Book reviews

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Long‐Term Financial Planning: Creative Strategies for Local Government, International City Management Association, 1987, pp. 188, $19.95 The Decline of Urban Politics, Political Theory and the Crisis of the Local State. M. Gottdiener, Sage Publications, 1987, pp. 299, £12.95 paperback. Feminist Theories and Practical Policies: Shifting the Agenda in the 1980s. Frankie Ashton and Gill Whining, SAUS Occasional Paper 29, University of Bristol, 1987, pp. 130, £6.40 paperback. Accountabilities ‐ Five Public Services, Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein, Tavistock, London, 1987, pp. 259, £9.95. Urban Unemployment: Local Labour, Market and Employment Initiatives, Chris Hasluck, Longman, 1987, pp. 248, £6.95, paperback. Youth Employment and Unemployment in Rural England: Report of a one year pilot study in four rural areas for the Development Commission, Elliot Stern and Jill Turbin, Development Commission and Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, 1986, pp. 138, £5.00 (paperback). Two Tier Relationships in British Local Government, Steve Leach, Carol Vielba & Norman Flynn, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, 1987, pp. 54, £6.95, paperback. Housing Policy in Britain, A.E. Holmans, Croom Helm, 1987, £29.95. Public Housing: Current Trends and Future Developments, Edited by David Clapham and John English, Croom Helm, 1987, £22.50. Planning in Britain and Canada, Vol. I, C. Minay (ed.); Planning and Design in Britain and Canada, Vol. II, George Rich (ed.), Department of Town Planning, Oxford Polytechnic, 1987. Planning Applications: The RMJM Guide, Adrian Salt & Henry Brown, BSP Professional Books, 1987, pp. 172, £19.95. Contract Compliance: The UK Experience, Institute of Personnel Management, October 1987, no price quoted. Getting in on the Act: A Guide to Local Authorities’ Powers to Fund Voluntary Organizations, Clive Grace and Richard Gutch, National Council for Voluntary Organizations, 1987, pp. 116, £6.00 (voluntary organizations £3.00).