BOOK REVIEWS

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From the Book Review Editors Videos & CDS Ecology of the City The City and the Environment [Video] 1995. 23 minutes. $89.95. Man and the Biosphere: Urban Ecology [Video] 1991. 24 minutes. $89.95. Man and the Biosphere: Toward a Livable City [Video] 1991. 27 minutes. $89.95. (Films for the Humanities & Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053, http://www.films.com) Design of American Places Pride of Place: Building the American Dream [Video] Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Producer). 1997. 8-part series, each 58 minutes. $675. (Films for the Humanities & Sciences, P.O. Box 2053, Princeton, NJ 08543-2053, http://www.films.com) Sustainable Communities Subdivide and Conquer: A Modern Western [Video] J. Gersh & C. Congson (Producer and director). 1999. 57 minutes. $250. (Bullfrog Films, Box 149, Oley, PA 19547, http://www.bullfrogfilms.com) Understanding Urban Sprawl [Video] Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Producer). 1999. 47 minutes. $129. (Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PO Box 2053, Princeton, NJ. 08543-2053, <http://www.films.com>) This Place Called Home: Tools for Sustainable Communities [CDROM] Alliance for Community Education and Pearson-Glaser (Producer). New Society, Stony Creek, CT, 1999. $24.95. Historic Perspectives Historic American Towns Along the Atlantic Coast Warren Boeschenstein. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1999. 352 pages. $39.95. Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis Carl Abbott. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1999. 252 pages. $39.95, $19.95 (paperback). Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West Timothy P. Duane. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. 1999. 595 pages. $50, $29.95 (paperback). Historic Preservation: An Introduction to its History, Principles, and Practice Norman Tyler. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2000. 254 pages. $25 (paperback). The Latin American City Alan Gilbert. Latin American Bureau, New York, 1998. 228 pages. $25 (paperback). Transportation Management Travel Demand Management and Public Policy Erik Ferguson. Ashgate Press, Burlington, VT, 2000. 337 pages. $79.95. Network Infrastructure and the Urban Environment: Advances in Spatial Systems Modeling Lars Lundqvist, Lars-Göran Mattsson, and Tschango John Kim, editors. Springer-Verlag Series in Advances in Spatial Science, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1998. 414 pages. $99. NEPA The NEPA Planning Process: A Comprehensive Guide with Emphasis on Efficiency Charles H. Eccleston. John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1999. 396 pages. $65. Building Rules Building Rules: How Local Controls Shape Community Environments and Economies Kee Warner and Harvey Molotch. Westview Press, Boulder CO, 2000. 204 pages. $59. Planning the Built Environment Larz T. Anderson. Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 2000. 268 pages. $52. Density by Design: New Directions in Residential Development Steven Fader. Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC, 2000. 175 pages. $69.95 (paperback). Housing The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy Sandra J. Newman, editor. The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 1999. 249 pages. $49.50, $19.50 (paperback). State and Local Affordable Housing Programs: A Rich Tapestry Michael A. Stegman. Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC, 1999. 226 pages. $49.95 (paperback). Economics and Planning The Economics of Planning Eric J. Heikkila. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000. 256 pages. $24.95. Neighborhood Recovery: Reinvestment Policy for the New Hometown John Kromer. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000. 262 pages. $55, $22 (paperback). Small Town and Rural Economic Development: A Case Studies Approach Peter V. Schaeffer and Scott Loveridge, editors. Praeger Publishers, Westport, CT, 2000. 293 pages. $62.50. Generating Jobs: How to Increase Demand For Less-Skilled Workers Richard B. Freeman and Peter Gottschalk, editors. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1998. 336 pages. $34.95. Community Development Urban Problems and Community Development Ronald F. Ferguson and William T. Dickens, editors. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1999. 628 pages. $56.95, $24.95 (paperback). What is Development? Theories of Development Richard Peet with Elaine Hartwick. The Guilford Press, New York and London, 1999. 234 pages. $22.95 (paperback). Moral Communities Open Moral Communities Seymour J. Mandelbaum. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000. 242 pages. $30.00. Briefly Noted Designing the City: Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form Hildebrand Frey. New York: Routledge, 1999. 148 pages. $55. Cultivating Grass-Roots for Regional Development in a Globalising Economy: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Organised Markets James Cécora. Ashgate Publishing, Brookfield, VT, 1999. 147 pages. $61.95. Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order Allen J. Scott. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1998. 177 pages. $55. Urban America: Process and Problems John M. Levy. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2000. 302 pages. $26.25 (paperback).