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Books & Videos: Public Financing: Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment, Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff. Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 339 pages. $54.95, $22.95 (paperback). Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition, Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengater. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2003. 207 pages. $55, $20 (paperback). The Triangle of Microfinance: Financial Sustainability, Outreach, and Impact, Manfred Zeller and Richard Meyer, editors. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003. 399 pages. $70, $30 (paperback). Replicating Microfinance in the United States, James Carr and Zhong Yi Tang, editors. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, Washington, DC, 2002. 387 pages. $45, $19.95 (paperback). Urban History: Planning the Twentieth-Century City: The Advanced Capitalist World, Stephen V. Ward. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, 2002. 470 pages. $40 (paperback). Understanding Cities [Video]: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (producer). Princeton, NJ, 1996. 53 minutes. $89.95. The City [Video]: Films for the Humanities & Sciences (producer). Princeton, NJ, 1999. 53 minutes. $149.95. Urban Spaces and Rural Places: Public and Private Spaces of the City, Ali Madanipour. Routledge, London, 2003. 256 pages. $104, $39.95 (paperback). The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space: Don Mitchell. Guilford Press, New York, 2003. 264 pages. $23 (paperback). Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America, Setha Low. Routledge, New York, 2003. 288 pages $26. Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland, Sonya Salamon. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2003. 246 pages. $35. LifePlace: Bioregional Thought and Practice, Robert L. Thayer, Jr. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003. 300 pages. $55, $21.95 (paperback). Discourses on Sustainability, Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities, Kent E. Portney. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 284 pages. $25.95 (paperback). Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World, Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans, editors. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 347 pages. $62, $24.95 (paperback). Asian Cities: The Disappearing Asian City: Protecting Asia's Urban Heritage in a Globalizing World, William S. Logan, editor. Oxford University Press, New York, 2002. 285 pages. $35. International Development: Development Theory Deconstructions/Reconstructions, Jan Nederveen Pieterse. Sage, London, 2001. 195 pages. $28 (paperback). Technology and Natural Resources: Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats and Opportunities, James N. Levitt, editor. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2002. 300 pages. $30 (paperback). Investment in Tourism: The Infrastructure of Play: Building the Tourist City, Dennis R. Judd, editor. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, NY, 2003. 350 pages. $79.95, $29.95 (paperback). Women and Historic Preservation: Restoring Women's History Through Historic Preservation, Gail Lee Dubrow and Jennifer B. Goodman, editors. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003. 451 pages. $49.95. Housing and Urban Poverty, Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America, Edward G. Goetz. Urban Institute Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 314 pages. $29.50 (paperback). Briefly Noted: Residential Choices and Experiences of Older Adults: Pathways to Life Quality, John A. Krout and Elaine Wethington, editors. Springer, 2003. 231 pages. $37.95. Alternative Futures for Changing Landscapes: The Upper San Pedro River Basin in Arizona and Sonora, Carl Steinitz, Hector Arias, Scott Bassett, Michael Flaxman, Tomas Goode, Thomas Maddock III, David Mouat, Richard Peiser, and Allan Shearer. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 200 pages. $60, $30 (paperback). Books & Other Materials Received