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Book Reviews

Book Review

Pages 512-537 | Published online: 26 Nov 2007
 

Abstract

Sustainable Communities Principles of Sustainable Development F. Douglas Muschett, editor. St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, FL, 1997. 172 pp. $49.95 (paperback).: Eco-City Dimensions: Healthy Communities, Healthy Planet Mark Roseland, editor. New Society Publishers, East Haven, CT, 1997. 183 pp. $39.95, $16.95 (paperback).: Economic Renewal Guide: A Collaborative Process for Sustainable Community Development Michael J. Kingsley. Rocky Mountain Institute, Snowmass, CO, 1997. 222 pp. $17.95 (spiral binding).: Ecology of Hope: Communities Collaborate for Sustainability Bernard, Ted, and Jora-Young. New Society Publishers, East Haven, CT, 1997. 212 pp. $39.95, $16.95 (paperback).

Urban Interpretations Third Places: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places Edward W. Soja. Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1996. 334 pp. $69.95, $20.95 (paperback).: Interpreting Environments: Tradition, Deconstruction, Hermeneutics Robert Mugerauer. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996. 186 pp. $35.00, $14.95 (paperback).: Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourse of American Cities Kevin McNamara. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA, 1996. 311 pp. $39.50.

Ethnicity in America Assimilation, American Style Peter D. Salins. Basic Books, New York, 1997.272 pp. $26.00.: Ethnic Los Angeles Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1996. 497 pp. $45.00, $25.00 (paperback).

Housing and Real Estate Transitions in Land and Housing: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Poland Ann Louise Strong, Thomas Reiner, and Janusz Szyrmer. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1996. 298 pp. $49.95.

Households and Housing: Choice and Outcomes in the Housing Market William A. V. Clark and Frans M. Dielman. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, NJ, 1996. 252 pp. $19.95 (paperback).

Our Town: Race, Housing, and the Soul of Suburbia David L. Kirp, John P. Dwyer, and Larry A. Rosenthal. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1995. 267 pp. $29.95.

Design and Urban Form Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities Michael Southworth and Eran Ben-Joseph. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997. 184 pp. $39.95.

New York 1960 Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. Monacelli Press, New York, 1995. 1,374 pp. $125.00.

Creating Defensible Space Oscar Newman. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1996. 134 pp. $5.00 (paperback).

Ecological Design Sim Van der Ryn and Stuart Cowan. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1995. 200 pp. $40.00, $19.95 (paperback).

Politics and Society Urban Regimes and Strategies: Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels Alex G. Papadopoulos. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1996. 290 pp. $23.00.

Rethinking Los Angeles Michael J. Dear, H. Eric Schockman, and Greg Hise, editors. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1996. 278 pp. $58, $26.95 (paperback).

Planning as Persuasive Storytelling: The Rhetorical Construction of Chicago 's Electric Future James A. Throgmorton. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1996.313 pp. $29.00 (paperback).

Boom, Bust and Echo David K. Foot with Daniel Stoffman. Macfarlane Walter and Ross, Toronto, 1996. 245 pp. $29.95.

A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan Confronts Deindustrialization Steven P. Dandaneau. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1996.298 pp. $59.95, $19.95 (paperback).

Planning and Its Subfields Community Impact Evaluation Nathaniel Lichfield. UCL Press, London, England, 1996. 354 pp. $95.00, $32.50 (paperback).

Intelligent GIS: Location Decisions and Strategic Planning Mark Birkin, Graham Clarke, Martin Clarke, and Alan Wilson. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1996. $39.95.

The Urban Transport Crisis in Europe and North America John Pucher and Christian Lefevre. Macmillan Press Ltd., London, 1996. 226 pp. $25.58 (paperback) Note: Not distributed in North America. Order directly by fax (011-44-1256-479-476) or email ([email protected]), attn: Charlotte Shepheard.

Land Use in America Henry L. Diamond and Patrick F. Noonan, editors. Island Press, Washington, DC, and Covelo, CA, 1996. 351 pp. $26.95.

The Wired Neighborhood Stephen Doheny-Farina. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1996. 224 pp. $25.00.

Community Development and Planning The Organization of Hope: Communities Planning Themselves Howell S. Baum. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1997. 318 pages. $75.50, $25.95 (paperback).

Building a Community-Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Cooperative Experience Paul Wilkinson and Jack Quarter. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1996. 186 pp. $45.00, $16.95 (paperback).

Briefly Noted The New Urbanism: Hope or Hype for American Communities? William Fulton. The Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 1996. 32 pp. $14.00.

Commuting in America II—The Second National Report on Commuting Patterns and Trends Alan E. Pisarski. ENO Transportation Foundation, Lansdowne, VA, 1996. 112 pp.

The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem Deborah Meier. Beacon Press, Boston. 190 pp. $20.00.

Practicing Responsible Tourism: International Case Studies in Tourism Planning, Policy and Development Lynn C. Harrison and Winston Husbands, eds. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1996. 590 pp. $54.95.

The Search Conference: A Powerful Method for Planning Organizational Change and Community Action Merrelyn Emery and Ronald E. Purser. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 1996. 318 pp. $29.95.

Ecological Design and Planning George F. Thompson and Frederick R. Steiner, eds. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1997. 332 pp. $39.95.

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