Book Reviews and Notes

Full Employment in a Free Society, By William H. Beveridge. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1945.

The City is the People. By Henry S. Churchill. New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945.

Time For Planning: A Social-Economic Theory and Program for the Twentieth Century. By Lewis L. Lorwin. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945.

Chicago Looks Ahead. Chicago, Ill., Chicago Plan Commission, 145.

Manual of Traffic Engineering Studies. New York, Association of Casualty and Surety Executives, 1945.

Mistakes We Have Made in Developing Shopping Centers. By J. C. Nichols, Washington, Urban Land Institute, 1945.

Urban Redevelopment Legislation in the United States. Chicago, American Society of Planning Officials, 1945.

Rebuilding Britain — A Twenty-Year Plan. By E. D. Simon. London, Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1945.

Garden Cities and the Metropolis. By Lloyd Rodwin, in the Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, Vol. XXI, No. 3. Madison, Wis., August, 1945.     

Book Reviews and Notes

American Housing: Problems and Prospects. The Factual Findings by Miles L. Colean. The Program by The Housing Committee. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 1944. Pp.xxii, 466. $3.00.

The New City. By L. Hilberseimer. Theobald, Chicago. 192 pp. Illustrated. $5.95

The New Architecture and City Planning. A Symposium, edited by Paul Zucker, published by Philosophical Library, New York, 694 pp. illustrated $10.00.

Community Centers. The Ministry of Education. London, H.M.S.O., 1944.

Planning Your Community: A Manual of Suggestions for Practical Community Planning. By C. Earl Morrow. New York City, Regional Plan Association, Inc., c. 1945, 50 cents.

Towards A Plan for Oxford City. By Lawrence Dale. London, Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.     

A Reply to Mr. Howard

america's Needs and Resources, By J. Frederick Dewhurst and Associates, New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, 812 plus xxviii pages. $5.00.

Communitas—Means of Livelihood and Ways of life. By Percival Goodman and Paul Goodman. 1947. The University of Chicago Press. 151 pages. $6.00.

Georgian london. By John Summerson. Scribner's. 1946. 315 pages. $5.00.

The Castles on The Ground. By J. M. Richards. The Architectural Press. 1946. 86 pages. $3.25

UN Headquarters. By Le Corbusier. Reinhold Publishing Corp. 1947. 88 pages. $3.50.

The Small Community Looks Ahead. By Wayland J. Hayes. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1947. 276 pp., illustrated. $3.00.

An Appraisal Method for Measuring The Quality of Housing: PART II. Appraisal Of Dwelling Conditions. By the Committee on the Hygiene of Housing, American Public Health Association. 1946. Volume A, Survey Director's Manual 105 pages. Volume B, Field Procedures. Pages 107-168. $1.00. Volume C, Office Procedures, Pages 169-248. $2.00.

County Town, A Civic Survey For The Planning Of Worcester. By Janet Glaisyer et al. Prepared for the Worcester City Council. John Murray, London. 1946.

English County, A Planning Survey Of Herefordshire. By the West Mid-land Group on Post-War Reconstruction and and Planning. Faber and Faber, London. 1946.

Architecture And Building In Leningrad, November 1946.

Urban Economy of Moscow, Monthly Review NO. 1, 1947. Obtainable through the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., 114 East 32nd Street, New York 16, New York.     

Economic Factors of Growing and Stationary Cities

Planning the Modern City. By Harold MacLean Lewis. John Wiley &; Sons, Inc., New York; Chapman &; Hall, Ltd., London. 1949. Vol. I, 284 pages and 251 illustrations; Vol. 11, 224 pages and 251 illustrations. Each volume, $6.00.

Shops and Stores. By Morris Ketchum, Jr. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York. 1948. 308 pages. $10.00.

Planningstores That Pay. By Dr. Louis Parnes. Architectural Record, New York. 1948. 313 pages. $15.00.

Shopping Centers in Urban Redevelopment. By Robert M. Lillibridge. Reprinted from The Journal of Land &; Public Utility Economics, Vol. XXIV, Number 2, May 1948. 24 pages.

The Location of Economic Activity. By Edgar M. Hoover. New York, McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc. 1948. xv + 310 pages. $3.50.

Concerning Town Planning. By Le Corbusier (trans. Clive Entwistle). Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1948. 127 pages. 92.75.

The New Town Planning. By Gaston Bardet (in French). Vincent Frhel et Cie. Paris. 1948. 304 pages. Maps, tables and illustrations. $6.50. (From Architectural Hook Publishing Co., New York.)     

Reviews

Books & Videos: Community Development and Neighborhood Planning, Northeast Passage: The Inner City and the American Dream [Video] Cornelius Swart and Spencer Wolf, producers. SydHonda Cinema Productions, 2002. 55 minutes. $250.

Economic Development, Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital James DeFilippis. Routledge, New York, 2004. 224 pages. $22.95.

Environmental Planning and Management, Environmental Land Use Planning and Management John Randolph. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 664 pages. $55., The Environmental Planning Handbook for Sustainable Communities and Regions Tom Daniels and Katherine Daniels. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 2003. 524 pages. $74.95.

Infrastructure and Capital Facilities, Making Room for the Future: Rebuilding California's Infrastructure David E. Dowall and Jan Whittington. Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, 2003. 256 pages. $25.

International Planning and Development, Living with the Past: Historic Cairo [Video]Elizabeth Fernea, producer. 2001. First Run/Icarus Films. 56 min. $390.

Lagos/Koolhaas [Video], Sylvia Baan for Pieter van Huystee Film, producer. 2003. First Run/Icarus Films. 55 min. $390.

Amsterdam Human Capital, Sako Musterd and William Salet, editors. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2003. 384 pages. $45.

Irish Regional Development: A New Agenda, Eoin O'Leary, editor. Liffey Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2003. 248 pages. $29.95 (paperback).

Bread Day (Chlebni Den) [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1998. 53 minutes. $390.

From The East (D'Est) [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1993. 110 minutes. $440.

Magnitogorsk: Forging the New Man [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1996. 60 minutes. $390.

The Wild East: Portrait of an Urban Nomad [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 2002. 54 minutes. $390.

Sotsgorod: Cities For Utopia [Video] First Run/Icarus Films, producer. 1995. 92 minutes. $398.

Planning and Politics, Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetics in an American Suburb James Duncan and Nancy Duncan. Routledge, New York, 2004. 262 pages. $22.95 (paperback).

Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe, H.V. Savitch and Paul Kantor. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2002. 480 pages. $60, $19.95 (paperback).

Planning and Politics: Landscapes of Privilege: The Politics of the Aesthetics in an American, Suburb James Duncan and Nancy Duncan. Routledge, New York, 2004. 262 pages. $22.95 (paperback).

The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds, Mike Stanton. Random House, New York, 2003. 442 pages. $25.95.

Securing the Spectacular City: The Politics of Revitalization and Homelessness in Downtown, a Seattle Timothy A. Gibson. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2004. 322 pages. $70.

Leasing Public Land: Policy Debates and International Experiences Steven C. Bourassa and Yu Hong Hong, editors. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 303 pages. $20.

Property Rights: Leasing Public Land: Policy Debates and International Experiences, Steven C. Bourassa and Yu-Hong Hong, editors. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 303 pages. $20.

Private Property in the 21st Century: The Future of an American Ideal, Harvey M. Jacobs, editor. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2004. 192 pages. $85.

Urban Design, Superbia!31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods Dan Chiras and Dave Wann. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2003. 170 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems Gwendolyn Hallsmith. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, 2003. 247 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland, editors. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 254 pages. $55, $32 (paperback).

Urban Villages and the Making of Communities Peter Neal, editor. Spon Press, London and New York, 2003. 258 pages. $43.95 (paperback).

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850–1930 Terence Young. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004. 272 pages. $45.

Briefly Noted, Workforce Development Politics: Civic Capacity and Performance Robert P. Giloth, editor. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2004. 269 pages. $72.50, $24.95 (paperback).

Me++ The Cyborg, Self and the Networked City William J. Mitchell. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 269 pages. $27.95, $14.95 (paperback).

The Cybercities Reader Stephen Graham, editor. Routledge, London, 2004. 444 pages. $125, $34.95 (paperback).

World City Network–A Global Urban Analysis Peter J. Taylor. Routledge, London, 2004. 256 pages. $110, $29.95 (paperback).

Moving People, Goods, and Information in the 21st Century Richard E. Hanley, editor. Routledge, London, 2004. 336 pages. $120, $60.95 (paperback).

De-Coca-Colonization—Making the Globe from the Inside Out Steven Flusty. Routledge, New York, 2004. 256 pages. $85, $19.95 (paperback).

Forthcoming in the Journal: Spring 2005     

Book Reviews and Lists

Transportation by Water. By Emory R. Johnson, Grover G. Huebner and Arnold K. Henry. New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc.,1935. 585 pages. Illus., maps (one folded), charts(part folded), tables. 5 3/4 × 8 3/4 inches. (Appleton Transportation Series, edited by Emory R. Johnson.) Price $5.00.

Developing America's Waterways: Administration of the Inland Waterways Corporation. By Marshall E. Dimock. Chicago, University of Chicago Press,1935. 123 ages. Illus., map, tables, charts. 5 1/2 × 8 3/4 inches. (Studies in Public Administration, Vol. IV.) Price $1.50.

Public Works in Prosperity and Depression. By Arthur D. Gayer. New York, National Bureau of Economic Research,1935. 460 pages. Charts, tables. 6 × 9 1/4 inches. (Prepared for the National Planning Board, Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., No. 29.) Price $3.00.

The Use of Photographs in Town Planning and Design. By Percy J. Waldram and J. M. Waldram. London, P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 1934. 24 pages. Illus, charts, diagrams. 8 1/2 × 11 inches. (Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Vo1.40, Series 3, No. 15, 1933, and Vol.41, Series 3, No.10, 19a Price 2s.6d.     

Reports from the Field

Planning the Neighborhood. By the Committee on the Hygiene of Housing of the American Public Health Association. Public Administration Service, Chicago, Ill., 1948. 90 pages, $2.50.

The Process and Organization of Government Planning. By John D. Millett, Columbia University Press, New York. 1947. 187 pages, $2.50.

Mechanization Takes Command — a contribution to anonymous history. By Siegfried Giedion. Oxford University Press, New York. 1948. 743 pages. $12.50.

Men, Cities and Transportation, A Study in New England History — 1820-1900. B Edward Chase Kirkland. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1948. 2 oh., pp. xvi + 528 and ix + 499, 812.50.

British Publications: Conurbation, A Planning Survey of Birmingham and the Black Country. By the West Midland Group on Post-War Reconstruction and banning. The Architectural Press, Landon, 1948. 288 pages. 30 shillings.

The Planner's Notebook. B H. Myles Wright. The Architectural Tress, London. 1948. 390 pp. 30 shillings.     

REVIEWS

From the Review Editors

Ethics and Theory for Practitioners (Paired Review)

Everyday Ethics for Practicing Planners Carol D. Barrett. American Institute of Certified Planners, Washington, DC, 2001. 246 pages. $29.95 (paperback).

Planning Theory for Practitioners Michael P. Brooks. APA Planners Press, Chicago, IL, 2002. 217 pages. $39.95 (paperback).

Everyday Ethics for Practicing Planners Carol D. Barrett. American Institute of Certified Planners, Washington, DC, 2001. 246 pages. $29.95 (paperback).

Planning Theory for Practitioners Michael P. Brooks. APA Planners Press, Chicago, IL, 2002. 217 pages. $39.95 (paperback).

The Environmental Case: Translating Values into Policy Judith A. Layzer. CQ Press, Washington, DC, 2002. 372 pages. $29.95 (paperback).

Environmental Choices: Policy Responses to Green Demands Lawrence S. Rothenberg. CQ Press, Washington, DC, 2002. 281 pages. $29.95 (paperback).

Revitalising Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods: An Assisted Self-Help Approach Colin C. Williams and John Windebank. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Aldershot, UK, 2001. 212 pages. $69.95.

Concept Marketing for Communities: Capitalizing on Underutilized Resources to Generate Growth and Development Rhonda Phillips. Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2002. 184 pages. $64.95.

Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon Lynne Sagalyn. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001. 620 pages. $59.95.

Cities in Full Steve Belmont. APA Planners Press, Chicago, 2002. 514 pages. $47.

Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design Kenneth Kolson. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002. 236 pages. $34.95.

Land Development Calculations: Interactive Tools and Techniques for Site Planning Analysis and Design Walter M. Hosack. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2001. 662 pages plus CD-ROM. $125.

Breaking Gridlock: Moving Toward Transportation that Works Jim Motavalli. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 2001. 268 pages. $23.

New Departures: Rethinking Rail Passenger Policy in the Twenty-First Century Anthony Perl. The University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 2002. 334 pages. $29.95.

A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio Charles Cole. Ohio State University Press, Columbus, 2001. 292 pages. $45.

Columbus, Ohio: A Personal Geography Henry Hunker. Ohio University Press, Columbus, 2000. 220 pages. $35.

John Nolen and Mariemont: Building a New Town in Ohio Millard F. Rogers, Jr. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2001. 261 pages. $45.

The City as Subject: Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka Jeffrey E. Hanes. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. 348 pages. $45.

Planning for Crime Prevention: A Transatlantic Perspective Richard H. Schneider and Ted Kitchen. Routledge, London and New York, 2001. 331 pages. $100, $39.95 (paperback).

National-Level Planning in Democratic Countries: An International Comparison of City and Regional Policy-Making Rachelle Alterman, editor. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, UK, 2001. 288 pages. $27.95 (paperback).

Local Policy for Housing Development: European Experiences Roelof Verhage. Ashgate, Hampshire, UK, 2002. 304 pages. $79.95.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Regulating Sex Businesses Eric D. Kelly and Connie Cooper, American Planning Association, Chicago, 2001. 169 pages. $34 (paperback).

Sex and the City: Geography of Prostitution in the Urban West Philip Hubbard. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, 1999. 264 pages. $74.95.

After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, editors. Routledge Press, New York and London, 2002. 236 pages. $25.

GIS for Group Decision Making: Towards a Participatory Geographic Information Science Piotr Jankowski and Timothy Nyerges. Taylor & Francis, London and New York, 2001. 273 pages. $60.

Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth Gerrit J. Knaap, editor. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2001. 384 pages. $20 (paperback).

Landscape Modeling: Digital Techniques for Landscape Visualization Stephen Ervin and Hope Hasbrouck. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002. 290 pages plus CD-ROM. $59.95.     

Report of the Committee on Education and Personnel Standards

Building THE Future City. Edited by Robert B. Mitchell. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 242, November, 1945. Philadelphia, the Academy 1945, $2.00.

Road To Reaction, by Herman Finer. Boston: Little, Brown &; Co., 1945. PP. xii, 228, $2.00.

Freedom Under Planning, by Barbara Wootton. Chapel Hill — University of North Carolina Press, 1945. Pp. 180, $2.00.

A Plan For The Business Area City Of White Plains, New York: A Report To The Post-War Planning Commission, by Arthur C. Holden. Holden, McLaughlin &; Associates, New York, 1945.     

Some Aspects of the Problem of Nonconforming uses

CITY PLANNING: HOUSING: VOLUME III. A Graphic Review of Civic Art, 1922-1937. By Werner Hegemann. Edited by William R. Forster and Robert C. Weinberg; foreword by Sir Raymond Unwin. New York, Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1938. 162 pages. Illus., maps, plans. 161/2 × 12 inches. Price $13.75.

THE CULTURE OF CITIES. By Lewis Mumford. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1938. 586 pages. Illus. 91/2 × 6 inches. Price $5.00.

THE MASTER PLAN. With a Discussion of the Theory of Community Land Planning Legislation. By Edward M. Bassett. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 1938. 151 pages. Price 82.00.

THE NEX PLAY AREAS. Their Design and Equipment. Edited for National Recreation Association by George D. Butler. New York, A. S. Barnes and Co., 1938. 242 pages. Illus., plans, diagrs., cross sections, sketches, tables. Price $3.00.

PLANNING PROFITABLE NEIGHBORHOODS. By U. P. Federal Housing Administration. Washington, Govt. Printing Office, 1938. 35 pages. Illus., plans. (Technical Bulletin no. 7.) Price 20 cents.

CHICAGO RECREATION SURVEY. VOLUME I, PUBLIC RECREATION; VOLUME II, COMMERCIAL RECREATION. Report on a project sponsored jointly by the Chicago Recreation Commission and Northwestern University. Supervised by Arthur J. Todd, Chairman, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northwestern University, in collaboration with William F. Byron, Chairman, Division of Social Work, Northwestern University. Mr. Howard Vierow served as Director for the Study.

HOUSING AND RECREATION. Paper read by Commissioner Robert Moses at a meeting on Housing and Recreation, New Pork City, Nov. 22, 1939. New York, 1950. 40 pages. Illus., maps. 8 × 121/2 inches. (Paper cover.)     

Dutch Green Planning More Reality than Fiction

Atlanta: Race, Class and Urban Expansion Larry Keating. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2001. 256 pages. $69.50, $22.95 (paperback).

Race, Neighborhoods, and Community Power: Buffalo Politics, 1934–1997 Neil Kraus. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000. 294 pages. $59.50, $19.19 (paperback).

Urban Inequality: Evidence from Four Cities Alice O'Connor, Chris Tilly, and Lawrence D. Bobo, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2001. 559 pages. $36.

The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 461 pages. $39.95.

Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles Lawrence D. Bobo, Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson, Jr., and Abel Valenzuela, Jr., editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 611 pages. $39.95.

Detroit Divided Reynolds Farley, Sheldon Danziger, and Harry J. Holzer. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 309 pages. $27.95.

The Atlanta Paradox David L. Sjoquist, editor. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 300 pages. $27.95.

Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs: Centuries of Change Craig E. Colten, editor. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, 2000. 265 pages. $49, $19.95 (paperback).

Color and Money: Politics and Prospects for Community Reinvestment in Urban America Gregory D. Squires and Sally O'Connor. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2001. 202 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. North Point Press, New York, 2000. 290 pages. $30, $18 (paperback).

How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken Alex Marshall. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2000. 243 pages. $24.95 (paperback).

Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen. Basic Books, New York, 2000. 298 pages. $27.50.

Travel by Design: The Influence of Urban Form on Travel Marlon Boarnet and Randall Crane. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. 224 pages. $60.

SafeScape: Creating Safer, More Livable Communities through Planning and Design Al Zelinka and Dean Brennan. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 2001. 285 pages. $75.

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality Benjamin I. Page and James Roy Simmons. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000. 409 pages. $29.

Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformation in Environmental Policy Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 323 pages. $25 (paperback).

Constructing Sustainable Development Neil E. Harrison. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000. 174 pages. $54.50, $17.95 (paperback).

Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000. 234 pages. $65.50, $21.95 (paperback).

Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI, 2000. 244 pages. $35, $17 (paperback).

Captives of the Cold War Economy: The Struggle for Defense Conversion in American Communities John J. Accordino. Praeger, Westport, CT, 2000. 221 pages. $68.

Consensus Planning: The Relevance of Communicative Planning Theory in Dutch Infrastructure Development Johan Woltjer. Ashgate Press, Aldershot, UK, 2000. 294 pages. $74.95.

Urban Planning in a Changing World: The Twentieth Century Experience Robert Freestone, editor. E &; FN Spon, New York, 2000. 293 pages. $74.99.

The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples Charles T. Goodsell. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2001. 240 pages. $35.

Urban Planning, Housing and Spatial Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Nature, Impact and Development Implications of Exogenous Forces Ambe J. Njoh. Ashgate, Brookfield, VT, 1999. 270 pages. $69.95.

Neighborhood Poverty, Volume I: Context and Consequences for Children Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, and J. Lawrence Abner, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 334 pages. $16.95 (paperback).

Neighborhood Poverty, Volume II: Policy Implications in Studying Neighborhoods Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, and J. Lawrence Aber, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2000. 238 pages. $13.95 (paperback).

Urban Planning and Development Applications of GIS Easa Said and Yupo Chan, editors. The American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, 2000. 283 pages. $39.

Homes and Hands: Community Land Trusts in Action Deborah Chasnoff and Helen S. Cohen, directors. Women's Educational Media, producer. New Day Films, 1995. 36 minutes. $125.     

Reviews

From the Review Editors

The “Green Book” Third Edition (Paired Review)

The Practice of Local Government Planning Charles Hoch, Linda Dalton, and Frank So, editors. International City/County Management Association, Municipal Management Series, Washington, DC, 2000 (3rd edition). 496 pages. $42.95.

The Practice of Local Government Planning Charles Hoch, Linda Dalton, and Frank So, editors. International City/County Management Association, Municipal Management Series, Washington, DC, 2000 (3rd edition). 496 pages. $42.95.

Collapse of the Middle Class The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy Theda Skocpol. W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2000. 207 pages. $25.95.

Women and Planning Gender, Identity, and Place: Understanding Feminist Geographies Linda McDowell. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1999. 290 pages. $49.95, $19.95 (paperback).

Gendering the City: Women, Boundaries, and Visions of Urban Life Kristine B. Miranne and Alma H. Young, editors. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2000. 229 pages. $65, $24.95 (paperback).

Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield, editors. Lynn Rienner Publishers, Boulder, CO, 1999. 305 pages. $48.95.

Social Capital Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy Ross Gittell and Avis Vidal. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998. 196 pages. $49.50, $18.95 (paperback).

Urban-suburban Interdependencies Rosaline Greenstein and Wim Wiewel, editors. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2000, 204 pages. $20 (paperback).

Confronting Suburban Decline: Strategic Planning for Metropolitan Revival William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2000, 384 pp. $35 (paperback)

Planning Communities for the 21st Century Growing Smart Project, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1999. 106 pages. $10 (paperback).

International Planning Issues The Social Sustainability of Cities: Diversity and Management of Change Mario Polese and Richard Stren, editors. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Buffalo, London, 2000, 334 pages. $24.95 (paperback).

Extending Themselves: User-initiated Transformations of Government-built Housing in Developing Countries Graham Tipple. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, U.K., 2000. 358 pages. $25.95 (paperback).

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Street Reclaiming Street Reclaiming: Creating Livable Streets and Vibrant Communities David Engwicht. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, BC, 1999. 208 pages. $18.95 (paperback).

Spaces Between Buildings The Spaces Between Buildings Larry R. Ford. The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000. 223 pages. $58, $25.95 (paperback).

Property and Values Property and Values: Alternatives to Public and Private Ownership Charles Geisler and Gail Daneker, editors. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2000. 336 pages. $35 (paperback).

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Briefly Noted The Globalization Syndrome: Transformation and Resistance James H. Mittelman. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2000. 272 pages. $49.50, $17.95 (paper).

City and Port: Urban Planning as a Cultural Venture in London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam Hans Meyer. International Books, Rotterdam, 1999. 424 pages, $65.

City Making: Building Communities without Building Walls Gerald E. Frug. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1999. 245 pages. $35.

Developing Affordable Housing, A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations Bennett L. Hecht. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999 (2nd edition). 690 pages. $95.

Federal Planning and Historic Places: The Section 106 Process Thomas F. King. Altamira Press, New York, 2000. 200 pages. $62, $23.95 (paperback).

Development as Freedom Amartya Sen. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1999. 366 pages $29.95, $15 (paperback).

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The Panel and the Dig [Video] Hartmut Gerdes (Producer). 1994. (Available from University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning, 2000 Center Street, Fourth Floor, Berkeley, CA 94704). 50 minutes. $150.     

Market Planning,Market Planners,and Planned Markets

Abstract

From the Review Editor

Planning Theory Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 1 Bruce Stiftel and Vanessa Watson, editors. Routledge, New York, 2004. 384 pages. $130.

Methods, Information Systems, and Mapping Beyond Benefit Cost Analysis: Accounting for Non-Market Values in Planning Evaluation Donald Miller and Domenico Patassini, editors. Ashgate, Hampshire, England, 2005. 338 pages. $99.95.

Planning and Urban Design Standards American Planning Association. John &; Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2006. 736 pages. $200.

Land Use, Zoning, Growth Management, Planning Law Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy: Development and Conservation at the Rural-Urban Fringe Robert J. Johnston and Stephen K. Swallow, editors. Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 2006. 288 pages. $70, $36.95 (paperback).

Community Development and Neighborhood Planning Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, editors. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2006. 416 pages. $34.95 (paperback).

New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures Emily Talen. Routledge, New York, 2005. 328 pages. $147, $44 (paperback).

Tomorrow's Cities, Tomorrow's Suburbs William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips. American Planning Association, Chicago, 2006. 354 pages. $55.95 (paperback).

Revitalizing the City: Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr., Krishna M. Akundi, and Alan F. J. Artibise, editors. M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 2005. 360 pages. $94.95, $39.95 (paperback).

Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City Bill Sanders. Routledge, New York, 2004. 256 pages. $122.50.

Transportation Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads Gabriel Roth, editor. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2006. 581 pages. $59.95, $29.95 (paperback).

Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources City and Environment Christopher G. Boone and Ali Modarres. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 2006. 240 pages. $76.50, $25.95 (paperback).

International Planning and Development German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy: Restructuring Eastern Germany Sebastian Lentz, editor. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007. 190 pages. $89.95.

Return to the Center: Culture, Public Space, and City-Building in a Global Era Lawrence A. Herzog. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2006. 299 pages. $55, $24.95 (paperback).

Planning and Urban History The New Suburban History Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue, editors. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2006. 300 pages. $60, $24 (paperback).     

LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

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From the Review Editors: The Globalization of Planning

Books: Planning Theory: Shadows of Power: An Allegory of Prudence in Land-Use Planning, Jean Hillier, Routledge, New York, 2002. 345 pages. $31.95.

Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice and Possibility for American Cities, Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 267 pages. $24.95.

International Planning and Development, Emerging Johannesburg: Perspectives on the Postapartheid City, Richard Tomlinson, Robert A. Beauregard, Lindsay Bremner, and Xolela Mangcu editors. Routledge, New York, 2003. 305 pages. $90, $26.95 (paperback).

European Spatial Planning, Andreas Faludi editor. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2002. 240 pages. $25.

Squatters as Developers?: Slum Demolition and Redevelopment in Mumbai, India, Vinit Mukhija. Ashgate, Hampshire, UK, 2003. 190 pages. $79.95.

America s New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?, Larry R. Ford., Johns Hopkins, University Press, Baltimore, 2003. 340 pages. $45.

Redefining Urban &; Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Bruce Katz and Robert E. Lang editors. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 305 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

Urban History: City: Urbanism and its End, Douglas W. Rae. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003. 516 pages. $30.

Housing and Community Development: Community Action for School Reform, Howell S. Baum. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2003. 297 pp. $68.50, $22.95 (paperback).

Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment, John Goering and Judith D. Feins editors. Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 422 pages. $34.50.

Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing, Stuart Meck, Rebecca Retzlaff, and Jim Schwab, American Planning Association, PAS Report Nos. 513/514, Chicago, 2003. 274 pages. $60 (paperback).

Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action, Mara S. Sidney., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2003. 186 pages. $16.95 (paperback).

Environmental Planning and Management: Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities, Edward P. Weber. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2003-333 pages. $67, $26.95(paperback).

Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, Robert T. Watson and A. H. Zakri, Co-chairs, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 245 pages. $25.

Public Health: Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity, Lawrence D. Frank, Peter O. Engelke, and Thomas L. Schmid. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 242 pages. $30 (paperback).

City of Las Vegas: The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas, Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis editors. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. 388 pages. $50, $19.95 (paperback).

Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century, Hal K. Rothman, Routledge, New York, 2002. 352 pages. $18.95 (paperback).

Property Rights: The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good, Eric T. Freyfogle, Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 336 pages. $25.

Briefly Noted: Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark, Jim Bouton, Bulldog Publishing, North Egremont, MA, 2003. 366 pages. $24.95.

Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm, Edwardo Lao Rhodes., Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2003. 263 pages. $39.95.

Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A., Colin Flint editor. Routledge, New York, 2003. 266 pages. $23.95.

A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy, Richard K. Green and Stephen Malpezzi., The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 226 pages. $26.50 (paperback).

State Growth Management and Open Space Preservation Policies, Robert Wilson and Robert Paterson editors. LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Public Research Project Report #143, 2002. 189 pages. $22.

Urbanism: Imported or Exported? Native Aspirations and Foreign Plans, Joe Nasr and Mercedes Volait editors. John Wiley &; Sons, Chichester, UK, 2003. 354 pages. $40 (paperback).

Books &; Other Materials Received

Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis, Robert E. Lang, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2003. 155 pages. $18.95 (paperback).     

Book Reviews and Lists

Building Lines and Reservations for Future Streets: Their Establishment and Protection. By Russell Van Nest Black, assisted by Mary Hedges Black. Cambridge, Harvard University Press,1935. 243 pages+ plates. Illus., plans, tables, diagrams. 10 × 7 1/4 inches. (Harvard City Planning Studies, Vol. VIII.) Price $3.50.

Financing Municipal Recreation. By Randolph O. Huus. Menasha, Wisconsin, George Banta Publishing Company,1935. 249 pages. Tables. 9 1/4 × 6 inches.

On Economic Planning: Papers Delivered at the Regional Study Conference of the International Industrial Relations Institute. New York, Nov. 25–27, 1934. New York, Covici, Friede, Inc.,1935. 275 pages Tables. 8 1/4 × 5 1/2 inches. Price $3.00.

Planning Problems of City. Region. State and Nation: Presented at the Twenty-sixth National Conference on City Planning, held jointly with the American Civic Association at Saint Louis, Mo., Oct. 22–24, 1934. Philadelphia, W. F. Fell Co., 1934. 151 pages. 9 1/4 × 6 1/4 inches. Price $3.00.

Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting Ok the Institute of Traffic Engineers. New Pork, [The Institute, 1934]. 128 pages. Tables; charts, diagrams. 11 × 8 1/2 inches. Lithoprinted. Price $2.50.

Slums and Blighted Areas in the United States. By Edith Elmer rood. Washington, Government Printing Office,1935. 126 pages + plates. Illus., maps, chart, tablee. 9 1/4 × 6 inches. (Federal Fmergency Administration of Public Works. Housing Division Bulletin No. 1.)

A Supplement to a Nation Plan: A Basis for Co-ordinated Physical Development of the United States of America. By Cyrus Kehr. [Washington], The Author, 1934. 41 pages + diagram. 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches. Price 75 cents.     

Plan Review

THE LOWER MANHATTAN PLAN Prepared for The New York City Planning Commission by: Wallace, McHarg, Roberts, and Todd Architects and Planners, Philadelphia Whittlesey, Conklin and Rossant Architects and Planners, New York Alan M. Voorhees & Associates, Inc. Transportation and Planning Consultants, Washington, D. C. The Commission, New York, 1966. Various pagings, appendices, n.p.

VENEZUELA: FROM DOCTRINE TO DIALOGUE by John Friedmann National Planning Series, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, New York, 1965. xxiii + 87 pages. $2.95.     

Urban Development the Pattern and the Background; Concluding Discussion

When We Build Again. A Bournville Village Trust Research Publication. George Allen &; Unwin, Ltd., London, 1941. Pp. xii (16), 138.

Report Relative to Postwar Reconstruction in the City, Prepared by Improvements and Town Planning Committee, published by The Corporation of London, 1944, pp. 66 plus maps and photographs.

The Economic Status of the New York Metropolitan Region in 1944, by The Regional Plan Association, Inc., New York, 1944, xx, 91 pp.     

Baghdad: Portrait of a City IIM Physical and Cultural Change

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MEASURING BENEFITS OF GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS edited by Robert Dorman The Brookings Institution, Washington, 1965. 414 pp. $2.50.

DEVELOPMENT PLANNING: LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE by Albert Waterston

SOCIAL PLANNING: A PRIMER FOR URBANISTS by Elizabeth Wood Community Education Program, Pratt Institute, New York, 1965. 91 pp. $3.00.

THE METROPOLIS: ITS PEOPLE, POLITICS, AND ECONOMIC LIFE by John C. Bollens and Henry J. Schmandt Harper and Row, New York, 1965. 643 pp. $8.95.

CITY AND SUBURB: THE ECONOMICS OF METROPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT Benjamin Chinitz, editor Modern Economic Issues. Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1965. viii + 181 pp. $1.95.

CULTURE AND COMMUNITY by Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball Harcourt, Brace, and World, New York, 1965. xvi + 349 pp. $4.50.

MAN IN METROPOLIS: A BOOK ABOUT THE PEOPLE AND PROSPECTS OF A METROPOLITAN REGION by Louis B. Schlivek Doubleday and Co., Garden City, New York, 1965. 432 pp., illus. $7.50.

REBUILDING CITIES by Percy Johnson-Marshall Aldine Publishing Co., Chicago, 1966. 374 pp., illus. $12.50.     

Some Observations on Industrial Decentralization Concluding: Discussion

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Bibliography of Planning, 1928-1935: A Supplement of Manual of Planning Information, 1928. By Katherine McNamara. Cambridge, Harvard University Press,1936. 232 pages. 10 × 7 inches. (Harvard City Planning Studies, vol. X) Price $3.50.

Regional Planning. By Karl B. Lohmann. Ann Arbor, Edwards Brothers, Inc.,1936. 143 pages. Illus. 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 inches. Lithoprinted. Paper Covers. Price $4.00

The Steadyflow Traffic System. By Fritz Malcher. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1935. 91 pages + plate. Diagrams. 10 × 7 inches. (Harvard City Planning Studies, Vol. IX.) Price $1.00.

The Growth and Distribution of Population. By S. Vere Pearson. New York, John Wiley &; sons, Inc., 1935. 448 pages. Illus., maps, tables. 6 1/4 ×     

Inducing the Residential Land Market to Grow Timber in an Antiquated Rural Subdivision

Land Use Planning: The Ballot Box Revolution Roger W. Caves. Sage Library of Social Research, Newbury Park, CA. 1992. 247 pp. $22.95 (paperback).

Geographic Information Systems: A Guide to the Technology John C. Antenucci, Kay Brown, Peter L. Croswell, Michael J. Kevany, and Hugh Archer. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991.301pp. $59.95.

Sources of Metropolitan Growth Edwin S. Mills and John F. McDonald, editors. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1992. 307 pp. $29.95.

Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World William R. Taylor, editor. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1991. 467 pp. $39.95.

Cities and Development in the Third World Robert B. Potter and Ademola T. Salau, editors. Mansell, London and New York, 1990. 200 pp.

Industrialization, Economic Development and the Regional Question in the Third World: From Import Substitution to Flexible Production Michael Storper. Pion, London, 1991. 149 pp. £25.00.

The Good Society Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1991.347 pp. $25.00.

Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980's Martha R. Burt. Russell Sage Foundation, The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1992. 267 pp. $29.95.

The Maze of Urban Housing Markets—Theory, Evidence, and Policy Jerome Rothenberg, George C. Galster, Richard V. Butler, and John Pitkin. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991. 549 pp. $62.95.

Housing Markets and Housing Institutions: An International Comparison Björn Hårsman and John M. Quigley, editors. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1991.338 pp. $79.95.

Tourism Planning: An Integrated and Sustainable Development Approach Edward Inskeep. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991. 508 pp. $49.95.

State of the World 1992 Worldwatch Institute, Lester R. Brown, editor. Norton, New York, 1992. 256 pp. $10.95 (paperback).

Rural Policies for the 1990s Cornelia B. Flora and James A. Christenson, editors. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1991. 361 pp. $58.00 (paperback) $24.95.

Atmospheric Ecology for Designers and Planners William P. Lowry, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, 1991. 435 pp. $51.95.

Planning Settlements Naturally Stephen Owen. Packard Publishing Ltd, Chichester, UK, 1991. 141 pp. £19.95.

Privatization and Its Alternatives William T. Gormley, Jr, editor. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. 342 pp. $40.00, $19.75 (paperback).