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From the Review Editors: The Globalization of Planning Books: Planning Theory: Shadows of Power: An Allegory of Prudence in Land-Use Planning, Jean Hillier, Routledge, New York, 2002. 345 pages. $31.95. Story and Sustainability: Planning, Practice and Possibility for American Cities, Barbara Eckstein and James A. Throgmorton editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 267 pages. $24.95. International Planning and Development, Emerging Johannesburg: Perspectives on the Postapartheid City, Richard Tomlinson, Robert A. Beauregard, Lindsay Bremner, and Xolela Mangcu editors. Routledge, New York, 2003. 305 pages. $90, $26.95 (paperback). European Spatial Planning, Andreas Faludi editor. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2002. 240 pages. $25. Squatters as Developers?: Slum Demolition and Redevelopment in Mumbai, India, Vinit Mukhija. Ashgate, Hampshire, UK, 2003. 190 pages. $79.95. America s New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?, Larry R. Ford., Johns Hopkins, University Press, Baltimore, 2003. 340 pages. $45. Redefining Urban & Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000, Bruce Katz and Robert E. Lang editors. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 305 pages. $19.95 (paperback). Urban History: City: Urbanism and its End, Douglas W. Rae. Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003. 516 pages. $30. Housing and Community Development: Community Action for School Reform, Howell S. Baum. State University of New York Press, Albany, 2003. 297 pp. $68.50, $22.95 (paperback). Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment, John Goering and Judith D. Feins editors. Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 422 pages. $34.50. Regional Approaches to Affordable Housing, Stuart Meck, Rebecca Retzlaff, and Jim Schwab, American Planning Association, PAS Report Nos. 513/514, Chicago, 2003. 274 pages. $60 (paperback). Unfair Housing: How National Policy Shapes Community Action, Mara S. Sidney., University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2003. 186 pages. $16.95 (paperback). Environmental Planning and Management: Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities, Edward P. Weber. MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2003-333 pages. $67, $26.95(paperback). Ecosystems and Human Well-Being, Robert T. Watson and A. H. Zakri, Co-chairs, Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Board. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 245 pages. $25. Public Health: Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity, Lawrence D. Frank, Peter O. Engelke, and Thomas L. Schmid. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 242 pages. $30 (paperback). City of Las Vegas: The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas, Hal K. Rothman and Mike Davis editors. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002. 388 pages. $50, $19.95 (paperback). Neon Metropolis: How Las Vegas Started the Twenty-First Century, Hal K. Rothman, Routledge, New York, 2002. 352 pages. $18.95 (paperback). Property Rights: The Land We Share: Private Property and the Common Good, Eric T. Freyfogle, Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 336 pages. $25. Briefly Noted: Foul Ball: My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark, Jim Bouton, Bulldog Publishing, North Egremont, MA, 2003. 366 pages. $24.95. Environmental Justice in America: A New Paradigm, Edwardo Lao Rhodes., Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2003. 263 pages. $39.95. Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A., Colin Flint editor. Routledge, New York, 2003. 266 pages. $23.95. A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy, Richard K. Green and Stephen Malpezzi., The Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 226 pages. $26.50 (paperback). State Growth Management and Open Space Preservation Policies, Robert Wilson and Robert Paterson editors. LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, Public Research Project Report #143, 2002. 189 pages. $22. Urbanism: Imported or Exported? Native Aspirations and Foreign Plans, Joe Nasr and Mercedes Volait editors. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2003. 354 pages. $40 (paperback). Books & Other Materials Received Edgeless Cities: Exploring the Elusive Metropolis, Robert E. Lang, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2003. 155 pages. $18.95 (paperback).