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Book Reviews

Reviews

Pages 469-481 | Published online: 22 Jun 2010
 

Abstract

Four Reviews on Poverty and Inequality Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005. 300 pages. $24.95, $16.95 (paperback).

The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality Thomas M. Shapiro. Oxford University Press, New York, 2005. 256 pages. $19.95 (paperback).

The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Maris A. Vinovskis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005. 200 pages. $29.

Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present Ellen Reese. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2005. 372 pages. $50, $19.95 (paperback).

Methods, Information Systems, and Mapping Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Practices III M. Joseph Sirgy, Rhonda Phillips, and Don R. Rahtz, editors. International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, Blacksburg, VA, 2007. 194 pages. $25, $10 (PDF).

Demographic and Spatial Analysis Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America Dowell Myers. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2007. 368 pages. $35.

Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities Robert E. Lang and Jennifer B. LeFurgy. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2007. 212 pages. $26.95.

American Community Survey Data for Community Planning Cynthia M. Taeuber. Trafford Publishing, Victoria, BC, 2006. 185 pages. $39.95 (paperback).

Community Development and Neighborhood Planning On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina Ronald J. Daniels, Donald F. Kettl, and Howard Kunreuther, editors. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2006. 304 pages. $27.50 (paperback).

Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice Jill Grant. Routledge, New York, 2005. 296 pages. $138.50, $52.50 (paperback).

Transportation The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment William L. Garrison and David M. Levinson. Oxford University Press, New York, 2006. 472 pages. $45 (paperback).

International Planning and Development Private Cities: Global and Local Perspectives Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, and Klaus Frantz, editors. Routledge, London, 2006. 256 pages. $145.

Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman, editors. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2006. 248 pages. $75, $26.95 (paperback).

Planning and Urban History Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, editors.W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2007. 304 pages. $50.

New York 2000: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Bicentennial and the Millennium Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove. The Monacelli Press, New York, 2006. 1,520 pages. $100.

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