Book reviews

Housing Systems in Europe Part I A Comparative Study of Housing Policy. Peter Boelhouwer & Harry van der Heijden 314 pp

Part II A Comparative Study of Housing Finance. Oscar Papa 207 pp Delft University Press, 1992

Time to put our House in Order. John Newton The Catholic Housing Aid Society, 1993, 88 pp., £9.50 paper

Repossessed. A Fresh Look at Mortgage Lending Practice. Sarah Jenkinson The Catholic Housing Aid Society, 1992, 73 pp., £7.50, paper

All in One Place. The British Housing Story 1971–1990. John Newton The Catholic Housing Aid Society, 1991, 109 pp., £7.99, paper

Housing for Life. Christine Davies E. & F. N. Spon, 1992, 168 pp., £14.95

Whatever Happened to Local Government?. Allan Cochrane Open University Press, 1993, 124 pp., £10.99

In Search of a Home: Rental and Shared Housing in Latin America. Alan Gilbert, in association with Oscar Olinto Camacho, Rene Coulomb and Andres Necochea. London, UCL Press, 1993, pp. 192, £35     

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

Housing Finance in the 1990s. C. Whitehead & B. Turner (Eds)National Swedish Institute for Building Research, Gavle, 1993, 330 pp., ISBN 91–7111–068–2

Markets and Managers—New Issues in the Delivery of Welfare. Peter Taylor Gooby & Robyn Lawson (Eds) Buckingham, Open University Press, 1993, 190 pp., £37.50 hardback, £12.99 paperback

Housing Finance and Subsidies in Britain. Duncan Maclennan & Kenneth Gibb (Eds) Aldershot, Avebury, 1993, 218 pp., £35

The Estate Action Initiative: Council Housing Renewal, Management and Effectiveness. Ricardo Pinto Aldershot, Avebury, 1993, 286 pp., £35

Keeping to the Marketplace: the Evaluation of Canadian Housing Policy. John C. Bacher Montreal and Kingston, McGill‐Queens University Press, 1993, 327 pp., C$55.00, £42.45 UK

The Reform of Housing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. B. Turner, J. Hegedüs & I. Tosics London, Routledge, 1992, 362 pp., £45 hardback

Neighbour Disputes: Responses by Social Landlords. Valerie Karn, Rachel Liskinn, David Hughes & John Cawley Coventry Institute of Housing, 1993, 158 pp.     

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

Housing in Scotland. Hector Currie & Alan Murie (Eds). Chartered Institute of Housing. Policy and Practice Series, £15.00 paperback. ISBN 0 901607 91 6.

The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments. D. Benjamin (Ed.). Avebury, Aldershot 1995, £37.00 hardback. ISBN 1 856628 8889.

Rethinking Local Democracy. Desmond King & Gerry Stoker (Eds). Macmillan, London, 1996, 233 pp, £13.95, paperback. ISBN 8039 8864 8.

An Introduction to Social Housing. Paul Reeves. Arnold, London, 1996, 273 pp, £13.99, paperback. ISBN 0 340 661976.

Representing the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty‐First Century Metropolis. Anthony D. King (Ed.). Macmillan Press, London, 1996, £13.99, paperback. ISBN 0 333601920.

Homeless. Gerald Daly. Routledge, London, 1996, 293 pp., £14.95. ISBN 0415 12029 2.

The Environmental Impact of Land and Property Management. Yvonne Rydin (Ed.). Wiley, Chichester, 1996, 196 pp., £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 471966126.

Conservation and the City. Peter Larkham. Routledge, London, 1996, 329 pp., £17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 079478.     

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

Comparing Housing Systems. Housing Performance and Housing Policy in the United States and Britain. Valerie Karn and Harold Wolman: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992 pp274. £27.50.

A New Century of Social Housing. S. Lowe and D. Hughes (eds). Leicester University Press, 1991, pp189, £35.00.

Urban Housing for the Better‐Off: Gentrification in Europe. Jan van Weesep and Sako Musterd. Utrecht, The Netherlands: Bureau Stedekijke Net‐werken, 1991, pp148, D. Fr. 30.

Europe and 1992. A Handbook for Local Housing Authorities. Madeline Drake. Institute of Housing, 1992, £7.95.

The Shek Kip Mei Syndrome: Economic Development and Public Housing in Hong Kong and Singapore. M. Castells, L. Goh, R.Y. Kwok. London: Pion, 1990, pp351, $79.00

Issues in Post‐Divorce Housing. Peter McCarthy and Bob Simpson. Aldershot: Avebury, 1991. pp153. £30.00.     

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

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

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     

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 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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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).     

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring the lands,waters and living resources of the United States

Landscape Transformed

London, Academy Editions, 1996, 112 pp., no price given, ISBN 1–85490–452–3

Sculpting with the Environment: a natural dialogue

Baile Oakes (Ed.)

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995, ISBN 0–442–01642–5, 252 pp., £45.00, hb.

After the Ruins: restoring the countryside of Northern France after the Great War

Hugh Clout

Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1996, ISBN 0–85989–491–6,332 pp., £35.

Environmental Aesthetics: ideas, politics and planning

J. Douglas Porteous

London and New York, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0–415–13769–1, 20 pp., £15.99.

Countryside Survey 1990 Main Report

C.J. Barr, R.G.H. Bunce, R.T. Clarke, R.M. Fuller, M.T. Furse, M.K. Gillespie, G.B. Groom, C.J. Hallam, M. Hornung, D.C. Howard &; M.J. Ness

London, Department of the Environment, 1993, 174 pp., £12.00 (available from DoE Publications Sales Unit, Block 3, Spur 2, Government Buildings, Lime Grove, Eastcote, HA4 8SE)

World of Environmental Design, Volume 1: Urban Spaces I (Streets and Squares)

Francisco Asenio Cerver

Barcelona, Arco Editorial, 1995, 255 pp., US$75 (per volume) ISBN 84–8185–004–7 (complete work), ISBN 84–8185–005–5 (Volume 1)

’The Remains of Distant Times’: archaeology and the National Trust

David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway &; David Thackray (Eds)

Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1996, ISBN 0–85115–671–1, hb, 235 pp., £29.50

Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing 1815–1852

D. Schuyler

Baltimore, fohns Hopkins University Press, 1996, ISBN 0–8018–5229–3, $35.95     

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

Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government. E. McKenzie London: Yale University Press, 1994, 237 pp., £25 cloth ISBN 0–300–05876–4

The Suburban Racial Dilemma. W. Dennis Keating Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, $49.95 cloth, ISBN 1566 3914 74, $22.95 paper, ISBN 1566 3914 82

Urban Process and Power. P. Ambrose London, Routledge, 1994, 240 pp., £40.00 hardback, ISBN 0415 00850 6, £22.99 paper, ISBN 0415 00851 4

Housing Management, Community Care and Competitive Tendering — A Good Practice Guide. David Clapham & Bridget Franklin London, Institute of Housing, 1994, £10.95 ISBN 0901 607762

Customer Service in a Competitive Environment. J. Passmore & S. Fergusson London, Institute of Housing, 1994, £14.95 ISBN 0901 607746     

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

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

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

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. S. Graham & S. Marvin. London and New York, Routledge, 1996, 434 pp., £15.99 pbk. ISBN: 0 415 11903 0.

Housing Policy in Scotland. T. Begg. John Donald, Edinburgh, 1996, £16 pbk. ISBN: 0 85976 433 8.

Developments in Housing Management and Ownership. Ricardo Pinto (Ed.). Manchester University Press, 1995, 267 pp., £45.00 hbk. ISBN: 0 7190 3713 1.

A New Social Atlas of Britain. Daniel Dorling. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1995, 247pp., £35.00 hbk. ISBN: 0 4719 4868 3.