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

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.     

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

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

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

The Housing and Living Environment for Retired people in Australia. edited by Ross Thorne. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger. 1986. pp348 $A 29.95.

The Modern Urban Landscape. by Edward Relph. London: Croom Helm, 1987 pp279. £10.95.

Housing the Homeless. edited by Jon Erickson and Charles Wilhelm New Brunswick, New Jersey: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University. 1986. pp459. $19.95.

Cities: Special Issue: Shelter and Homelessness. Vol 4 No 1, February 1987. London: Butterworth. pp104.     

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.     

Book reviews

The State of Welfare. The Welfare State in Britain since 1974. John Hills (ed). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1990. ppxvi + 395.£40.00 hardback.

Housing and Health. Stella Lowry. London: British Medical Journal, 1991, pp109. £7.95 UK and EC. £9.50 abroad including airmail.

Safe as Houses: Housing Inheritance in Britain. Chris Hamnett, Michael Harmer and Peter Williams. London: Paul Chapman, 1991. ppl75. £14.95.

Landlord and Tenant: Housing the Poor in Urban Mexico. Alan Gilbert and Ann Varley, London and New York: Routledge, 1991, pp240.

Demands and Constraints: Ethnic Minorities and Social Services in Scotland. Alison Bowes and Duncan Sim(eds). Edinburgh: Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, 1991. pp 200. £9.95.     

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

Gentrification of the City. edited by Neil Smith and Peter Williams. Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1986. pp. 257. $30 cloth, $14 paper.

Property Companies and the Construction Industry in Britain. by Hedley Smyth. Cambridge University Press. 1985. pp. 262. £25.00.

Councillors and Tenants: Local Authority Housing in English Cities. 1919–1939. ed M.J. Daunton. Leicester University Press. 1984. pp. 216. £22.00

Housing, States and Localities. by Peter Dickens, Simon Duncan, Mark Goodwin and Fred Gray. London and New York: Methuen, 1985. pp. xiii, 280. £27.50.     

Book reviews

Selling the Welfare State: The Privatisation of Public Housing. Ray Forrest and Alan Murie. London: Routledge, 1988. 279pp. £35.00.

Affordable Housing and the Homeless. Jurgen Friedrichs (ed). Walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York.

The Homeless in Contemporary Society. Richard D. Bingham, Roy E. Green and Sammis B. White. £29.95 cloth, £12.95 paper.     

Housing policy: Comparing international comparisons

Land and Housing Policies In Europe and The USA. Graham Hallett (ed). London: Routledge, 1988. pp216. £27.50.

Housing and Social Change in Europe and The USA. Michael Ball, Michael Harloe and Maartje Martens. London: Routledge, 1988. pp222. £30.00.

Polarisation and Social Housing: The British and French Experience. Peter Willmott and Alan Murie. London: Policy Studies Institute, 1988. pp101. £5.95.     

Book reviews

Women, Housing and Community. W. Van Vliet, (ed). Avebury: Aldershot. 1988. pp204. £30.00, cloth.

Accommodating Inequality: Gender and Housing. S. Watson, Allen and Unwin: London. pp157. £9.95 paper, £25.00 cloth.

Social Housing and the Social Services. by Paul Spicker. Harlow: Longman and the Institute of Housing, 1989. 143pp. £11.95 (paper).     

Book reviews

Housing in Europe. edited by Martin Wynn. London: Croom Helm. 1983. pp. 325. £19.95.

National Housing Finance Systems: a Comparative Study. by Mark Boleat. 1985. London: Croom Helm, in association with the International Union of Building Societies and Savings Associations, pp. 489. £30.00.

Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe. by Michael Harloe. London: Croom Helm. 1985. pp. 366. £22.50.     

Low income home ownership and housing policy

Public Housing and Private Property 1970–1984. by Stephanie Cooper. Aldershot: Gower. 1985. pp. 178. £18.50.

Low Cost Home Ownership. edited by Philip Booth and Tony Crook. Aldershot: Gower. 1985. pp. 264. £18.50.

Home Ownership in the Inner City: Salvation or Despair? by Valerie Karn, Jim Kemeny and Peter Williams. Aldershot: Gower. 1985. pp. 162. £16.50.     

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

Homelessness and the London Housing Market. Glen Bramley, Kevin Doogan, Philip Leather, Alan Murie and Evelyn Watson. Bristol: School for Advanced Urban Studies. 1988. pp163. £6.95 paper.

Housing Policy and Central‐Local Government Relations. Barrie Houlihan. Basingstoke: Avebury. 1988. ppxi + 229. £29.50 Cloth.     

Book reviews

Women, Human Settlements and Housing. by Moser, C. and Peake, L. London: Tavistock, 1987. £25.00 cloth, £10.95 paper.

Science and the Home. by Doreen Yarwood London: Batsford, 1987. 184pp. £9.95 paper.     

Book reviews

The Shape of British Housing. by E R Scoffham. Longman. 1985. £19.50 hb.

The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815–60. by Henry C. Binford. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985. pp. xiv+304. £23.75.