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Goldsmith, M. J. (ed.), New Research in Central‐Local Relations. Aldershot: Gower, 1986.

Gottdiener, M., The Decline of Urban Politics. Political Theory and the Crisis of the Local State. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1987.

Page, E. C. and M.‐J. Goldsmith (eds), Central and Local Government Relations. A Comparative Analysis of West European Unitary States. London: Sage Publications, 1987.

Richard D. Bingham, Roy E. Green and Sammis B. White (eds), The Homeless in Contemporary Society. Newbury Park, Cal.: SAGE Focus Edition, 1987.

Jürgen Friedrichs (ed.), Affordable Housing and the Homeless. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1988.

Tadashi Toyama, Identity and Milieu. Stockholm: Royal Institute of Technology, 1988.

Ray Forrest and Alan Murie, Selling the Welfare State: The Privatisation of Public Housing. London and New York: Routledge, 1988.     

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ENVIRONMENTS AND HISTORICAL CHANGE — THE LINACRE LECTURES, edited by Paul Slack, Oxford University Press 1999, ISBN 0–19–823388–4, 196 pages (Hbk, £30).

ALTERED GENES — RECONSTRUCTING NATURE: THE DEBATE, edited by Richard Hindmarsh, Geoffrey Lawrence and Janet Norton, Allen and Unwin, 1998, ISBN 1 86448 795 X, 228 Pages (No price supplied).

ORGANIZATIONAL MASTERY WITH INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, CONTROLLING THE DRAGON, by Michael T. Noble, John Wiley & Sons, United States of America, 2000, IBSN 0–474–38928–5, pp. xvi + 310 index (Hbk, £55).

METHODOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ISSUES IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, A special Report of IPCC Working. Group III, Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 0–521–80494–9, pp. xii + 466 (Pbk $35.95; Hbk, $100).

MANAGING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, by Michael Carley and Ian Christie, Earthscan, London, 2nd Edition, 2000, ISBN 1–85383–440–8; pp. xiv + 322, index (Pbk, £15.95).

LAND OF WATERS, EXPLORATIONS IN THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GUYANA, SOUTH AMERICA, edited by Ro McConnell, The Book Guide Ltd., Lewes. Sussex (UK), 2000, ISBN 1 85776 458 7; pp. xii + 389, index (Hbk, £18.50).

SWIMMING WITH DOLPHINS — A HEALING EXPERIENCE, by Lisa Tenzin‐Dolma and Contributors, Quantum Publishers, London, 1997, ISBN 0–572–02364–2; p. 127 (Pbk, £6.99).

THE SULFUR PROBLEM CLEANING UP INDUSTRIAL FEED STOCKS, RSC Clean Technology Monographs, by Diane Stirling, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2000. ISBN 0–85404–541–4; pp. x + 93, index (HbK, £55).

A CONSUMER'S GUIDE TO GM FOOD, Green genes and red herrings, by Alan McHughen, Oxford University Press, 2000 pp. viii+ 270 (Pbk, £9.99).

THE GREEN GUIDE TO BETTER LIVING, Take care of yourself, your family and the environment, by Ann and Terry Whitefield, Need2Know, Peterborough, England, 2000, ISBN 1–88144–041–3, p. 130 (Hbk, £12.99).

CLIMATE FOR CHANGE: NON‐STATE ACTORS AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF THE GREENHOUSE, by P. Newell, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (UK) 2000, p. 222, ISBN 0–521–63250–1 (Hbk, $69.95).

PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE HELD IN STUTTGART (GERMANY) APRIL 6 and 7, 2000: [THE SEVILLA PROCESS — MOTOR FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL INDUSTRY], no editor named, Umweltbundeasamt, Berlin, F.R. Germany, 142 pp., softbound (D.M. 20.00).

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S INTER‐ORGANIZATION PROGRAMME FOR THE SOUND MANAGEMENT OF CHEMICALS.

CONCISE INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL ASSESSMENT DOCUMENTS.

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION'S INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME ON CHEMICAL SAFETY. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH CRITERIA.

READING ZOOS: REPRESENTATIONS OF ANIMALS AND CAPTIVITY, by R. Malamud, Macmillan Press, London, 1998, 377 pp. (pbk, £14.99).

PORT AND HARBOUR ENGINEERING, edited by Adeian Jarvis, Ashgate Publishing, London, 2000, 456 pp. (Hbk, $156.95).

OCEAN'S END; TRAVEL THROUGH ENDANGERED SEAS by C. Woodward, Perseus Books Group, New York, 2000, 300 pp. (Hbk, $26).

USING TODAY'S SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE FOR THE BLACK SEA AREA'S DEVELOPMENT TOMORROW, Proceedings of the IOI‐BSOC Leadership Seminar edited by A. S. Bologa and R. H. Charlier. International Ocean Institute. Black Sea Operational Centre, Published by Editura Dada, Constanta, Romania 2000, 210 pp., ill., color, contents 8 1/2 x 11 inches ISBN 973–993 12–9‐4 (Hbk, no price shown; suggestion: send $35 in banknotes, registered mail to A. Bologa, Scientific Director, Romaman Marine Research Institute, Blvd. Mamaia, RO‐3000 Constanta, Romania).     

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Although far less famous than his Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm City Library or Gothenburg Law Courts, Gunnar Asplund's National Bacteriological Laboratories at Solna occupy a special place in his work, epitomising his short-lived functionalist phase. Dedicated, in the period before antibiotics, to the elimination of dangerous diseases and the production of anti-serums, the laboratories also reflect the general concern with health and hygiene that so deeply imbued modernist thinking. But after his long exposure to history and search for appropriate style, Asplund's interpretation could not avoid tacitly embracing social and symbolic issues alongside the purely technical and, for an architect so sensitive to contextual issues, nor could it avoid engagement with the landscape.     

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The Latin American City. Alan Gilbert. London, Latin American Bureau, 1994, 190 pp., £8.99, paperback. ISBN: 0906 156823.

The Homeless. Christopher Jencks. Harvard University Press, London, 1994, 161pp., £14.25 ISBN: 0674405951.

The Housing Authority as an Enabler. R. Goodlad. Longman/CIOH, 1993, 211pp., £14.95 ISBN: 0582 081 882.

The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City. Joel Schwartz. ISBN: 08142 05879.

Maintaining Home Ownership: the Agency Approach. P. Leather & S. Mackintosh. The Housing Practice series, Longman/Institute of Housing, 1992. ISBN: 0582 09592–1.     

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Success and Failure in Housing Provision. European Systems Compared. James Barlow & Simon Duncan. Oxford, New York & Tokyo, Pergamon, 1994, 170 pp., £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 080 41029 4

Housing Women. R. Gilroy & R. Woods. London, Routledge, 1994, £40.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0415 09462 3/09463 1

The Gypsy and the State: The Ethnic Cleansing of British Society. Derek Hawes & Barbara Perez. Bristol, School for Advanced Urban Studies, 1995, 159 pp., £12.95. ISBN 1 873575 769

Urban Land and Property Markets The Netherlands. D. B. Needham, B. Kruijt & P. Koenders. 1993, 228 pp., £38

Germany. H. Dietrich, E. Dransfeld & W. Voß. 1993, 275 pp., £40

France. R. Acosta & V. Renard. 1993, 166 pp., £40

The UK. R. H. Williams & B. Wood. London, UCL Press, 1994, 275 pp., £40

Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City (Urban Affairs Annual Review 41). Robert Fisher & Joseph Kling (Eds). Newbury Park, Sage, xxiii & 338 pp., £19.95, paperback. ISBN 0 803942

International Counterurbanization. British Migrants in Rural France. Henry Buller & Keith Hoggart. Aldershot, Avebury, 1994, £30. ISBN 1 85628 508 1