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.     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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     

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 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.