Book reviews

Competitive Cities: Succeeding in the Global Economy. H. Duffy. London, E. & F. N. Spon, 1995, 195 pp., £24.99 hb, ISBN 0–419–1984–7

Mapping the Subject: Geographies of Cultural Transformation. S. Pile and N. Thrift (Eds). London: Routledge, 512 pp., £15.99, ISBN 0–415–10226‐X

Transport in Transition: Aspects of British and European Experience. J. McConville & J. Sheldrake (Eds), Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 203 pp., £35.00, hb, ISBN 1–89528–664–9

Territorial Competition in an Integrating Europe. P. Cheshire & I. Gordon (Eds). Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 317 pp., £40.00 hb, ISBN 1–85972–112–5

Industrial Location: Principles, Practice and Policy. J. W. Harrington & B. Warf. London, Routledge, 1995, 304 pp., £17.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–11951–0

Partnership Agencies in British Urban Policy. N. Bailey, with A. Berker & K. MacDonald. London, 1995, 256 pp., £12.95 pb, ISBN 1–85728–070–9

Housing and Family Wealth: Comparative International Perspectives. R. Forrest & A. Murie (Eds). London, Routledge, 1995, 272 pp., £45.00 hb, ISBN 0–415–07194–1     

Book reviews

Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City. Jane M. Jacobs. London and New York, Routledge, 1996, 193 pp., £12.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–12007–1

Land for Industrial Development. David Adams, Lynne Russell & Clare Taylor‐Russell. London, E.&F.N. Spon, 1994, 289 pp., £37.50 hb, ISBN 0–419–19180–1

Urban Policy in Practice. Tim Blackman. London, Routledge, 1994, 320 pp., £14.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–09300–7

Planning, the Market and Private House‐building. G. Bramley, W. Bartlett & C. Lambert London, UCL Press, 1995, 192 pp., £11.95 pb, ISBN 1–85728–163–2

Retail Planning Policies in Western Europe. Ross Davies. London, Routledge, 1995, 304 pp., £45.00 hb, ISBN 0–415–10997–3

Transport Concepts in European Cities. Tim Pharoah & Dieter Apel. Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 291 pp., £42.50 hb, ISBN 1–859–72094–3

Building a New Heritage: Tourism, Culture and Identity in the New Europe. G.J. Ashworth & P.J. Larkham (Eds). London, Routledge, 1994, 278 pp., hb (out of print), ISBN 0–415–07931–4

Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function. Michael Batty & Paul Longley. London, Academic Press, 1994, 394 pp., £38.00 hb, ISBN 0–124–55570–5     

Book reviews

Urban Planning in Europe: International Competition, National Systems and Planning Projects. Peter Newman & Andy Thornley. London, Routledge 1996, 304pp., £13.99 pb, ISBN 0–415–11179‐X

Regional Development Strategies: A European Perspective. Jeremy Alden & Philip Boland (Eds.). London, RSA/Jessica Kingsley, 1996, 324 pp., £17.95 pb, ISBN 1–85302–356–6

Retailing, Consumption and Capital: Towards the New Retail Geography. Neil Wrigley & Michelle Lowe (Eds). Harlow, Longman, 1996, 352 pp., £17.99 pb, ISBN 0–582–22824–7

The Dependent City Revisited: The Political Economy of Urban Development and Social Policy. Paul Kantor. Westview Press, 1995, 265 pp.

Urban Land and Property Markets in France. Acosta Rodrigo & Renard Vincent. London, UCL Press, 1993, 166 pp., £45.00 hb, ISBN 1–85728–050–4

Experts and Environmental Planning. Bob Evans. Avebury, Aldershot, 1995, 154pp., £32.50, ISBN 1–85628–673–8

The Industrial Enterprise and its Environmental Spatial Perspectives. S. Conti, E.J. Malecki & P. Oinas (Eds). Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, £35.00, ISBN 1–85628–876–5

Negotiating Development: Rationales and Practice for Development Obligations and Planning Gain. Patsy Healey, Michael Purdue & Frank Ennis. London, E & FN Span, 1995, xxi + 278 pages £29.95hb, ISBN 0–419–19410‐X     

Book reviews

Urban Policy Evaluation: Challenge and Change. R. Hambleton & H. Thomas (Eds). Liverpool, Paul Chapman, 1995, 258 pp., £17.95 ISBN 1–85396–271–6

Environmental Strategy and Sustainable Development. R. Welford. Routledge, London, 1995, 217 pp, £12.99, ISBN 0–415–10552–8

Urban Agriculture in Zimbabwe. B. Mbiba. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, VT, 1995, £35.00, ISBN 185628 857 9

Housing Women. Rose Gilroy & Roberta Woods (Eds.). London, Routledge, 1994, 304 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0–415–09463–1

Census User's Handbook. S. Openshaw (Ed.). Longmans, 1995, 454 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0–470234–814

Reconstituting Rurality. J. Murdoch & T. Marsden. London, UCL Press, 1994, 272 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1–85728–041–5

Development and Administration of Prague. M. Barlow, P. Dostal, & M. Hampl (Eds). Amsterdam, Instituut voor Sociale Geographie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1994, 170 pp., 35DG, ISBN 9–06993–086‐Z

Local Development, Restructuring, Locality and Local Initiative in Portugal. S. Syrett. Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 371 pp., £40.00, ISBN 1 85628 484 0     

Book reviews

Managing Cities. The New Urban Context. P. Healey, S. Cameron, S. Davoudi, S. Graham & A. Madani‐Pour (Eds) Chichester, John Wiley and Sons, 1995, £14.95 pb, ISBN 0–471–95533–7

Industrial Property: Policy and Economic Development. Rick Ball & Andy Pratt (Eds). London, Routledge, 1994, £45.00 hb, ISBN 0–415–09152–7

Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development. Dharam P. Ghai & Jessica M. Vivian (Eds). London and New York, Routledge, 1995 (pb), 347 pp., ISBN 0–415–12703–3

Services and Space: Key Aspects of Urban and Regional Development. N. Marshall & P. Wood. Essex, Longman Scientific and Technical, 1995, 294 pp., £17.99 pb, ISBN 0–582–25162–1

Servicing The Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain. Nicky Gregson & Michelle Lowe. Routledge, 1994, vii + 327 pp., £13.99 pb, ISBN 0–419–08531–4

Urban Development Planning: Lessons for the Economic Reconstruction of South Africa's Cities. Richard Tomlinson. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1994, 277 pp., £14.95 pb, ISBN 1–868–14258–2     

Book reviews

Theories of Urban Politics. David Judge, Gerry Stoker & Harold Wolman (Eds). London, Sage, 1995, 310 pp. £11.99 pb. ISBN: 0 8039 8865 6

The Faces of Homelessness in London. Jeanne Moore, David Canter, Des Stockley & Madeline Drake. Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1995, 339 pp, £30.00. ISBN: 1 85521 252 8

Housing, ‘Race’, Social Policy and Empowerment. Malcolm Harrison. Aldershot, Avebury, 1995, 176 pp., £32.50. ISBN: 1 85628 860 9

Empowerment and Estate Regeneration: A Critical Review. Murray Stewart & Marilyn Taylor. Bristol, Policy Press 1995, 90 pp., £11.95. ISBN: 1 86134 001 X

Old and Homeless—Double Jeopardy. Diane Wiatt Rich, Thomas Rich & L. C. Mullins (Eds). Connecticut, Auburn House, 1995, 142 pp., £39.95. ISBN 0 86569 246 7

Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns. Margaret Crawford. London and New York, Verso, 1995, 248 pp., £44.95. ISBN: 0 86091 4216     

Book reviews

Town Planning in Britain Since 1900: The Rise and Fall of the Planning Ideal. Gordon Cherry (deceased). Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, 260 pp., £13.99, ISBN 0–631–1994–2 (pbk).

Multinationals and European Integration—Trade, Investment and Regional Development. Nicholas A. Phelps. London: Jessica Kingsley, 1997, 181 pp., £18.95, ISBN 1–85302–3531 (pbk).

The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City. Neil Smith. London: Routledge, 1996, 262 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0–415–13254–1 (hbk), £14.99, ISBN 0–415–13255‐X (pbk).

GIS and Organizations: How Effective are GIS in Practice? Heather Campbell & Ian Masser. London: Taylor and Francis, 1995, 224 pp., £19.95, ISBN 0–7484–0205–5.

Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies. Patsy Healey. London: Macmillan, 1997, 338 pp., ISBN 0–333–49573‐X (hbk), £12.99, ISBN 0–333–49574–8 (pbk).

Explorations in Planning Theory. S.J. Mandelbaum, L. Mazza & R. Burchell (Eds). New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1996, 543 pp., $21.95, ISBN 0–88285–154–3.     

Book reviews

Housing in Scotland. Hector Currie & Alan Murie (Eds). Chartered Institute of Housing. Policy and Practice Series, £15.00 paperback. ISBN 0 901607 91 6.

The Home: Words, Interpretations, Meanings and Environments. D. Benjamin (Ed.). Avebury, Aldershot 1995, £37.00 hardback. ISBN 1 856628 8889.

Rethinking Local Democracy. Desmond King & Gerry Stoker (Eds). Macmillan, London, 1996, 233 pp, £13.95, paperback. ISBN 8039 8864 8.

An Introduction to Social Housing. Paul Reeves. Arnold, London, 1996, 273 pp, £13.99, paperback. ISBN 0 340 661976.

Representing the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty‐First Century Metropolis. Anthony D. King (Ed.). Macmillan Press, London, 1996, £13.99, paperback. ISBN 0 333601920.

Homeless. Gerald Daly. Routledge, London, 1996, 293 pp., £14.95. ISBN 0415 12029 2.

The Environmental Impact of Land and Property Management. Yvonne Rydin (Ed.). Wiley, Chichester, 1996, 196 pp., £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0 471966126.

Conservation and the City. Peter Larkham. Routledge, London, 1996, 329 pp., £17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 415 079478.     

Book reviews

Readings in Planning Theory. Scott Campbell & Susan Fainstein (Eds). Oxford, Blackwell, 1996, £16.99 pb, ISBN 1–55786–613–9

Re‐Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty‐First Century Metropolis. Anthony D. King (Ed.). Basingstoke and London, Macmillan, 1996, 282 pp., ISBN 0–333–60192–0

Controlling Development: Certainty and Discretion in Europe, the USA and Hong Kong. Philip Booth. London, UCL Press, 1996, 168 pp., £14.95, ISBN 1–85728–585–9

Conservation and the City. Peter J. Larkham. London, Routledge, 1996, 329 pp., £17.99, ISBN 0–415–07948–9 (pbk)

Geographic Information Systems and their Socioeconomic Applications 2nd edition. David Martin. London, Routledge, 1996, 210 pp., £14.95, ISBN 0–415–12572–3

Space is the Machine: A Configurational Theory of Architecture. Bill Hillier. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, xii + 463 pp., £45.00, ISBN 0–521–56039 (hbk)     

Book reviews

The People's Home? Social Rented Housing in Europe and America. Michael Harloe. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1995, £16.99 paperback. ISBN 0 631 18642 5.

Homeless Single Men: Roads to Resettlement? Jill Vincent, Alan Deacon & Robert Walker. Avebury, Aldershot, 1995, 197 pp, £32.50. ISBN 1 85972 0870.

Spatial Practices: Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory. Helen Liggett & David Perry (Eds). Sage, Thousand Oaks, 1995, 304 pp, £18.95 paperback. ISBN 8039 5114 0.

House Property and Inheritance in the UK. A. E. Holmans & M. Frosztega. Department of the Environment, HMSO, London, 1994, £25.00. ISBN 01175 29133.

Common Interest Communities — Private Governments and the Public Interest. S. Barton & C. Silverman (Eds). University of California, Institute of Local Governmental Studies Press, $23.95. ISBN 0 87772 3591.

Leaving Home. Gill Jones. London, Open University Press, 1995, 178 pp, £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 33519 284X.     

Book reviews

Housing Finance in the 1990s. C. Whitehead & B. Turner (Eds)National Swedish Institute for Building Research, Gavle, 1993, 330 pp., ISBN 91–7111–068–2

Markets and Managers—New Issues in the Delivery of Welfare. Peter Taylor Gooby & Robyn Lawson (Eds) Buckingham, Open University Press, 1993, 190 pp., £37.50 hardback, £12.99 paperback

Housing Finance and Subsidies in Britain. Duncan Maclennan & Kenneth Gibb (Eds) Aldershot, Avebury, 1993, 218 pp., £35

The Estate Action Initiative: Council Housing Renewal, Management and Effectiveness. Ricardo Pinto Aldershot, Avebury, 1993, 286 pp., £35

Keeping to the Marketplace: the Evaluation of Canadian Housing Policy. John C. Bacher Montreal and Kingston, McGill‐Queens University Press, 1993, 327 pp., C$55.00, £42.45 UK

The Reform of Housing in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. B. Turner, J. Hegedüs & I. Tosics London, Routledge, 1992, 362 pp., £45 hardback

Neighbour Disputes: Responses by Social Landlords. Valerie Karn, Rachel Liskinn, David Hughes & John Cawley Coventry Institute of Housing, 1993, 158 pp.     

Book reviews

Success and Failure in Housing Provision. European Systems Compared. James Barlow & Simon Duncan. Oxford, New York & Tokyo, Pergamon, 1994, 170 pp., £12.99 paperback. ISBN 0 080 41029 4

Housing Women. R. Gilroy & R. Woods. London, Routledge, 1994, £40.00 hardback, £14.99 paperback. ISBN 0415 09462 3/09463 1

The Gypsy and the State: The Ethnic Cleansing of British Society. Derek Hawes & Barbara Perez. Bristol, School for Advanced Urban Studies, 1995, 159 pp., £12.95. ISBN 1 873575 769

Urban Land and Property Markets The Netherlands. D. B. Needham, B. Kruijt & P. Koenders. 1993, 228 pp., £38

Germany. H. Dietrich, E. Dransfeld & W. Voß. 1993, 275 pp., £40

France. R. Acosta & V. Renard. 1993, 166 pp., £40

The UK. R. H. Williams & B. Wood. London, UCL Press, 1994, 275 pp., £40

Mobilizing the Community: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City (Urban Affairs Annual Review 41). Robert Fisher & Joseph Kling (Eds). Newbury Park, Sage, xxiii & 338 pp., £19.95, paperback. ISBN 0 803942

International Counterurbanization. British Migrants in Rural France. Henry Buller & Keith Hoggart. Aldershot, Avebury, 1994, £30. ISBN 1 85628 508 1     

Book reviews

A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property and the Emergence of New Market Economies. Gregory S. Alexander & Grazyna Skapska (Eds). London, Routledge, 1994, xxiii + 336 pp., ISBN 0415906970 (HB), 0415906989 (PB)

From Public Housing to the Social Market. Rental Policy Strategies in Comparative Perspective. Jim Kemeny. London and New York, Routledge, 1995, 194 pp., £40.00

European Housing Finance. Single Market or Mosaic?. Will Bartlett & Glen Bramley (Eds). Oxford, The Alden Press, School for Advanced Urban Studies (SAUS) publication 12 (Bristol) 1994, 282 pp., £19.95, paperback, ISBN 1 873575 63 7

Housing, Financial Markets and the Wider Economy. David Miles. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 228 pp., £35.00

Women in the Housing Service. Marion Brion. London, Routledge, 1994, ISBN 0 415 08094 £45.00 Hardback

Slippery Customers: Estate Agents, The Public and Regulation. Michael Clarke, David Smith & Michael McConville. London, Blackstone Press, 1994, 295 pp., £19.95     

Book reviews

Cities, Economic Competition and Urban Policy. N. Oatley (Ed.). London, Sage, 1998, 256 pp., £15.99 Pb., ISBN 1–85396–325–9.

Changing Cape Town. Urban Dynamics, Policy and Planning During the Political Transition in South Africa. Grant Saff. Lanham, University Press of America, 1998, 259 pp. $34.50 Pb., ISBN 0–7618–1199–0.

Safer City Centres: Reviving the Public Realm. Taner Oc & Steven Tiesdell (Eds). London, Sage, 1997, 272 pp., £19.99, ISBN 1 85396 316 X.     

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring the lands,waters and living resources of the United States

Landscape Transformed

London, Academy Editions, 1996, 112 pp., no price given, ISBN 1–85490–452–3

Sculpting with the Environment: a natural dialogue

Baile Oakes (Ed.)

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995, ISBN 0–442–01642–5, 252 pp., £45.00, hb.

After the Ruins: restoring the countryside of Northern France after the Great War

Hugh Clout

Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 1996, ISBN 0–85989–491–6,332 pp., £35.

Environmental Aesthetics: ideas, politics and planning

J. Douglas Porteous

London and New York, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0–415–13769–1, 20 pp., £15.99.

Countryside Survey 1990 Main Report

C.J. Barr, R.G.H. Bunce, R.T. Clarke, R.M. Fuller, M.T. Furse, M.K. Gillespie, G.B. Groom, C.J. Hallam, M. Hornung, D.C. Howard &; M.J. Ness

London, Department of the Environment, 1993, 174 pp., £12.00 (available from DoE Publications Sales Unit, Block 3, Spur 2, Government Buildings, Lime Grove, Eastcote, HA4 8SE)

World of Environmental Design, Volume 1: Urban Spaces I (Streets and Squares)

Francisco Asenio Cerver

Barcelona, Arco Editorial, 1995, 255 pp., US$75 (per volume) ISBN 84–8185–004–7 (complete work), ISBN 84–8185–005–5 (Volume 1)

’The Remains of Distant Times’: archaeology and the National Trust

David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway &; David Thackray (Eds)

Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Boydell Press, 1996, ISBN 0–85115–671–1, hb, 235 pp., £29.50

Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing 1815–1852

D. Schuyler

Baltimore, fohns Hopkins University Press, 1996, ISBN 0–8018–5229–3, $35.95     

Book reviews

Outward from Home—A Planner's Odyssey. Kenneth Watts. Lewes, East Sussex, The Book Guild, 1997, 171 pp., £16.95/hb, ISBN 1–85776–271–1.

Urban Planning Theory since 1945. Nigel Taylor. London, Sage, 1998, 190 pp., £13.99 pb, ISBN 0–7619–6093–7

Urban Regimes and Strategies. Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels. Alex G. Papadopoulos. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1996, 308 pp., £18.50, ISBN 0–226–64559–2     

Book Note

Landscape Construction Volume 2: roads, paving and drainage

C.A. Fortlage &; E.T. Phillips

Aldershot, Gower, 206 pp., £49.50 hb., ISBN 0–566–09042–2     

Book reviews

Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government. E. McKenzie London: Yale University Press, 1994, 237 pp., £25 cloth ISBN 0–300–05876–4

The Suburban Racial Dilemma. W. Dennis Keating Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, $49.95 cloth, ISBN 1566 3914 74, $22.95 paper, ISBN 1566 3914 82

Urban Process and Power. P. Ambrose London, Routledge, 1994, 240 pp., £40.00 hardback, ISBN 0415 00850 6, £22.99 paper, ISBN 0415 00851 4

Housing Management, Community Care and Competitive Tendering — A Good Practice Guide. David Clapham & Bridget Franklin London, Institute of Housing, 1994, £10.95 ISBN 0901 607762

Customer Service in a Competitive Environment. J. Passmore & S. Fergusson London, Institute of Housing, 1994, £14.95 ISBN 0901 607746     

Book reviews

The Latin American City. Alan Gilbert. London, Latin American Bureau, 1994, 190 pp., £8.99, paperback. ISBN: 0906 156823.

The Homeless. Christopher Jencks. Harvard University Press, London, 1994, 161pp., £14.25 ISBN: 0674405951.

The Housing Authority as an Enabler. R. Goodlad. Longman/CIOH, 1993, 211pp., £14.95 ISBN: 0582 081 882.

The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City. Joel Schwartz. ISBN: 08142 05879.

Maintaining Home Ownership: the Agency Approach. P. Leather & S. Mackintosh. The Housing Practice series, Longman/Institute of Housing, 1992. ISBN: 0582 09592–1.     

Book reviews

Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. S. Graham & S. Marvin. London and New York, Routledge, 1996, 434 pp., £15.99 pbk. ISBN: 0 415 11903 0.

Housing Policy in Scotland. T. Begg. John Donald, Edinburgh, 1996, £16 pbk. ISBN: 0 85976 433 8.

Developments in Housing Management and Ownership. Ricardo Pinto (Ed.). Manchester University Press, 1995, 267 pp., £45.00 hbk. ISBN: 0 7190 3713 1.

A New Social Atlas of Britain. Daniel Dorling. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1995, 247pp., £35.00 hbk. ISBN: 0 4719 4868 3.