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.     

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Books reviewed in this article:
Local and Regional Economic Development: Renegotiating Power Under Labour. R.J. Bennett and D. Payne.
International Migration into the 21^st Century. Essays in Honour of Reginald Appleyard. M.A.B. Siddique (ed.).
Economic Structure and Maturity: Collected papers in input-output modelling and applications. Ranko Bon.
Regional planning and development in Europe. David Shaw, Peter Roberts, and James Walsh (eds).     

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Environmental Regulation in a Federal System: Framing Environmental Policy in the European Union. Tim Jeppesen
Innovation and the Growth of Cities. Zoltan J. Acs
International Finance and Open-Economy Macro-Economics. Giancarlo Gandolfo
Sports and City Marketing in European Cities. Leo van den Berg, Erik Braun, and Alexander H. J. Otagaar
China and its Regions: Economic Growth and Reform in Chinese Provinces (Series on New Horizons in International Business ). Mary-Francoise Renard (ed.)