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Abstract Abstract Everything a Planner Needs to Know about Leisure Services Systems? Henry C. Hightower Henry C. Hightower is a professor of community and regional planning at the University of British Columbia. His doctoral thesis at the University of North Carolina and a paper at the 1966 AIP meeting were on leisure planning. It has taken fifteen years for him to get over being tired of leisure and return to this aspect of planning. Muddling Toward Frugality Warren Johnson. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, 1978. 252 pp. $6.95. Planning for Wildlife in Cities and Suburbs Daniel L. Leedy, Robert M. Maestro, and Thomas M. Franklin of the Urban Wildlife Research Center, Inc., Ellicott City, Md., for the Office of Biological Services, Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Department of the Interior. Cosponsored by the American Society of Planning Officials. Superintendent of Documents, U.S.G.P.O., Washington, D.C. 20402 Stock Number 024-010-00471-1. January 1978. 64 pp. $2.40 (paperback). (Also published as Planning Advisory Service Report #331 by American Planning Association, available to subscribers only.) The City and Social Theory Michael P. Smith. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1979. 315 pp. $14.95 (cloth), $5.95 (paperback). Environmental Choice, Human Behavior, and Residential Satisfaction William Michelson. Oxford University Press, New York, 1977. 403 pp. $10.50 (cloth), $6.50 (paperback). Housing the Poor: The Case for Heroism Alexander Polikoff. Ballinger Publishing Company. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1978. 216 pp. $15.00. The Challenge of the Resource Exchange Network Seymour B. Sarason and Elizabeth Lorentz. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1979. 283 pp. $13.95. Current Issues in Urban Economics Peter Mieszkowski and Mahlon Straszheim, eds. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 1979. 589 pp. $25.00. Beyond Capitalist Planning Stuart Holland, Editor. St. Martin's Press, New York, 1978. 222 pp. $18.95. Evaluation: A Systematic Approach Peter H. Rossi, Howard E. Freeman, and Sonia R. Wright. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills, California, 1979. 336 pp. $14.95. Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management C. S. Holling, ed. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, New York, Brisbane, and Toronto, 1978. 377 pp. $16.50. Protecting the Golden Shore Robert G. Healy, Editor, John S. Banta, John R. Clark, William J. Duddleson. The Conservation Fondation, Washington, D.C., 1978. 257 pp. $6.75 (paperback). The Local Growth Management Guidebook Eddie L. Schwertz, Jr. Southern Growth Policies Board, P.O. Box 12293, Research Triangle Park, N.C., 1979. 191 pp. $8.00 (paperback). Downtown U.S.A.: Urban Design in Nine American Cities Kenneth Halpern. Watson-Guptill Publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1978. 256 pp. $27.50 (hardcover). Collage City Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1979. 185 pp. $22.50.