Reviews

REGIONAL PLANNING: A COMPREHENSIVE VIEW

JEREMY ALDEN and ROBERT MORGAN

Leonard Hill Books, Intertext, London, 1974. £6.

MAN‐MADE FUTURES: READINGS IN SOCIETY, TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN

NIGEL CROSS, DAVID ELLIOTT and ROBIN ROY (EDS.)

Hutchinson Educational in association with Open University Press, London, 1974. 365 pp., cased £5, paperback £2.75.

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM STRUCTURE PLAN: WRITTEN STATEMENT

NEVILLE BORG (City Engineer)

City of Birmingham, 1973.

DESIGNING FOR HUMAN BEHAVIOUR: ARCHITECTURE AND THE BEHAVIOURAL SCIENCES

(Community Development Series. Series Editor, Richard P. Dober.)

JON LANG, CHARLES BURNETTE, WALTER MOLESKI and DAVID VACHON (EDS.)

Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., Stroudsburg, Pa., 1974. 352 pp., S20 (U.K. price not stated).

THE BOOK OF GARDEN ORNAMENT

PETER HUNT (ED.)

J. M. Dent & Co., London, 1974. £9.75.

AMENITY AND URBAN PLANNING

DAVID L. SMITH

Crosby Lockwood Staples, London, 1974. 198 pp. £4.50.     

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TECHNIQUES OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A. E. Weddle (ed.) for the Institute of Landscape Architects. Published by Heinemann, London. Price 90s.

MAN AND ENVIRONMENT by Robert Arvill Pelican. Price 8/6d.

TEMA MANHEAN—A STUDY OF SETTLEMENT by G. W. Amarteifo, D. A. P. Butcher and David Whitham Published by Ghana Universities Press. 1966. Price 50/‐

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL, quarterly UNESCO, Paris. Price 10/‐ each issue

TOWARDS A NEW RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND NATURE IN TEMPERATE LANDS—PART II Proceedings and papers of the tenth technical meeting of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Published by I.U.C.N. 1066. Price $3.50

THE TOWN HALL AND THE PROPERTY OWNER by David Wooley Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1967. Price 25/‐

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY; A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Occasional Paper No. 2. Price 9/‐by P. M. Townroe

RECREATION RESEARCH METHODS; A REVIEW OF RECENT STUDIES Occasional Paper No. 3 University of Birmingham Centre for Urban and Regional Studies. £1 10 od by Thomas L. Burton, and P. A. Noad

PLANNING FOR PLAY by Lady Allen of Hurtwood Thames and Hudson Ltd. £2 2 od     

Reviews

THE COASTLINE OF ENGLAND AND WALES. 2nd Edition: 1965.

by J. A. Steers

Published by Cambridge University Press. Price: £5. 5s.

TOWN CENTRE MAPS—a guide to their preparation in Kent.

Prepared by the County Planning Officer. Price: 7/6.

DANISH PLANNING LEGISLATION: A SURVEY

Ministry of Housing, Copenhagen, October 1963

ECONOMIC STUDY OF THE PITTSBURGH REGION

Vol. 1. Region in Transition.

Vol. 2. Portrait of a Region.

Vol. 3. Region with a Future.

University of Pittsburgh Press. Price: $8.

TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING IN ENGLAND AND WALES

by J. B. Cullingworth.

Published by George Allen and Unwin Ltd. 1964. Price: £1. 16s.

POPULATION PATTERNS—THEIR IMPACT ON REGIONAL PLANNING

by David Grove.

Published by the Building Research Group, Kumasi

University of Science and Technology. Price not given.

THE NEW TOWNS OF BRITAIN

Published by H.M.S.O. 1964. Price: 2/9.

REGIONAL SHOPPING CENTRES

A Planning Report on North‐West England; by the Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Manchester. Published by the Department. Price not given.

THE TOWNS OF GHANA—THE ROLE OF SERVICE CENTRES IN REGIONAL PLANNING.

by David Grove and Laszlo Huszar.

Ghana Universities Press 1964. Price: £1. 6s.

CITY OF LIVERPOOL; REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN

City Planning Policy Report, Part 1.

Analysis and Preliminary Conclusions. September 1964.

DERELICT LAND

Civic Trust, London. Price: 7/6.

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION—A Select List of Books and Periodicals Published for The British Council by Longmans Green & Co. Ltd. Price: 5/‐.

PARKING SPACE FOR CARS, ASSESSING THE DEMAND

by G. J. Roth

University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Economics, Occasional

Papers 5. 1965. Price: 10/6d.     

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MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF THE ECONOMY AND OTHER ESSAYS

Richard Stone

Chapman and Hall, 1970, 335 pp. £5.

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING FOR CHILDREN'S PLAY

Arvid Bengtsson

Crosby Lockwood and Son Ltd. £4.50.

DESIGN WITH NATURE

Ian L. McHarg

Natural History Press, New York, $19.95.     

Reviews

A DEVELOPING STRATEGY FOR THE WEST MIDLANDS

Report by The West Midland Regional Study, 1971. N.p.s

ARCHITECTURE BY TEAM

W. W. Caudill

Van Nostrand Reinhold, N.Y. £9.00

KINETIC ARCHITECTURE

William Zuk and Roger H. Clark

London: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1970

164pp. including plates and diagrams. £7.50

LANDSCAPE AND ANTIQUITY: Aspects of English Culture at Sourhead 1718 to 1838

Kenneth Woodbridge

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970. £5.00

A HISTORY OF GARDENS AND GARDENING

Edward Hyams J. M. Dent, London. £7.50     

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Planning theory

Andreas Faludi

Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1973. Hard cover £4.75, flexi‐cover £3.

PLANNING AND THE INNOVATION PROCESS (Progress in Planning, Vol. 1, Part 3)

Ray Jefferson

Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1973

THRESHOLD ANALYSIS MANUAL

Scottish Development Department H.M.S.O., London, 1973. £6

THE PLANNER IN SOCIETY: THE CHANGING ROLE OF A PROFESSION

David Eversley

Faber and Faber, London, 1973. £4.75.

SUB‐REGIONAL PLANNING STUDIES: AN EVALUATION

T. M. Cowling and G. C. Steeley

Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1973. £3.80

SKETCHBOOKS OF PAOLO SOLERI

Paolo Soleri.

M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 1971.

ARCOLOGY: THE CITY IN THE IMAGE OF MAN.

Paolo Soleri.

M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 1969.

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED AND THE AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL TRADITION

Albert Fein

George Braziller, New York. $10.00 cloth. $3.95 paper.

ECOLOGY AND RECLAMATION OF DEVASTED LAND (2 vols.) ed. Russel Hutnick and Grant Davis

Gordon and Breach, New York, 1973. £25.00.

MAN MADE THE LAND: Essays in English Historical Geography

Ed. Alan R. H. Baker and J. B. Harley.

David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1973. £5.25.

THE UNKNOWN URBAN REALM (Vol. 2, Europe 2,000, Project 3, Urbanization, Planning Human Environment in Europe)

U. Neveling, R. Sulzer, W. Ubbens, G. Wersig.

Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1973.     

Reviews

DESIGN ON THE LAND: the development of Landscape Architecture Norman T. Newton Belknap Harvard

COMMUNITY CENTERS AND STUDENT UNIONS Eugene D. Sternberg and Barbara E. Sternberg Van Hostrand Reinhold Company, New York.

DECISION AND CONTROL by Stafford Beer, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1966 (3rd printing, 1970)

INDUSTRIAL DYNAMICS by Jay W. Forrester, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1961. S.1O.5O.

PRINCIPLES OF SYSTEMS by Jay W. Forrester. Wright‐Allen Press, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., 1968.

PUBLIC INQUIRIES AS AN INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT R.E. Wraith and G.B. Lamb George Allen & Unwin Ltd. for the Royal Institute of Public Administration, London 1971, £4.50.

SYSTEMS APPROACH AND THE CITY M.D. Mesarovic and A. Reisman (eds.) North‐Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam and London, 1972.

SIMULATION IN THE CLASSROOM John L. Taylor and Rex Walford Penguin Books, London, 1972. 45p.

DEVELOPMENT BUILDING: THE TEAM APPROACH C.W. Griffin John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for the American Institute of Architects, New York, 1972.     

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NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AND URBAN RENEWAL

by J. Clarence Davies 111

Columbia University Press, 1966

THE CITY PLANNING PROCESS — A POLITICAL ANALYSIS

by Alan Altshuler

Cornell University Press, 1965

RECLAIMING DERELICT LAND

by J. R. Oxenham

Faber & Faber. Price 42/‐.

GARDEN CITIES OF TOMORROW

by Ebenezer Howard, ed. with preface by F. J. Osborn and with an introductory essay

by Lewis Mumford.

Faber and Faber, Price 7/6.

INDUSTRIAL MOVEMENT AND THE REGIONAL PROBLEM

by G. C. Cameron and B. D. Clark.

University of Glasgow Social and Economic Studies, Occasional Paper No. 5. Price 21/‐     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Natural Resource Economics: Selected Papers : S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup, edited by Richard 0. Bishop and Stephen 0. Anderson.
Mining and Development : Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
Price-forecasting techniques and thier application to minerals and metals in the global economy     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows (eds), Limits to Growth: The 30‐Year Update Koontz, T.M., Steelman, T.A., Carmin, J., Korfmacher, K.S., Moseley, C. and Thomas, C.W. (eds), Collaborative Environmental Management: What roles for Government? Götz Schroth, Gustavo A.B. da Fonseca, Celia A. Harvey, Claude Gascon, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, and Anne‐Marie N. Izac (eds), Agroforestry and Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Landscapes Dev Nathan, Govind Kelkar, Pierre Walter (eds), Globalization and Indigenous Peoples in Asia: Changing the Local‐Global Interface Malin Falkenmark and Johan Rockström (eds), Balancing Water for Humans and Nature: The New Approach in Ecohydrology Duncan Mara (ed.), Domestic Wastewater Treatment in Developing Countries     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Pamela S. Chasek, David L. Downie, and Janet Welsh Brown, Global Environmental Politics, 4th Edition
Ian Calder, Blue Revolution: Integrated Land and Water Resources Management, 2nd Edition
Vivienne Bennett, Sonia Dávila-Poblete and María Nieves Rico (eds), Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America
Petri S. Juuti and Tapio S. Katko (eds), Water, Time and European Cities: History Matters for the Futures
Jyotsna Bapat, Development Projects and Critical Theory of Environment
Carol J. Pierce Colfer, The Complex Forest. Communities, Uncertainty, and Adaptive Collaborative Management     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Grassroots Environmental Action: People's Participation in Sustainable Development Edited by Dharam Ghai and Jessica M Vivian Routledge Press, New York Paradise Lost? The Ecological Economics of Biodiversity Edward B Barbier, Joanne C Burgess and Carl Folke Earthscan Publications Limited, London Whose Backyard, Whose Risk? Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting Michael B Gerrard MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA Environment, Growth and Development: The Concepts and Strategies of Sustainability Peter Bartelmus Routledge, London     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Toward a New Iron Age? Quantitative Modelling of Resource Exhaustion Authors: Robert B. Gordon, Tjalling C. Koopmans, William D. Nordhaus and Brian J. Skinner. Petroleum and Mexico's Future Editor: Pamela Falk Groundwater in Northern and Western Africa Publisher Water Resources and Water Management (Developments in Water Science, Vol. 28) Author: Milan K. Jermar     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Sustainable development SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD, by David Pearce, Edward Barbier and Anil Markandya
Politics, technology and social choice DIVIDED WE STAND: REDEFINING POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIAL CHOICE, by Michiel Schwarz and Michael Thompson
Coping with disaster CHALLENGES OF THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR NATURAL DISASTER REDUCTION (IDNDR)