planning for Development in Peru by Daniel R. Kilty Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1967. 196 pp. (processed) $12.50.

Resource-Conserving Urbanism for South Asia By Richard L. Meier Regional Development Studies VII, Department of Resource Planning & Conservation, School of Natural Resources, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1968. 95 pp. (Processed) n.p.

Law and contemporary problems, vol. xxxii, number 2, housing—part 1 : Perspectives and problems School of Law, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, Spring 1967. 182 pp. $3.00.     

Book Review

Black Economic Progress: The Rand Corporation Speaks

Closing the Gap: Forty Years of Economic Progress for Blacks: James P. Smith and Finis R. Welch. Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, 1986. 128 pp. $10.00 (paperback).

Planning in Government: Shaping Programs That Succeed: Melvin R. Levin. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1987. 257 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $27.95 (paperback).

Critical Rationalism and Planning Methodology: Andreas Faludi. Pion Ltd., London, 1986. 144 pp. about $17.00 (£8).

The Symbolic Construction of Community: Anthony P. Cohen. Ellis Horwood/Tavistock/Methuen, New York, 1985. 128 pp. $13.95 (cloth), $6.50 (paperback).

Symbolizing America: Herve Varenne, editor. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1986. 290 pp. $23.95 (cloth), $10.95 (paperback).

Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Illustration: Gerald M. Sider. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986. 205 pp. $34.50.

Rural Community in the Appalachian South: Patricia Duane Beaver. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1986. 182 pp. $18.00.

Planning with the Small Computer: An Applications Reader: Mathew E. MacIver and Jan Schreiber, editors. Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain in association with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Boston, 1986. 168 pp. $30.00

Cartography and Site Analysis with Microcomputers: A Programming Guide for Physical Planning, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture: N. Brito Mutunayagam and Ali Bahrami. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1987. 184 pp. $34.95.

Regional Dynamics: Studies in Adjustment Theory: Gordon L. Clark, Meric S. Gertler, and John Whiteman. Allen and Unwin, Boston, 1986. 342 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paperback).

Villages in the IJsselmeer Polders from Slootdorp to Zeewolde: C. Van der Wal. IJsselmeer Polders Development Authority, Lelystad, The Netherlands, 1986. 112 pp. $12.00 (paperback).

The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984: Ronald Lawson, editor. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1986. 289 pp. $35.00 (cloth), $15.00 (paperback).

The Geography of Urban Transportation: Susan Hanson, editor. Guilford Press, New York, 1986. 424 pp. $35.00.

Metropolitan School Desegregation: A Case Study of the St. Louis Area Voluntary Transfer Program: Michael K. Grady and Charles V. Willie. Wyndham Hall Press, Bristol, Indiana, 1986. 88 pp. $9.95 (paperback).

The Health Economy: Victor R. Fuchs. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986. 401 pp. $25.00.

Technology and Employment: Concepts and Clarifications: Eli Ginzberg, Thierry J. Noyelle, and Thomas M. Stanback, Jr. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1986. 111 pp. $27.50.     

The Mixed-Use Sidewalk

Problem, research strategy, and findings: Around the globe, streets and sidewalks in cities are being contested as spaces that should be used for more than transportation. This article challenges our understanding of both property rights and public space by applying a property rights framework to situate sidewalk use debates. It analyzes and maps the sidewalk property regimes of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, through a novel integration of surveying and ethnography. The case illuminates the feasibility of a mixed-use sidewalk that can be shared between various kinds of uses and users. A mixed-use sidewalk that is both cooperative and livable is possible if planners incorporate time into planning space in order to expand the sidewalk's flexibility and if local society can renarrate and enforce new legitimacies on the sidewalk.

Takeaway for practice: Sidewalk space deserves more attention as an important public space. In our era of historic urbanization, we should reconceive sidewalks as a mixed-use space rather than an exclusively pedestrian zone. Moreover, North American planners would benefit from engaging with public space experiments happening in cities in the developing world.

Research support: This research was supported by MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.     

Index to Volume 47

“With All Deliberate Speed”… Thirty Years Later

The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation: Raymond Wolters. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tenn., 1984. 346 pp. $24.95.

The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation: Jennifer L. Hochschild. Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn., 1984. 263 pp. $27.00 (cloth), $8.95 (paperback).

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families: I. Anthony Lukas. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985. 672 pp. $19.95.

Beyond Busing: Inside the Challenge to Urban Segregation: Paul R. Dimond. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1985. 424 pp. $29.95.

State Housing Policy and Urban School Segregation: Gary Orfield. Education Commission of the States, Denver, 1983. 31 pp. $3.00 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: The Progressive City: Planning and Participation 1969-1984: Pierre Clavel. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., 1986. 262 pp. $28.00 (cloth), $10.00 (paperback).

Modeling as Negotiating: The Political Dynamics of Computer Models in the Policy Process: William H. Dutton and Kenneth L. Kraemer. Ablex Publishing Corp., Norwood, N.J., 1985. 261 pp. $34.50.

Multiple Perspectives for Decision Making: Bridging the Gap Between Analysis and Action: Harold A. Linstone. Elsevier Science Publishing, New York, 1984. 422 pp. $31.50.

Building the Strategic Plan: Find, Analyze and Present the Right Information: Stephanie K. Marrus. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1984. 342 pp. $22.95.

Strategic Planning for Sponsored Project Administration: The Role of Information Management: Keith Harman and Charles R. McClure. Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1985. 279 pp. $45.00.

Competition for Land in the American South: Agriculture, Human Settlement, and the Environment: Robert G. Healy. The Conservation Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1985, 333 pp. $17.50.

Land: The Central Human Settlement Issue: H. Peter Oberlander. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1985. 103 pp. $7.95.

Land-Saving Action: Russell L. Brenneman and Sarah M. Bates, editors. Island Press, Covelho, Calif., 1984. 265 pp. $34.95 (paperback).

Inclusionary Zoning Moves Downtown: Dwight Merriam, David J. Brower, and Philip D. Tegeler, editors. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1985. 233 pp. $29.95 for APA members and PAS subscribers, $33.95 for others.

Managing Development in Small Towns: David J. Brower, Candace Carraway, Thomas Pollard, and C. Luther Propst. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1984. 176 pp. $17.95 for APA members and PAS subscribers, $19.95 for others.

Urban Transportation Networks: Equilibrium Analysis with Mathematical Programming Methods: Yosef Sheffi. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1985. 399 pp. $39.95.

Transportation and Mobility in an Era of Transition: Gijsbertus R. M. Jansen, Peter Nijkamp, and Cees J. Ruijgrok, editors. Elsevier Science Publishers 6. V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1985. 388 pp. $59.25.

Water, Earth, and Fire: Land Use and Environmental Planning in the New Jersey Pine Barrens: Jonathan Berger and John W. Sinton. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1985. 228 pp. $25.00.

High Technology, Space, and Society: Manuel Castells, editor. Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, vol. 28. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1985. 320 pp. $28.00 (cloth), $14.00 (paperback).

High Hopes for High Tech: Microelectronics Policy in North Carolina: Dale Whittington, editor. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1986. 341 pp. $36.00 (cloth), $9.95 (paperback).

The Mall: An Attempted Escape from Everyday Life: Jerry Jacobs. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights, Ill., 1984. 113 pp. $7.95 (paperback).

Shopping Malls: Planning and Design: Barry Maitland. Nichols Publishing Company, New York, 1985. 183 pp. $49.95.

The Malling of America: An Inside Look at the Great Consumer Paradise: William Severini Kowinski. William Morrow and Co., New York, 1985. 415 pp. $17.95.

Troubled Waters: Financing Water in the West: Rodney T. Smith. Council of State Planning Agencies, Washington, D.C., 1984. 201 pp. $17.95 (paperback).

Modeling Metropolitan Economies for Forecasting and Policy Analysis: Matthew P. Drennan. New York University Press, New York and London, 1985. 242 pp. $40.00.

Unreal City: Urban Experience in Modern European Literature and Art: Edward Timms and David Kelly, editors. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1985. 268 pp. $25.00.

Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940: Andrew Lees. Columbia University Press, New York, 1985. 360 pp. $30.00.

Urban Ethnicity in the United States: New Immigrants and Old Minorities: Lionel Maldonado and Joan Moore, editors. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1985. Vol. 29 of Urban Affairs Annual Reviews. 304 pp. $29.95 (cloth), $14.95 (paperback).

Minorities in the Sunbelt: Franklin J. James, Betty I. McCummings, and Eileen A. Tynen. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., 1984. 256 pp. $12.95 (paperback).

Advertising the Amercan Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940: Roland Marchand. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1985. 448 pp. $35.00.

Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890-1930: David E. Nye. The MIT Press, Cambridge, 1985. 188 pp. $20.00.

Briefly Noted: Metropolis: 1890-1940: Anthony Sutcliffe, editor. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 1984. 458 pp. $40.00.

People in Cities: The Urban Environment and Its Effects: Edward Krupat. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1985. 235 pp. $39.95 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

The Decline of Transit: Urban Transportation in German and U.S. Cities, 1900-1970: Glenn Yago. Cambridge University Press, New York, 1984. 293 pp. $29.95.     

Claiming Invited and Invented Spaces: Contingencies for Insurgent Planning Practices

Insurgent planning practice is an emerging idea for counter-hegemonic urban planning in the Global South, derived (generalized) from empirical work on specific southern contexts (Watson, V. 2013. “Planning and the ‘Stubborn Realities’ of Global South–East Cities: Some Emerging Ideas.” Planning Theory 12 (1): 81–100. doi:10.1177/1473095212446301). In this paper, we position ourselves with Meth (2010. “Unsettling Insurgency: Reflections on Women's Insurgent Practices in South Africa.” Planning Theory and Practice 11 (2): 241–263) who argues that insurgence and insurgent planning practices cannot be generalized across contexts but requires specific case by case empirical analysis to understand tactics and strategies within very different political and institutional situations. This paper is based on empirical evidence from two specific case-by-case analysis of potential insurgent action in Kathmandu, Nepal. We find that if insurgence is to present hope for counter-hegemonic outcomes in the context of Nepal, it is contingent upon a maturity of grass-roots organization, sharing of power among these, what constitutes ‘planning’ in insurgent planning and how success of such actions is measured. There is also a strong role of the nature of social mobilization and the institutional context of planning.     

Interface

Interface: Practice Challenging Theory in Community Planning

Participatory Planning and the Roots of Planning for Real: A Profile of Tony Gibson

Commentary on Tony Gibson's Profile

Commentary on Tony Gibson's Profile

It's Tony's World

Saul Alinsky Would Have Liked This Guy!

Tony Gibson Responds     

Interface

Mobilising Knowledge Resources in the Global South: Learning by Doing and Learning by Thinking

Between Planning Practice and the Academic World: Some Comments from a Brazilian Experience

Thinking about Johannesburg

Learning by Doing

Finding and Sharing Knowledge Resources in the Global South     

Tracking Our Footsteps

Abstract

Problem, research strategy, and findings: We conduct a systematic reading of all articles published in the past 30?years in three U.S.-based general planning journals, Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA), Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER), and Journal of Planning Literature (JPL), using latent Dirichlet allocation, a text mining technique. We find that certain research themes remain important in the past 3 decades, such as planning process, planning methods, and land use/growth management, whereas others have lost their prominent status, such as planning theory and planning education. New fields such as food systems have emerged during the study period. Editorial regimes appear to be associated with theme dynamics.

Takeaway for practice: In this study we demonstrate a text mining method to effectively summarize a large amount of text data and track planning researchers’ footsteps in the study of planning issues reflected from published research articles. We identify past and emerging research trends in the studied journals that can help scholars situate their work in the literature and practitioners find collaboration opportunities. It also helps professional associations such as the American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) and the APA open up new conference tracks and/or specialization groups/divisions so they can reflect the ever-changing interests of their memberships in a timely manner.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront

The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900, 1940

Reconstructing Times Square: Politics and Culture in Urban Development

Sidewalk Critic: Lewis Mumfor's Writings on New York

New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities

Lancaster, Ohio, 1800-2000: Frontier Town to Edge City

Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis

Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Eastern and Western Traditions

Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning

Rebuilding Urban Neighborhoods: Achievements, Opportunities, and Limits

Social Town Planning

A Neighborhood Divided: Community Resistance to an AIDS Care Facility

The New Urban Paradigm: Critical Perspectives on the City

Toward Sustainable Communities: Resources for Citizens and their Governments

Cities on the Rebound: A Vision for Urban America

Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities

Constructing Suburbs: Competing Voices in a Debate Over Urban Growth

Transforming California: A Practical History of Land Use and Development

Better Environmental Decisions: Strategies for Governments, Businesses, and Communities

Etopia: Urban Life, Jim But Not as We Know It

Digital Places: Living with Geographic Information Technologies

Ecology and Landscape Development: A History of the Mersey Basin     

Market Planning,Market Planners,and Planned Markets

Abstract

From the Review Editor

Planning Theory Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 1 Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson, editors. Routledge, New York, 2004. 384 pages. $130.

Methods, Information Systems, and Mapping Beyond Benefit Cost Analysis: Accounting for Non-Market Values in Planning Evaluation Donald Miller and Domenico Patassini, editors. Ashgate, Hampshire, England, 2005. 338 pages. $99.95.

Planning and Urban Design Standards American Planning Association. John &; Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. 736 pages. $200.

Land Use, Zoning, Growth Management, Planning Law Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe Robert J. Johnston and Stephen K. Swallow, editors. Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 2006. 288 pages. $70, $36.95 (paperback).

Community Development and Neighborhood Planning Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, editors. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2006. 416 pages. $34.95 (paperback).

New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures Emily Talen. Routledge, New York, 2005. 328 pages. $147, $44 (paperback).

Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips. American Planning Association, Chicago, 2006. 354 pages. $55.95 (paperback).

Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr., Krishna M. Akundi, and Alan F. J. Artibise, editors. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2005. 360 pages. $94.95, $39.95 (paperback).

Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City Bill Sanders. Routledge, New York, 2004. 256 pages. $122.50.

Transportation Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads Gabriel Roth, editor. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2006. 581 pages. $59.95, $29.95 (paperback).

Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources City and Environment Christopher G. Boone and Ali Modarres. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2006. 240 pages. $76.50, $25.95 (paperback).

International Planning and Development German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy: Restructuring Eastern Germany Sebastian Lentz, editor. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007. 190 pages. $89.95.

Return to the Center: Culture, Public Space, and City-Building in a Global Era Lawrence A. Herzog. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2006. 299 pages. $55, $24.95 (paperback).

Planning and Urban History The New Suburban History Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. 300 pages. $60, $24 (paperback).     

Book Reviews and Notes

City Development: Studies in Disintegration and Renewal, by Lewis Mumford. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1945. 248 pages, $2.00

A Million Homes a Year, by Dorothy Rosenman. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1945. 333 pages. $3.50.

State and Local Finance in the National Economy, by Alvin H. Hansen and Hrvey S. Perloff. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1944. 310 pages. $3.75.

Planning Neighborhood Shopping Centers; a Study of Neighborhood Retail Trades Requirements and the Use of Purchasing Power as a Yardstick in Planning to Meet Them, by Marcel Villanueva. New York: National Committee on Housing, Inc. c1945. 34 pages. $1.00.

Planning by Lease Control, by Henry W. Wells in the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Vol. 51, No. 12. London, October, 1944.

A Factual Basis for Reconstruction, by F. A. C. Maunder, in the Journal of the Town Planning Institute, Vol. XXXI, No. 2. London, January-February, 1945.

Better Training for the Planner, by G. Cozen, in the Journal of the Town Planning Institute, Vol. XXXI, No. 2. London, January-February, 1945.     

All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight Over Highway Funding

Urban Development Cityscapes and Capital Michael A. Pagano and Ann O'M. Bowman. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1995. 188 pp. $32.50.

Urban Revitalization: Policies and Programs Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, and Anthony J. Mumphrey Jr., editors. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995. 234 pp. $42.00, $19.95 (paperback).

Neighborhood and Community Rebuilding the Inner City: A History of Neighborhood Initiatives to Address Poverty in the United States Robert Halpern. Columbia University Press, New York, 1995. 257 pp. $49.50, $17.00 (paperback).

Organizing the South Bronx Jim Rooney. SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 1994. 283 pp. $18.95 (paperback).

Planning Theory Experts and Environmental Planning Bob Evans. Avebury, Brookfield, VT, 1995.154 pp. $55.95.

Communicative Planning Theory Tore Sager. Avebury, Brookfield, VT, 1994.288 pp. $59.95.

Paired Review Planning Ethics: A Reader in Planning Theory, Practice, and Education Sue Hendler, editor. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, NJ, 1995. 374 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

Planning Ethics: A Reader in Planning Theory, Practice, and Education Sue Hendler, editor. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, NJ, 1995. 374 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

Land Use Model Subdivision Regulations: Planning and Law (Second Edition) Robert H. Freilich and Michael M. Schultz. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 1995.375 pp. $59.95.

At Road's End: Transportation and Land Use Choices for Communities Daniel Carlson, with Lisa Wormser and Cy Ulberg. Island, Washington, DC, 1995. 168 pp. $37.50 (paperback).

Housing The Architecture of Affordable Housing Sam Davis. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995. 208 pp. $30.00.

Downtown Living: The History of Residential Hotels in the United States Paul Groth. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1994. 401 pp. $35.00.

Planning for the Private Interest: Land Use Controls and Residential Patterns in Columbus, Ohio, 1900-1970 Patricia Burgess. Ohio State University Press, Columbus, OH, 1994. 258 pp. $59.95.

Environment Environmental Diplomacy: Negotiating More Effective Global Agreements Lawrence E. Susskind. Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. 201 pp. $45.00, $14.95 (paperback).

Collaborative Planning for Wetlands and Wildlife: Issues and Examples Douglas R. Porter and David A. Salvesen, editors. Island, Washington, DC, 1995.293 pp. $29.50 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields Building the Public City: The Politics, Governance, and Finance of Public Infrastructure David C. Perry, editor. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995. 250 pp. $54.00,$24.00 (paperback).

Guidelines for Preparing Urban Plans Larz T, Anderson. APA Planners Press, Chicago, IL, 1995. 231 pp. $49.95; $45.95, APA members.

Regional Development Theories And Their Application Benjamin Higgins and Donald J. Savoie. Transaction, New Brunswick, NJ, 1995. 422 pp. $44.95.

Briefly Noted City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village David Sucher. City Comforts Press, Seattle, WA, 1995. 176 pp. $18.00 (paperback).     

Housing and Economic Development in Indian Country: Challenge and Opportunity

Global Warming: Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment J. T. Houghton, G. J. Jenkins, and J. J. Ephraums, editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1990. 305 pp. $34.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Leaving Eden to Protect and Manage the Earth E. G. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1991. 358 pp. $14.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Global Environmental Issues: A Climatological Approach David D. Kemp. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, London, 1990. 220 pp. $15.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Global Climate Change and Life on Earth Richard L. Wyman, editor. Rout-ledge, Chapman and Hall, London, 1991. 282 pp. $24.95 (paperback).

Global Warming: Global Climate Change and California Joseph B. Knox and Ann Foley Scheuring, editors. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992. 184 pp. $12.95 (paperback).

The Environment: Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards: A Time for Discourse Bunyan Bryant and Paul Mohai, editors. Westview Press, San Francisco, 1992. 251 pp. $32.00 (paperback).

The Environment: Sustaining the Earth John Young. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990. 202 pp. $10.95 (paperback).

The Environment: Rural Environmental Planning for Sustainable Communities Frederick O. Sargent, Paul Lusk, Jose A. Rivera, and Maria Varela. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1991. 254 pp. $24.95 (paperback).

The Environment: Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards Michael S. Greve and Fred L. Smith, Jr., editors. Praeger, New York, 1992. 212 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Customer Service in Local Government: Challenges for Planners and Managers Bruce W. McClendon. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1992. 194 pp. $45.95, $34.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States and the Federal Government Alice M. Rivlin. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1992. 196 pp. $15.95.

Planning and Its Subfields: Left Coast City: Progressive Politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 Richard Edward DeLeon. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1992. 239 pp. $35.00, $14.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: The New Frontier for Land Policy: Planning and Growth Management in the States John M. DeGrove, with Deborah Miness. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 1992. 176 pp. $18.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 John M. Findlay. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992. 394 pp. $35.00.

Planning and Its Subfields: The Power of Maps Denis Wood. Guilford Press, New York, 1992. 248 pp. $35.00, $15.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: Put up or Give Way: States, Economic Competitiveness, and Poverty John Sidor. Council of State Community Development Agencies, Washington, DC, 1991.243 pp. $20.00 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields: North American Free Trade: Assessing the Impact Nora Lustig, Barry P. Bosworth, and Robert Z. Lawrence, editors. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1992. 274 pp. $28.95, $10.95 (paperback).

Briefly Noted: Electronic Byways: State Policies for Rural Development Through Telecommunications Edwin B. Parker and Heather Hudson, with Don A. Dillman, Sharon Strover, and Frederick Williams. Westview, Boulder, CO, 1992. 306 pp. $57.50, $18.85 (paperback).

Briefly Noted: Credit Where It's Due: Development Banking for Communities Julia Ann Parzen and Michael Hall Kieschnick. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1992. 275 pp. $29.95.

Briefly Noted: Reclaiming the Past Landmarks of Women's History Page Putnam Miller, editor. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1992. 232 pp. $35.00.

Briefly Noted: Renewing Cities Ross J. Gittell. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992. 232 pp., $39.50.

Briefly Noted: Regions Reconsidered: Economic Networks, Innovation, and Local Development in Industrialized Countries Edward Bergman, Gunther Maier, and Franz Todtling, editors. Mansell, London, 1991. 312 pp. $80.00.

Briefly Noted: Defense, Welfare and Growth: Perspective and Evidence Steve Chan and Alex Mintz, editors. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1992. 248 pp. $59.95.

Briefly Noted: The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973 Janet R. Daly-Bednarek. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1992. 292 pp. $37.50.     

Book reviews

Urban Planning in a Multicultural Society

Michael A. Burayidi (ed.) Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2000 ISBN 0275961257 (hardback) 280 pp.; index RRP $123.85

The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages

Nick Wates (ed.) Earthscan, London, 2000 ISBN 1853836540 (paperback) 230 pp. RRP $42.85

City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American Metropolis

Joseph A. Rodriguez Praeger, Westport, Conn., 1999 ISBN 027596406X (hardback) 144 pp.; bibliographic essay RRP $96.97

Community Development in the Market Economy

Jeremy McArdle Vista, Melbourne, 1999 ISBN 0958649677 (paperback) 117 pp.; bibliography RRP $16.50

Ethnicity and Housing: Accommodating Difference

Frederick W. Boal (ed.) Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000 ISBN 1859725961 (hardcover) 318 pp.; bibliography and index RRP $101.08

Computer‐Aided Policymaking: Lessons from Strategic Planning Software

Ray Wyatt, E. & F. N. Spon, London, 1999 ISBN 0419244808 (paperback) 244 pp.; bibliography and index RRP $79.95

Making Common Ground: Public‐Private Partnership in Land for Housing.

Geoffrey Payne (ed.). Intermediate Technology Publications, London, 1999. ISBN 1853394793 (paperback). 256 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $45.86     

A Review of “Art and the city; Civic imagination and cultural authority in Los Angeles”

Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Volume 1 Gene V. Glass, ed. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1976. 672 pp. $29.95.

Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Volume 2 Marcia Guttentag with Shalom Saar, eds. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1977. 736 pp. $29.95.

The Evaluation of Social Programs Clark C. Abt, ed. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, Calif., 1976. 503 pp. $25.

A Decade of Federal Antipoverty Programs Robert H. Haveman, ed. Academic Press, New York, 1977. 381 pp. $17.

Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward. Pantheon Books, New York, 1977. 381 pp. $12.95.

Social Science and Public Policy Martin Rein. Penguin Books, New York, 1976. 272 pp. $2.95 (paperback).

Social Policy: An Australian Introduction Adam Graycar. MacMillan, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, 1977. 70 pp. $3.50 (paperback).

Social Services in the United States: Policies and Programs Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1976. 554 pp. $15. (cloth), $7.95 (paperback).

The Structure of Urban Reform Roland L. Warren, Stephen M. Rose, and Ann F. Bergunder. Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Mass., 1974. 214 pp. $14.50.

Planning for Social Welfare: Issues, Models, and Tasks Neil Gilbert and Harry Specht, eds. Prentice-Hall, Engle-wood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1977. 390 pp. $13.50.

The Implementation Game: What Happens after a Bill Becomes a Law Eugene Bardach. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1977. 323 pp. $17.95.

The Politics of Social Service Jeffry H. Galper. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1975. xi + 237 pp. $6.95.

Health Care Politics: Ideological and Interest Group Barriers to Reform Robert R. Alford. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1975. xiv + 294 pp. $4.95.

Need Assessment in Health and Human Services Roger A. Bell, Martin Sundel, Joseph F. Aponte, and Stanley Murrell, eds. University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky., 1976. 360 pp. $8.95 (paperback).

Human Services and Resource Networks Seymour B. Sarason, Charles Carroll, Kenneth Maton, Saul Cohen, and Elizabeth Lorentz. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1977. 201 pp. $12.95.

Awakenings Oliver Sacks. Vintage Books, New York, 1976. 344 pp.

Social Services Planning Series The Research Group, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia.

State Experiences in Social Services Planning: Eight Case Studies on Social Services Planning in Response to Title XX of the Social Security Act Gerald T. Horton, ed. 1976. 520 pp. $10. (paperback).

Alternative Approaches to the Organization and Staffing for Social Services Planning: State Experiences and Suggested Approaches Gerald T. Horton, ed. 1976. 66 pp. $2.50 (paperback).

Techniques for Needs Assessment in Social Service Planning: State Experiences and Suggested Approaches Edmund H. Armentrout, ed. 1976. 122 pp. $5. (paperback).

Techniques for Resource Identification and Service Inventory in Social Services Planning: State Experiences and Suggested Approaches Gerald T. Horton, ed. 1976. 82 pp. $3. (paperback).

Techniques for Goal and Objective Setting in Social Services Planning: State Experiences and Suggested Approaches Edmund H. Armentrout, ed. 1976. 75 pp. $3. (paperback).

Techniques for Resource Allocation in Social Services Planning: State Experiences and Suggested Approaches Edmund H. Armentrout, ed. 1976. 71 pp. $2.50 (paperback).

Alternative Approaches to Program Planning Coordination in Social Services Planning: State Experiences and Suggested Approaches Gerald T. Horton, ed. 1976. 44 pp. $2. (paperback).

Preparation and Format for State Social Service Program Plans in Social Services Planning Gerald T. Horton, ed. 1976. 93 pp. $3. (paperback).

Techniques for Public Information, Participation, Review and Comment in Social Services Planning: State Experiences and Suggested Approaches Victoria M. E. Carr, ed. 1976. 63 pp. $2.50 (paperback).

Alternative Approaches to Program Development in Social Services Planning The Research Group, Inc. 1976. 69 pp. $5.

Social Limits to Growth Fred Hirsch. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1976. 208 pp. $10.

The Limits to Satisfaction—An Essay on the Problems of Needs and Commodities William Leiss. University of Toronto Press, Toronto and Buffalo, 1976. 159 pp. $4.50 (paperback).

The Poverty of Power—Energy and the Economic Crisis Barry Commoner. Knopf, New York, 1976. 314 pp. $10.

The New Urban Politics Louis H. Masotti and Robert L Lineberry, eds. Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1976. 264 pp. $15. (cloth), $7.95 (paperback).

No Little Plans: Fairfax County's PLUS Program for Managing Growth Grace Dawson. The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C., 1977. 168 pp. $3.95 (paperback).

Land Use Controls in the United States Natural Resources Defense Council. Dial Press, New York, 1977. 362 pp. $15.95 (cloth), $7.95 (paperback).

Federal Land Use Regulation Fred P. Bosselman, Duane Feurer, Tobin M. Richter. Available from the Practising Law Institute, New York. 384 pp. $35.

Urban Modelling: Algorithms, Calibrations, Prediction Michael Batty. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Great Britain, 1976. 381 + xxv pp. $46.

The Fiscal Impact Handbook: Projecting the Local Costs and Revenues Related to Growth Robert W. Burchell and David Listokin. Rutgers University, Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, N.J. 1978. 542 pp. $20.

Planning the Fourth Migration: The Neglected Vision of the Regional Planning Association of America Carl Sussman, ed. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1976. 277 pp. $14.95.

Comparative Metropolitan Analysis Project John S. Adams and Ronald Abler; Ki-Suk Lee, Chief Cartographer; Ronald Abler, ed. (For the Association of American Geographers). Three volumes.

Volume 1, Contemporary Metropolitan America: Twenty Geographical Vignettes Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1976. In four volumes, $100 the set.

Volume 2, Urban Policymaking and Metropolitan Dynamics: A Comparative Geographical Analysis Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1976. 577 pp. $25.

Volume 3, A Comparative Atlas of America's Great Cities: Twenty Metropolitan Regions University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1976. 527 pp. $95.