Book reviews

Australian Environmental Policy 2: Studies in Decline and Devolution

Ken Walker and Kate Crowley (eds) UNSW Press, Sydney, 1999 ISBN 0868406732 (paperback) 323 pp.; bibliography and index RRP $35.00

Beyond Meltdown: The Global Battle for Sustained Growth.

Peter Brain. Scribe, Melbourne, 1999 ISBN 0908011369 (paperback) 273 pp.; bibliography and index RRP $26.95

Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown

Roberta Brandes Gratz with Norman Mintz John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998 ISBN 0471144177 (hardback) 347 pp.; index RRP $59.95

Evaluation in Planning: Facing the Challenge of Complexity

Nathaniel Lichfield, Angela Barbanente, Dino Bori, Abdul Khakee and Anna. Prat (eds). Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1998. ISBN 0792351770 (hardback). 383 pp.; index. RRP $254.00

Gritty Cities: Images of the Urban

Lyaranette Finch and Chris McConville (eds). Pluto, Sydney, 1999. ISBN 1864030631 (paperback). 250 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $24.95

Setting the Stage for Systainability: A Citizen's Handbook

Chris Maser, Russ Beaton and Kevin Smith Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, 1998 ISBN 1574441876 (hardback) 269 pp.; index RRP $47.50

The Australian Metropolis: A Planning History

Stephen Hamnett and Robert Freestone (eds) Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999 ISBN 1865080535 (paperback) 229 pp.; index RRP $35.00     

Book reviews

Cities in Civilisation

Peter Hall. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998. ISBN 0297842196 (hardback). 1,169 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $75.00

A Study of Town Life:. Living Standards in the City of York 100 Years After Rowntree

Meg Huby, Jonathan Bradshaw and Anne Corden York Publishing Services, York, 1999. ISBN 1902633229 (paperback). 54 pp.; bibliography. RRP $36.50

Future Makers, Future Takers: Life in Australia, 2050

Kenneth Douglas Cocks. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. ISBN 086840473X (paperback). 331 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $39.95

Constructing Suburbs: Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth

Ann Forsyth. Gordon & Breach, Amsterdam, 1999. ISBN 9057005271 (paperback). 195 pp.: bibliography and index. RRP $36.00     

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     

Book reviews

TOWARDS COSMOPOLIS: Planning for Multicultural Cities. Leonie Sandercock. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 1998. ISBN 0471971987 (paperback). 258 pp.; bibliography. RRP $41.15.

THE MYTH OF THE POWERLESS STATE: Governing the Economy in a Global Era. Linda Weiss. Polity/Blackwell, Cambridge, 1998. ISBN 0745615821 (paperback). 260 pp.; index and bibliography. RRP $37.95.

SOCIAL CHANGE, SUBURBAN LIVES: An Australian Newtown 1960s to 1990s. Lois Bryson and Ian Winter. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1998. ISBN 1864486996 (paperback). 238 pp.; index and bibliography. RRP $29.95.

CONTESTING THE AUSTRALIAN WAY: States, Markets and Civil Society. Paul Smyth and Bettina Cass (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998. ISBN 0521633060 (hardback). 280 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $90.00.

THE ECOLOGICAL CITY AND THE CITY EFFECT: Essays on the Urban Planning Requirements for the Sustainable City. Franco Archibugi. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 1997. ISBN 1859726534 (hardback). 243 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $96.50.

CITIES FOR TOMORROW: Integrating Land Use, Transport and the Environment. Hans L. Westerman. Austroads, Sydney, 1998. ISBN 0855885033 (paperback). Resource Document 202 pp.; Better Practice Guide. 394 pp.; index. RRP $180.00.

EAST WEST PERSPECTIVES ON 21ST CENTURY URBAN DEVELOPMENT: Sustainable Eastern and Western Cities in the New Millennium. John Brotchie, Peter Newton, Peter Hall and John Dickey (eds). Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 1999. ISBN 1840143177 (hardback). 432 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $122.00.

MADE IN LANCASHIRE: A History of Regional Industrialisation. Geoffrey Timmins. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1998. ISBN 0719045398. 334 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $145.00.     

Book reviews

Home Truths: Property Ownership and Housing Wealth in Australia. Blair Badcock and Andrew Beer. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0522848931 (paperback). 212 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $38.45.

Cities for Children: Children's Rights, Poverty and Urban Management. Sheridan Bartlett, Roger Hart, David Sattherwaite, Ximena de la Barra and Alfredo Missair. Earthscan, London, 1999. ISBN 185383470X. 305 pp. RRP $39.95

The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes. John Forester. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. ISBN 0262062070. 305 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $54.95

Spaces of Hope: David Harvey. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2000. ISBN 0748612688. 293 pp.. RRP $44.00

The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators. Charles Landry. Comedia and Earthscan, Stroud and London, 2000. ISBN 1853836133 (paperback). 300 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $48.50

Urban Regeneration: A Handbook. Peter Roberts and Hugh Sykes (eds). Sage, London, 2000. ISBN 0761967176 (paperback). 320 pp.; bibliography and index. $65.00

Sydney: The Emergence of a World City. John Connell (ed.). Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0195507487 (paperback). 381pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $35.00

Cultural Geography: Themes, Concepts, Analyses. William Norton. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. ISBN 0195413075 (paperback). 379 pp.; bibliography, glossary and index. RRP $50.95     

Book reviews

Cities for Citizens: Planning and the Rise of Civil Society in a Global Age

Mike Douglass and John Friedmann (eds) John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1998 ISBN 047197708 (paperback) 302 pp.; bibliography and index RRP $54.95

International Planning: Theory versus Practice

David Turnbull. City of Whittlesea, Melbourne, 1999. No ISBN; paperback. 128 pp.. RRP $50.00

Redesigning the Welfare State in New Zealand: Policies, Problems, Prospects

Jonathan Boston, Paul Dalziel and Susan St John (eds) Oxford University Press, Auckland, 1999 ISBN 0195583736 (paperback) 356pp.; bibliography and index RRP $45.00

Smart Regulation: Designing Environmental Policy

Neil Gunningham and Peter Grabosky with Darren Sinclair Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998 ISBN 0198268572 (hardback) 494pp.; bibliography and index RRP $130.00

States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States

Julia O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff and Sheila Shaver Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999 ISBN 0521630924 (hardback) 281 pp.; bibliography and index RRP $90.00

Territoriality in the Globalizing Society: One Place or None?

Stefan Immerfall (ed.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998 ISBN 3540643222 (hardback) 214pp.; bibliography and index RRP $116.25     

Book reviews

Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas. Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2000. ISBN 1865082384 (paperback). 273 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $35.00.

Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas. Review 2.

Equity, Environment, Efficiency: Ethics and Economics in Urban Australia. Patrick Troy (ed.). Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0522848923 (paperback). 255pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $43.95.

Asian New Urbanism. William S. W. Lim. Select Books, Singapore, 1998. ISBN 9814022012. 250 pp.. RRP $52.00.

Rethinking Australian Citizenship. Wayne Hudson and John Kane (eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN 052159670 (paperback), 052159337 9 (hardback). 274pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $34.95 (paperback), $90.00 (hardback).

Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning. Henry Sanoff. John Wiley, New York, 2000. ISBN 0471355453. 306 pp.; bibliography, additional readings and index. RRP $114.95.

Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism. Sharon Beder. Scribe, Melbourne, rev. edn, 2000. ISBN 090801144 (paperback). 336 pp; bibliography and index. RRP $29.95.     

Book reviews

Cities in Civilisation

Peter Hall. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998. ISBN 0297842196 (hardback). 1,169 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $75.00

A Study of Town Life:. Living Standards in the City of York 100 Years After Rowntree

Meg Huby, Jonathan Bradshaw and Anne Corden York Publishing Services, York, 1999. ISBN 1902633229 (paperback). 54 pp.; bibliography. RRP $36.50

Future Makers, Future Takers: Life in Australia, 2050

Kenneth Douglas Cocks. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1999. ISBN 086840473X (paperback). 331 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $39.95

Constructing Suburbs: Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth

Ann Forsyth. Gordon & Breach, Amsterdam, 1999. ISBN 9057005271 (paperback). 195 pp.: bibliography and index. RRP $36.00     

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     

Book reviews

Home Truths: Property Ownership and Housing Wealth in Australia. Blair Badcock and Andrew Beer. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0522848931 (paperback). 212 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $38.45.

Cities for Children: Children's Rights, Poverty and Urban Management. Sheridan Bartlett, Roger Hart, David Sattherwaite, Ximena de la Barra and Alfredo Missair. Earthscan, London, 1999. ISBN 185383470X. 305 pp. RRP $39.95

The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes. John Forester. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1999. ISBN 0262062070. 305 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $54.95

Spaces of Hope: David Harvey. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2000. ISBN 0748612688. 293 pp.. RRP $44.00

The Creative City: A Toolkit for Urban Innovators. Charles Landry. Comedia and Earthscan, Stroud and London, 2000. ISBN 1853836133 (paperback). 300 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $48.50

Urban Regeneration: A Handbook. Peter Roberts and Hugh Sykes (eds). Sage, London, 2000. ISBN 0761967176 (paperback). 320 pp.; bibliography and index. $65.00

Sydney: The Emergence of a World City. John Connell (ed.). Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0195507487 (paperback). 381pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $35.00

Cultural Geography: Themes, Concepts, Analyses. William Norton. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000. ISBN 0195413075 (paperback). 379 pp.; bibliography, glossary and index. RRP $50.95     

Book reviews

Suburban Backlash: The Battle for the World's Most Liveable City. Miles Lewis. Blooming, Melbourne, 1999. ISBN 1876473169. 298 pp. RRP $38.45.

A Very Public Solution: Transport in the Dispersed City. Paul Mees. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0522848672. 306 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $29.95.

Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form. Kim Dovey. Routledge, London, 1999. ISBN 041517368X (paperback). 218 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $39.95.

Environmental Democracy. Michael Mason. Earthscan, London, 1999. ISBN 1853836176 (paperback). 266 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP $39.95.

Cities and the Environment: New Approaches for Eco-Societies. Takashi Inoguchi, Edward Newman and Glen Paoletto (eds). United Nations University Press, Tokyo, 1999. ISBN 9280810235. 368 pp.. RRP $54.95.

Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How It Can Succeed Again. Bent Flyvbjerg. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001. ISBN 052177268X. 204 pp. RRP $37.95.

Unemployment and Government: Genealogies of the Social. William Walters. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN 0521643333 (hardback). 195 pp.. RRP $103.95.     

Book reviews

Shelter Is Not Enough: Transforming Multi-Storey Housing. Graham Towers. Policy, Bristol, 2000. ISBN 1861341563. 259 pp. RRP £19.99.

Social Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Critical Introduction. Christine Cheyne, Mike O'Brien and Michael Belgrave. Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000. ISBN 0195584422 (paperback). 275 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP NZ$37.95, A$28.95.

Citizenship and Migration: Globalization and the Politics of Belonging. Stephen Castles and Alastair Davidson. Macmillan, London, 2000. ISBN 0333643100. vii + 258 pp.; RRP $47.00.

Queer City: Gay and Lesbian Politics in Sydney. Craig Johnston and Paul van Reyk (eds). Pluto, Sydney, 2001. ISBN 1864031921. 322 pp. RRP $32.95.

Environmental Planning and Management in New Zealand. P. Ali Memon and Harvey C. Perkins (eds). Dunmore, Palmerston North, rev. edn, 2000. ISBN 086469363X (paperback). 401 pp.; bibliography and index. RRP NZ$66.00.

Resetting the Compass: Australia's Journey Towards Sustainability. David Yencken and Debra Wilkinson. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2000. ISBN 0643063854 (paperback). 416 pp.; endnotes and index. RRP $39.95.     

Book reviews

AUSTRALIA'S POPULATION CARRYING CAPACITY: an Analysis of Eight Natural Resources. Peter Newman. Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Murdoch University, Perth, 1998. ISBN-none. 109pp including bibliography.

POPULATION-ECONOMY-ENVIRONMENT: RELATIONSHIPS IN THE WOLLONGONG REGION. Richard Cardew and Patricia Fanning. AGPS, Canberra, 1996. ISBN 0-644-39599-4. 80pp, bibliography, RRP $11.95, paperback.

AUSTRALIAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT — REFORM AND RENEWAL. Edited by Brian Dollery and Neil Marshall. Macmillan Education, Australia, 1997. ISBN 0 7329 2903 0 (pbk). 343 pages, $34.95 (pbk).

PLANNING PRACTICE 1998: The best and worst examples of city planning and development. Kate Shaw (ed). People's Committee for Melbourne, North Melbourne, 1998. ISBN 0-958-57170-8. 104pp including bibliography, $10.00 paperback.

APPLYING THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE. Adrian Deville & Ronnie Harding. The Federation Press, Sydney, 1997. ISBN 1 86287 203 1 (pbk). 79pp, incl. Bibliography, RRP $19.95.

MELBOURNE'S MARVELLOUS TRAMS. Dale Budd and Randall Wilson. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney 1998. ISBN 0-868-40504-3. 96pp, $29.95.

CITIES OF DIFFERENCE. Ruth Fincher and Jane M. Jacobs (eds). The Guilford Press, New York, 1998. ISBN: 1-57230-311-5. 322pp, $88.00, hardcover.     

Almost like Government …

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE: a Multicultural Planning History. Leonie Sandercock (Ed). University of California Press, Los Angeles, 1998. ISBN 0–520–20734–3. 270pp.

CITIES ON THE SHORE: The urban littoral frontier. Brian J. Hudson. Pinter, London, 1996. ISBN 1–85567–381–9. 180pp, $108.00, hardcover.

CONTESTED URBAN HERITAGE: Voices from the periphery. Brian J. Shaw and Roy Jones (Eds). Ashgate Publishing, UK, 1997. ISBN 1 85972 554 6. 205pp, Hard cover.

ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION‐MAKING: The Roles of Scientists, Engineers and the Public. Ronnie Harding (Ed). The Federation Press, Sydney, 1998. ISBN 186287 279 l (pbk). 366pp, incl. case studies, references, glossary &; index.. $39.95rrp.

RETURNING TO NOTHING: The meaning of lost places. Peter Read. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. ISBN 0 521 57154 5. 240pp, bibliography, index, RRP A$29.95 (pbk).     

Book reviews

URBAN TRANSPORT. Kevin Hay and John Sheldrake (editors). Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 1997. ISBN 1 85972 466 3 (hardback). 133 pp, bibliography and index. rrp $84.50.

ASIANS IN AUSTRALIA: Patterns of Migration and Settlement. James E. Coughlan and Deborah J. McNamara (editors). Macmillan Education Australia, Melbourne, 1997. ISBN 0 7329 4561 5 (hardback). 330pp, bibliography and index. rrp $64.95.

SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN EUROPEAN CITIES: Processes, Experiences and Responses. Ali Madanipour, Goran Cars and Judith Allen (editors). Jessica Kingsley and the Regional Studies Association, London, 1998. ISBN 1 85302 609 3 (paperback). 301pp, bibliography and index. rrp UK17.95stlg.

THE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: Western Australia. Hugh Reynolds and Peter Solomon. Victor Publishing, Perth, 1998. ISBN 0 646 35442 6 (paperback). 174pp. rrp $65.00.

THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power. Shore, C. and Wright, S. (editors). Routledge, London, 1998. ISBN 0 415 13221 5. 294pp, bibliography and index. rrp $39.95.

THE CHANGING SHAPE OF WORK. Richard K. Brown (editor). Macmillan Press Limited, London, 1997. ISBN 0 312 17251 6 (paperback). 223pp including bibliography and index. rrp $42.95.     

Book reviews

JOBS OF OUR OWN: Building a Stake-holder Society. Race Mathews. Pluto Press, Annandale, NSW,. and Comerford and Miller, West Wickham, Kent, 1999. ISBN 1 86403 064 X (paperback). 308pp including bibliography. rrp$24.95.

FROM UTOPIAN DREAMING TO COMMUNAL REALITY: Co-operative Lifestyles in Australia. Bill Metcalf (editor). University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1995. ISBN 0 86840 087 4 (paperback). 196pp with bibliography. rrp $24.95.

HOME/WORLD: Space, Community and Marginality in Sydney's West. Helen Grace, Ghassan Hage, Lesley Johnson, Julie Langsworth and Michael Symonds. Pluto Press, Sydney, 1997. ISBN 1 86403 036 4 (paperback). 204pp including index and bibliographies. rrp$24.95.

RENEWING AUSTRALIAN PLANNING? New Challenges, New Agendas. Brendan Gleeson and Penny Hanley (editors). Urban Research Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, 1998. ISBN 0 7315 3501 4 (paperback). 111pp rrp $10.00.     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century Witold Rybczynski. Scribner, New York, 1999. 480 pp. $28.

Remaking Chicago: The Political Origins of Urban Industrial Change Joel Rast. Northern Illinois University Press, DeKalb, 1999. 201 pp. $36.

Mapping Boston Alex Krieger and David Cobb with Amy Turner, editors. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 278 pp. $50.

Los Angeles: Globalization, Urbanization and Social Struggles Roger Keil. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998. 296 pp. $32.50 (paperback).

Urban Latino Cultures: La Vida Latina en L.A. Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl Villa, and Michael J. Dear, editors. SAGE Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, in association with the Southern California Studies Center of the University of Southern California, 1999. 214 pp. $65, $25.95 (paperback).

Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1999. 342 pp. $25.

The Celebration Chronicles: Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Property Values in Disney's New Town Andrew Ross. Ballantine Books, New York, 1999. 352 pp. $25.95.

Homelessness in the United States, Europe, and Russia: A Comparative Perspective Carl O. Helvie and Wilfried Lunstmann, editors. Greenwood, Westport, CT, 1999. 280 pp. $69.50.

Shelter and Society: Theory, Research, and Policy for Nonprofit Housing C. Theodore Koebel, editor. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1998. 279 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy Sandra J. Newman, editor. Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1999. 249 pp. $49.50, $19.50 (paperback).

Understanding Local Economic Development Emil E. Malizia and Edward J. Feser. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, 1999. 314 pp. $24.95.

Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl is Undermining America's Environment, Economy and Social Fabric F. Kaid Benfield, Mathew Raimi, and Donald Chen. Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC, 1999. 215 pp. $20 (paperback).

When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe Thomas Daniels. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1999. 361 pp. $32.50 (paperback).

The Tourist City Dennis R. Judd and Susan S. Fainstein, editors. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1999. 340 pp. $40, $17.95 (paperback).

Managing Tourism Growth: Issues and Applications Fred P. Bosselman, Craig A. Peterson, and Claire McCarthy. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1999. 320 pp. $40 (paperback).

Rapid Watershed Planning Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Managing Urbanizing Watersheds Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott, MD, 1998. 336 pp. $40 (paperback).

Better Site Design: A Handbook for Changing Development Rules in Your Community Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott, MD, 1998. 195 pp. $35 (paperback).

Nutrient Loading from Conventional and Innovative Site Development Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott, MD, 1998. 75 pp. $20 (paperback).

Bay Cities and Water Politics: The Battle for Resources in Boston and Oakland Sarah S. Elkind. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 1998. 246 pp. $35.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America John M. Barry. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1997. 422 pp. $15 (paperback).

Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History Erik Larson. Crown Publishers, New York, 1999. 323 pp. $25.

Managing for the Environment: Understanding the Legal, Organizational, and Policy Challenges Rosemary O' Leary, Robert F. Durant, Daniel J. Fiorino, and Paul S. Weiland. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1999. 436 pp. $29.95.

Our Common Journey: A Pioneering Approach to Cooperative Environmental Management Paul E. De Jongh with Susan Captain. Zed Books, New York, 1999. 298 pp. $65, $25 (paperback).

Sustaining Cities: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design Josef Leitmann. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1999. 412 pp. $69.95.

Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1999. 416 pp. $40 (paperback).

City, Space, and Globalization: An International Perspective Hemalata C. Dandekar, editor. College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1998. 391 pp. $14.50 (paperback).

The City and Its Sciences Cristoforo S. Bertuglia, Giuliano Bianchi, and Alfredo Mela, editors. Physica-Verlag, New York, 1998. 914 pp. $129.

The ABZs of Planning Management Paul C. Zucker. West Coast Publishers, San Diego, 1997. 321 pp. $34.95 (paperback).

What Your Planning Professors Forgot to Tell You: 117 Lessons Every Planner Should Know Paul C. Zucker. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1999. 210 pp. $26.95 (paperback).     

Briefly Noted

Policy Indicators: Links Between Social Science and Public Debate Duncan MacRae, Jr. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C., 1985. 414 pp. $36.00.

Applied Urban Analysis: A Critique and Synthesis Ian Cullen. Methuen, London and New York, 1985. 216 pp. $27.00 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback).

Politics, Prices, and Petroleum: The Political Economy of Energy David Clasner. Pacific Institute for Public Policy Research, San Francisco, Calif., and Ballinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1985. 297 pp. $35.00 (cloth), $12.95 (paperback, available only from the Pacific Institute).

Small Cities and Counties: A Guide to Managing Services James M. Banovetz, editor. International City Management Association, Washington, 1984. 356 pp. $28.50 (paperback).

The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich and the Challenge of Urban Populism Todd Swanstrom. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1985. 252 pp. $24.95.

A City Divided: Johannesburg and Soweto Nigel Mandy. Macmillan and St. James, New York, 1984. 470 pp. $35.00.     

Literature in Planning

Citizen Governance Leading American Communities into the 21st Century Richard C. Box. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998. 176 pp. $4.00, $21.95 (paperback).

Government Is Us: Public Administration in an Anti-Government Era Cheryl Simrell King and Camilla Stivers, editors. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998. 213 pp. $44.00, $23.95 (paperback).

The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History Richard Lehan. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998. 330 pp. $17.95 (paperback).

October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature Carlo Rotella. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998. 358 pp. $50.00, $18.95 (paperback).

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed James C. Scott. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998. xiv + 445 pp. $35.00.

Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use Raymond J. Burby and Peter J. May, with Philip R. Burke, Linda C. Dalton, Steven P. French, and Edward J. Kaiser. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997. 192 pp. $32.50.

Design of Urban Space: An Inquiry into a Socio-Spatial Process Ali Madanipour. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, 1996. 254 pp. $46.95 (paperback).

Representation of Places: Reality and Realism in City Design Peter Bosselmann. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998. 228 pp. $35.00.

Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1997. 261 pp. $25.00.

Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth-Century Urbanism Zane L. Miller and Bruce Tucker. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998. 227 pp. $32.00, $15.95 (paperback)

Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History Leonie Sandercock, editor. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 1998. 282 pp. $34.00, $15.95 (paperback).

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood David Simon and Edward Burns. Broadway Books, New York, 1997. 543 pp. $27.50, $15.00 (paperback).

The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy Alejandro Portes, Carlos Dore-Cabral, and Patricia Landolt, editors. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1997. 296 pp. $48.50, $17.95 (paperback).

Jobs &; Economic Development: Strategies and Practice Robert P. Giloth, editor. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998. 262 pp. $51.00, $24.95 (paperback).

Texas Land Ethics Pete A.Y. Gunter and Max Oelschlaeger. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1997. 176 pp. $18.95 (paperback).

Affordable Housing and Urban Redevelopment in the United States: Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Volume 46 Willem Van Vliet–, editor. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997. 288 pp. $62.00, $27.50 (paperback).

Insurance Redlining: Disinvestment, Reinvestment and the Evolving Role of Financial Institutions Gregory D. Squires, editor. The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1997. 280 pp. $67.50, $24.95 (paperback).

Segregation in Federally Subsidized Low-Income Housing in the United States Modibo Coulibaly, Rodney D. Green, and David M. James. Praeger, Westport, CT, 1998. 168 pp. $65.00.

The Encyclopedia of Housing Willem Van Vliet–, editor. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 1998. xxiv+712 pp. $169.95.     

Life Imitating Art — Le Corbusier centenary

Le Corbusier. Architect of the century. Michael Raeburn and Victoria Wilson (eds), Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1987 368 pp, £15.00, ISBN 0 7287 0525 7

Le Corbusier: to live with the light. Maurice Besset, Rizzoli International, New York, 1987 230 pp, $25.00, ISBN 0 8478 0816 5

Concepts and influences: towards a regionalized international architecture. Rifat Chadirji, KPI, London, 1987 189 pp, £35.00, ISBN 0 7103 0180 4