BOOK REVIEWS

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Abstract Books reviewed in this article: Regional Studies for Planning and Projecting: The Siberian Experience. A. G. AGANBEGYAN, ed. Integrated Physical, Socio-economic, and Environmental Planning. Yusuf J. Ahmad and Frank G. Müller, eds. Dynamics of Global Crisis. S. Amis, G. Arrighi, A. G. Frank, and I. Wallerstein. Period and Place: Research Methods in Historical Geography. Alan R. H. Baker and Mark Billinge, eds. Analyzing Natural Systems: Analysis for Regional Residuals-Environmental Quality Management. Danie J. Basta and Blair T. Bower, eds. Environmental Studies. Daniel B. Botkin and Edward A. Keller. Maps and Dreams. Hugh Brody. Political Studies from Spatial Perspectives. Alan D. Burnett and Peter J. Taylor, eds. Modern World Development: A Geographical Perspective. Michael Chisholm. Energy and Development in Latin America. Nazli Choucri. Modern Metropolitan Systems. Charles M. Christian and Robert A. Harper. The Evolution of American Urban Society, 2nd ed. Howard P. Chudacoff. Regional and Urban Location. Colin Clark. Modelling Housing Market Search. W. A. V. Clark, ed. The Development Gap: A Spatial Analysis of World Poverty and Inequality. J. P. Cole. Cities in a Larger Context. Thomas W. Collins, ed. An Introduction to Social Planning in the Third World. Diana Conyers. Archives and Manuscripts: Maps and Architectural Drawings. Ralph E. Ehrenberg. Global Environmental Issues. Essam El-Hinnawi and Manzur-Ul-Hashmi, eds. An Account of a Voyage to the North West Coast of America in 1785 and 1786. Alexander Walker. Robin Fisher and J. M. Bumsted, eds. The North Frontier of New Spain. Peter Gerhard. The Boundary Hunters: Surveying the 141st Meridian and the Alaskan Panhandle. Lewis Green. Survey of Climatology. John F. Griffiths and Dennis M. Driscoll. Representation and Redistricting Issues. B. Grofman, A. Lijphart, R.B. Mckay and H.A. Scarrow, eds. The Geography of Urban Crime. David Herbert. Geography and the Urban Environment: Progress in Research and Applications, Vol. 4. D. T. Herbert and R. J. Johnston, eds. Inner City Regeneration. Robert K. Home. Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective. Gavin Kitching. British Regional Development Since World War I. Christopher M. Law. Population Estimates: Methods for Small Area Analysis. Everett S. Lee and Harold F. Goldsmith. The Fractal Geometry of Nature. Benoit B. Mandelbrot. And The Poor Get Children: Radical Perspectives on Population Dynamics. Karen L. Michaelson, ed. Geography in Brazil (1934–1977)—Evaluation and Tendencies. Carlos Augusto de Figueiredo Monteiro. National Industrial Strategies and the World Economy. John Pinder, ed. Environment and Trade. Seymour J. Rubin and Thomas R. Graham, eds. Rainforest Corridors: The Transamazon Colonization Scheme. Nigel J. H. Smith. Cities in Transition: Changing Job Structures in Atlanta, Denver, Buffalo, Phoenix, Columbus (Ohio), Nashville, and Charlotte. Thomas M. Stanback, Jr., and Thierry J. Noyelle. World Regions: Changing Interactions. Charles A. Stansfield, Jr. and Chester E. Zimolzak. Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845. John R. Stilgoe. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Deforestation in the Third World. Vinson H. Sutline, Natham Altshuler, and Mario D. Zamora, eds. Tierra Adentro: Settlement and Society in Colonial Durango. Michael M. Swann. Urban Patterns: Studies in Human Ecology. 2nd ed. George A. Theodorson, ed. Space and Time in Geomorphology. Colin E. Thorn, ed. Segmented Worlds and Self. Yi-Fu Tuan. George Gauld, Surveyor and Cartographer of the Gulf Coast. John D. Ware and Robert R. Rea. Rural Employment: Trends, Options, Choices. Ian Whitby and Martin Hodge. Timber Colony: A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick. Graeme Wynn.