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Cities for Citizens Mike Douglass and John Friedmann, editors. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998. 302 pp. $75, $27.95 (paperback). Good Neighborhoods: A Study of In-Town & Suburban Residential Environments Sidney Brower Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 1996. 224 pp. $59.95. The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory Lyn H. Lofland Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1998. 305 pp. $52.95, $29.95 (paperback). Developing Infill Housing in Inner-City Neighborhoods: Opportunities and Strategies Diane R. Suchman and Margaret B. Sowell. The Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC, 1997. 122 pp. $49.95 (paperback). Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless James D. Wright, Beth A. Rubin, and Joel A. Devine. Aldine de Gruyter, New York, 1998. 239 pp. $39.95, $19.95 (paperback). Housing and Community Development in New York City Michael H. Schill, editor. State University of New York Press, Albany, 1999. 277 pp. $65.50, $21.95 (paperback). New Directions in Urban Public Policy David P. Varady, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, and Francis P. Russell. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998. 287 pp. $19.95 (paperback). Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies and the Politics of Mobility James A. Dunn, Jr., Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1998. 222 pp. $44.95, $18.95 (paperback). The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry Robert Burke Cervero. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1998. 400 pp. $40 (paperback). Land Value Taxation: Can It and Will It Work Today? Dick Netzer, editor. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 1998. 284 pp. $25 (paperback). Managing Growth in America's Communities Douglas R. Porter. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1997. 285 pp. $29.95 (paperback). Japanese Urban Environment Gideon S. Golany, Keisuke Hanaki, and Osamu Koide, editors. Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 1998. 367 pp. $80.50. The Japanese City P. P. Karan and Kristen Stapleton, editors. The University Press of Kentucky, Lexingon, 1997. 256 pp. $31.95. The Dynamics of Urban Growth in Three Chinese Cities Shahid Yusuf and Weiping P.Wu. Oxford University Press, New York, 1997. 248 pp. $60. High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology Donald A. Schön, Bish Sanyal, and William J. Mitchell, editors. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 411 pp. $25 (paperback). Hypothetical City Workbook Edward J. Kaiser, David R. Godschalk, Richard E. Klosterman, and Ann-Margaret Esnard. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, IL, 1998. 159 pp. $23.95 (paperback with 3.5-inch IBM-PC format floppy disk). Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities Raymond J. Burby, editor. Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 1998. 356 pp. $47.95. Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery Mary C. Comerio. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1998. 300 pp. $39.95. Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy and Planning David R. Godschalk, Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke, David J. Brower, and Edward J. Kaiser. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1999. 575 pp. $45 (paperback). Similarities, Connections, and Systems: The Search for a New Rationality for Planning and Management Niraj Verma. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 1998. 159 pp. $52.00. The Entrepreneurial Process: Economic Growth, Men, Women, and Minorities Paul D. Reynolds and Sammis B. White, with chapters by Nancy Carter and Mary Williams. Quorum Books, Westport, CT, 1997. 256 pp. $59.95. People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space (2nd edition) Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis, editors. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1998. 384 pp. $39.95 (paperback). Action Planning for Cities: A Guide to Community Practice Nabeel Hamdi and Reinhard Goethert. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997. 252 pp. $71.95. Cities of Hope: People, Protests and Progress in Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930 James A. Baer and Ronn Pineo, editors. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1998. 285 pp. $67, $22.95 (paperback).