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Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEWS

Pages 117-133 | Published online: 26 Nov 2007
 

Abstract

Citizen Governance Leading American Communities into the 21st Century Richard C. Box. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998. 176 pp. $4.00, $21.95 (paperback).

Government Is Us: Public Administration in an Anti-Government Era Cheryl Simrell King and Camilla Stivers, editors. Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998. 213 pp. $44.00, $23.95 (paperback).

The City in Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History Richard Lehan. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998. 330 pp. $17.95 (paperback).

October Cities: The Redevelopment of Urban Literature Carlo Rotella. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998. 358 pp. $50.00, $18.95 (paperback).

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed James C. Scott. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1998. xiv + 445 pp. $35.00.

Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use Raymond J. Burby and Peter J. May, with Philip R. Burke, Linda C. Dalton, Steven P. French, and Edward J. Kaiser. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997. 192 pp. $32.50.

Design of Urban Space: An Inquiry into a Socio-Spatial Process Ali Madanipour. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, England, 1996. 254 pp. $46.95 (paperback).

Representation of Places: Reality and Realism in City Design Peter Bosselmann. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998. 228 pp. $35.00.

Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie. Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1997. 261 pp. $25.00.

Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth-Century Urbanism Zane L. Miller and Bruce Tucker. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998. 227 pp. $32.00, $15.95 (paperback)

Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History Leonie Sandercock, editor. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 1998. 282 pp. $34.00, $15.95 (paperback).

The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood David Simon and Edward Burns. Broadway Books, New York, 1997. 543 pp. $27.50, $15.00 (paperback).

The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy Alejandro Portes, Carlos Dore-Cabral, and Patricia Landolt, editors. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1997. 296 pp. $48.50, $17.95 (paperback).

Jobs & Economic Development: Strategies and Practice Robert P. Giloth, editor. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1998. 262 pp. $51.00, $24.95 (paperback).

Texas Land Ethics Pete A.Y. Gunter and Max Oelschlaeger. University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1997. 176 pp. $18.95 (paperback).

Affordable Housing and Urban Redevelopment in the United States: Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, Volume 46 Willem Van Vliet–, editor. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997. 288 pp. $62.00, $27.50 (paperback).

Insurance Redlining: Disinvestment, Reinvestment and the Evolving Role of Financial Institutions Gregory D. Squires, editor. The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1997. 280 pp. $67.50, $24.95 (paperback).

Segregation in Federally Subsidized Low-Income Housing in the United States Modibo Coulibaly, Rodney D. Green, and David M. James. Praeger, Westport, CT, 1998. 168 pp. $65.00.

The Encyclopedia of Housing Willem Van Vliet–, editor. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 1998. xxiv+712 pp. $169.95.

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