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Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subdues and Contested Landscapes Talmadge Wright. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1997. 408 pp. $19.95 (paperback). Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness Brendan O'Flaherty. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.349 pp. $39.95. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit Thomas J. Sugrue. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1996. 400 pp. $35.00, $16.95 (paperback). Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit June Manning Thomas. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 1997. 274 pp. $39.95. Paratransit in America: Redefining Mass Transit Robert Cervero. Praeger Press, West-port, CT, 1997. 281 pp. $59.95. Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transportation Daniel B. Klein, Adrian T. Moore, and Binyam Reja. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997. 148 pp. $36.95, $14.95 (paperback). Learning from Practice: Democratic Deliberation and the Promise of Planning Practice John Forester. Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1997. 107 pp. $15.00 (paperback). Learning from Practice: Democratic Deliberation and the Promise of Planning Practice John Forester. Urban Studies and Planning Program, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1997. 107 pp. $15.00 (paperback). Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda For Community and Stability Myron Orfield. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997. 224 pp. $28.95. Shaping Suburbia: How Political Institutions Organize Urban Development Paul G. Lewis. University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996. 288 pp. $19.95. Reconstructing Urban Regime Theory: Regulating Urban Politics in a Global Economy Mickey Lauria, editor. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997. 278 pp. $46.00, $23.95 (paperback). Civic Realism Peter G. Rowe. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997. 241 pp. $30.00. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition Chris Wilson. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM, 1997. 410 pp. $75.00, $39.95 (paperback). Urban Planning and the African American Community: In the Shadows June Manning Thomas and Marsha Ritzdorf, editors. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1997. 321 pp. $ 49.95, $23.95 (paperback). The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape Brian Ladd. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997.271 pp. $29.95. City Center to Regional Mall: Architecture, the Automobile, and Retailing in Los Angeles, 1920-1950 Richard Longstreth. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997. 504 pp. $60.00. Cartographies of Danger Mark S. Monmonier. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1997. 295 pp. $25.00. Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmlands Tom Daniels and Deborah Bowers. Island Press, Washington, DC, 1997. 420 pp. $34.95 (paperback). The Cinematic City David B. Clarke, editor. Routledge, New York, 1997. 240 pp. $75.00, $19.99 (paperback). Texaco Patrick Chamoiseau, translated by Rose Miriam Rejois and Val Vinokurov. Pantheon Books, New York, 1997. 401 pp. $27.00. National Information Infrastructure Initiatives: Vision and Policy Design Brian Kahin and Ernest Wilson, editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1997. 649 pp. $45.00, $25.00 (paperback). Land Development Handbook: Planning, Engineering and Surveying Dewberry & Davis, Inc., Sidney Dewberry and John Matusik, editors. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996, 1014 pp. $118.00. Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing Tom Jones, William Pettus, and Michael Pyatok. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1997. 268 pp. $59.95.