Book Reviews

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Abstract The Process of Economic Planning Zoltan Kenessey. Columbia University Press, New York, 1978. 400 pp. $16.50. Urban America: From Downtown to No Town David R. Goldfield and Blaine A. Brownell. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1979. 435 pp. $9.95 (pb). The Last Entrepreneurs: America's Regional Wars for Jobs and Dollars Robert Goodman. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1979. 300+ pp. $11.95. The Good Society: A Personal Account of its Struggle with the World of Planning and a Dialectical Inquiry into the Roots of Radical Practice John Friedmann, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979. 196 pp. $12.50. Doing Good; The Limits of Benevolence Willard Gaylin, Ira Glasser, Steven Marcus, and David Rothman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978. 171 pp. $2.95 (pb). Urban and Regional Planning in a Federal State: The Canadian Experience William T. Perks and Ira M. Robinson, ed. Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1979. 363 pp. $52.00. Community Revitalization Gerald F. Whittaker, ed. Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1979. 247 pp. $5.00 (pb). Central City Economic Development Benjamin Chinitz, Editor. Abt Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979. 198 pp. $19.50. A Dilemma of Local Government Paul R. Dimond, Constance Chamberlain, and Wayne Hillyard. Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, Lexington, Mass., 1978. 319 pp. $19.95. Politics and Planning Michael Lee Vasu. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1979. 236 pp. $17.00. Urban Land Use Planning (Third Edition) F. Stuart Chapin, Jr. and Edward J. Kaiser. University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Illinois, 1979. 647 pp. $22.50. Comprehensive Planning and the Environment: A Manual for Planners John S. Willson, Philip Tabas, and Marian Henneman. Abt Books, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979. 283 pp. $25. A Primer on Industrial Environmental Impact Michael R. Greenberg and Glen Belnay, William Cesanek, Nancy Newman, George Shepherd. The Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, 1979. 268 pp. $17.95. Applied Linear Programming for the Socioeconomic and Environmental Sciences Michael R. Greenberg. Academic Press, New York, 1978. 327 pp. $19.00. The Community Analysis Model David L Birch, et al. USGPO, Washington, D.C., 1979. 325 pp. $5.25. The Behavioral Foundations of Neighborhood Change David L. Birch, et al. USGPO, Washington, D.C., 1979. 205 pp. $4.25. A Critical Evaluation of “The Community Analysis Model” Edwin S. Mills. USGPO, Washington, D.C., 1979. 46 pp. n.p. The Urban Transportation System: Politics and Policy Innovation Alan Altshuler, with James P. Womack and John R. Pucher. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979, 558 pp. $29.95. Planning and Politics: The Metro Toronto Transportation Plan Review Juri Pill. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1979. 230 pp. $19.95. Rental Housing in the City of New York Peter Marcuse, Harvey Goldstein, and Moon Wha Lee. City of New York, Division of Rent Control, New York, 1979. 350 pp. No price. Introduction to Architecture Edited by James C. Snyder and Anthony J. Catanese. McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1979, 450 pp. $23.50. Introduction to Urban Planning Edited by Anthony J. Catanese and James C. Snyder. McGraw Hill Book Company, New York, 1979. 354 pp. $22.50. Legal Foundations of Land Use Planning Jerome G. Rose. Center for Urban Policy Research, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1979. 529 pp. $17.95. Planning and Control of Land Development Daniel R. Mandelker and Roger A. Cunningham. Michie Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1979. 1261 pp. $23.00. Cities of the American West John W. Reps. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1979. 827 pp. $75.00.