Abstract Abstract THE LAW OF ZONING AND PLANNING (2d edition). By Charles A. Rathkopf, assisted by Arden H. Rathkopf. The Grosby Press, New York, 1949. 667 pages. $15.00. REAL ESTATE SUBDIVISIONS. By Stanley S. McMichael. Prentice Hall, Inc., New York. 1949. 393 pages. $5.75. “DEAD” LAND-A Study of Chronic Tax Delinquency and Abandonment. By the Housing Authority of the County of Cook Illinois; a staff report under the direction of Frederick T. Aschman, and Henry C. Piel, March 1949. 90 pages. SHOPPING CENTERS: AN ANALYSIS. Urban Land Institute Technical Bulletin No. 11. Seward H. Mott and Max S. Wehrly Editors. Washington, D. C., 1949. 40 pages, illustrations. $5.00 to non-Institute members. MARKET ANALYSIS OF SHOPPING CENTERS by Homer Hoyt, Urban Land Institute Technical Bulletin No. 12, Washington, D. C., 1949. $9.00 to non-Institute members. ECONOMIC PLANNING, The Plans of Fourteen Countries, With Analyses of The of Plans. By Seymour E. Harris. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1949. 577 pages. $6.00.