Book Review

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Moving Beyond Gridlock: Traffic and Development Robert T. Dunphy. The Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC, 1997. 165 pp. $45.95 (paperback). Converging Infrastructures: Intelligent Transportation and the National Information Infrastructure Lewis M. Branscomb and James H. Keller, editors. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996. 392 pp. $50.00, $25.00 (paperback). GIS Online: Information Retrieval, Mapping, and the Internet Brandon Plewe. Onword Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1997. 311 pp. $45.00. Processing Digital Images in GIS David L. Verbyla and Kang-tsung (Karl) Chang. Onword Press, Santa Fe, NM, 1997. 295 pp. $49.95. Magnetic Los Angeles: Planning the Twentieth-Century Metropolis Greg Hise. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1997. 256 pp. $35.95. The Reluctant Metropolis: The Politics of Urban Growth in Los Angeles William Fulton. Solano Press Books, Point Arena, CA, 1996.400 pp. $28.95. Dilemmas of Urban Economic Development Richard D. Bingham and Robert Mier, editors. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997. 344 pp. $62.00, $26.00 (paperback). The New Regional Economies: The U.S. Common Market and the Global Economy William R. Barnes and Larry C. Ledebur. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997. 189 pp. $42.00, $19.95 (paperback). Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York Roger Waldinger. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1996. 374 pp. $35.00. Reconstructing City Politics: Alternative Economic Development and Urban Regimes David L. Imbroscio. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997. 210 pp. $42.00, $18.95 (paperback). Consumer Services and Economic Development Colin C. Williams. Routledge, New York, 1997. 293 pp. $75.00, $24.99 (paperback). The City After the Automobile. An Architect's Vision Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn. Basic Books, New York, 1997.187 pp. $24.00. Best Development Practices: Doing Things Right and Making Money at the Same Time Reid Ewing. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 1997. 180 pp. $42.95 (paperback). Environmental Policy: Transnational Issues and National Trends Lynton K. Caldwell and Robert V. Bartlett, editors. Quorum Books, Westport, CT, 1997.237 pp. $65.00. The Heat Is On Ross Gelbspan. Addison-Wesley, New York, 1997.278 pp. $23.00. Saved by Development: Preserving Environmental Areas, Farmland, and Historic Landmarks with Transfer ofDevelopment Rights Rick Pruetz. Arje Press, Burbank, CA, 1997.437 pp. $39.95. Controlling Development: Certainty and Discretion in Europe, the USA and Hong Kong Philip Booth. UCL Press, London, 1996. 168 pp. $75.00, $24.95 (paperback). The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A.y and the Fate of America's Big Cities Fred Siegel. The Free Press, New York, 1997. 260 pp. $24.00. Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 1997. 209 pp. $24.95. Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. Howard Gillette Jr. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1995. 298 pp. $32.95.