Book Reviews and Lists

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Watling: A Survey of Social Life on a New Housing Estate. By Ruth Durant. London, P. S. King & Son Ltd., 1939. 128 pages. Map (folded), tables, diagr. Price 7s; 6d.

Housing for Defense: A Review of the Role of Housing in Relation to America's Defense and a Program for Action. Factual findings by Miles L. Colean and the program for action by the Housing Committee of The Twentieth Century Fund. New Pork, Twentieth Century Fund, 1940. 198 pages. Map, tables, charts. Price $1.50.

Conservation and Citizenship. By George T. Renner and William H. Bartley. Boston, D. C. Beath & Co., 1940. 367 pages. Price $1.60.

Burchard. John. and Others. A method for analyzing the economic distribution of shelter; a working chart for determining the percentage of families able to afford shelter at a given cost and subject to given charges. By John Burchard with the help of William E. Haible, Margaret Hopkins, Davis Mayer, and Harry Weese. Cambridge, Albert Farwell Bemis Foundation (M.I.T.), June 1940. 25p. charts (part folded), tables.

California. State Planning Board. Surveys and maps in California. Sacramento, The Board, 1940. 124p. maps, tables. Lithoprinted.

Dill, Malcolm H. Planning for the future of the Harrisburg area; report of the Harris-burg area regional planning committee of the Municipal League of Harrisburg, Pa. Harrisburg, Municipal League, 1939-40. 125p. illus., maps (folded), diagrs. Price $1.09.

Jones, Arthur Hosking. Cheltenham township; a sociological analysis of a residential suburb. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. 173p. map, tables. Price $2.00.

Lyon, Leverett S., and Victor Abramson. Government and economic life. Washington, The Brookings Institution, 1940. 66p. (Pamphlet no. 22.)

Sweet, A. Jarvis. Cleveland regional geodetic survey, Cleveland, Ohio; report number one, 1939. Work Projects Administration project no. 17876. [Cleveland], Official Mapping and Surveys Committee, Regional Association of Cleveland, Dec. 1939. 70p. illus., figures. Mimeographed.

Thomson, T. F. A short guide to planning procedure (intended primarily for the professional representatives of land and property owners, and local government officials). Introduction by Professor Patrick Abercrombie. London, The Estates Gazette, Ltd., 1939. 134p.

Westchester County, N. Y. Park Commission. The needs of Westchester County parkways from a through traffic standpoint, presented by Westchester County. [White Plains, N.T.], The Commission, Nov. 3, 1940. [17]p. maps, tables. Planographed.

U.S. Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Waverly; a study in neighborhood conservation. Washington, The Board, 1940. 97p. illus., drawings, tables. To be reviewed.

U.S. National Resources Planning Board. The structure of the American economy; part II, toward full use of resources. A symposium by Gardiner C. Means, D. E. Montgomery, J. Y. Clark, Alvin H. Hansen, Mordecai Ezekiel. Washington, Govt. Printing Office, June 1940. 48p. Price 15 cents.

U.S. Works Progress Administration. Index of research projects; Vol. III. (Entries 3803-5137. Summaries of reports on CWA, ERA and WPA research projects received in Washington between January 1938 and April 1939.) [Washington, The Administration, 1939.] 243p.