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Abstract A Focus on Economic Development: Creating an Economic Development Action Plan: A Guide for Development Professionals Thomas S. Lyons and Roger E. Hamlin. Praeger, New York, 1991.207 pp. $39.95. A Focus on Economic Development: Competitive Manufacturing: New Strategies for Regional Development Stuart A. Rosenfeld. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1992. 400 pp. $39.95. A Focus on Economic Development: Rural Community Economic Development Norman Walzer, editor. Praeger, New York, 1991. 187 pp. $49.95. A Focus on Economic Development: The United States in the Global Economy: Challenges and Policy Choices John Accordino. American Library Association, Chicago, 1992. 329 pp. $38.00 (paperback). A Focus on Economic Development: Challenging Uneven Development: An Urban Agenda for the 1990s Philip W. Nyden and Wim Wiewel, editors. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1991. 233 pp. $40.00, $15.00 (paperback). Planning and Its Subfields: Stuck in Traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion Anthony Downs. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 1992. 210 pp. $28.95, $10.95 (paperback). Planning and Its Subfields: Cleveland: A Concise History, 1796-1990 Carol Poh Miller and Robert Wheeler. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1990. 190 pp. ($10.95 paperback). Planning and Its Subfields: America at Century's End Alan Wolfe, editor. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991.579 pp. $29.95. Planning and Its Subfields: The Appalachian Regional Commission: Twenty-Five Years of Government Policy Michael Bradshaw. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1992. 168 pp. $21.00. Planning and Its Subfields: Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Albert Gore. Houghton Miflin, Boston, 1992. 407 pp. $22.95. Planning and Its Subfields: Political Crisis, Fiscal Crisis: The Collapse and Revival of New York City Martin Shefter. Columbia University Press, New York, 1992. $45.00, $13.50 (paperback). Planning and Its Subfields: Unequal Burden: Economic Crises, Persistent Poverty, and Women's Work Lourdes Beneria and Shelly Feldman, editors. Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 1992. 278 pages. $42.00, $15.95 (paperback). Planning and Its Subfields: Imagined Country: Society, Culture and Environment John Rennie Short. Routledge, New York, 1991.253 pp. $69.95, $18.95 (paperback). Planning and Its Subfields: A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town Michael Herzfeld. Princeton University Press, NJ, 1991. 305 pp. $16.95 (paperback). Briefly Noted: Sustainable Cities: Concepts and Strategies for Eco-City Development Bob Walter, Lois Arkin, Richard Crenshaw, editors. Eco-Home Media, Los Angeles, CA, 1992. 354 pp. $20.00. Briefly Noted: Essential Industry and the NIMBY Phenomenon Denis J. Brion. Quorum Books, New York, 1991. 220 pp. $49.95.