Book reviews

Book reviews in this article:
Disability and the City: International Perspectives by Rob Imrie
Social Change and the Middle Classes edited by Tim Butler and Mike Savage
Regulation Theory and the British State: the Case of the Urban Development Corporations by Mo O'Toole
Understanding Fossils by Peter Doyle
Glacial Geology: Ice Sheets and Landforms by M R Bennett and N F Glasser
Environmental Science: the Natural Environment and Human Impact by Andrew Jackson and Julie Jackson
Landslide Recognition: Identification, Movement and Causes edited by R Dikau, D Brunsden, L Schrott and M-L Ibsen
Desert Aeolian Processes edited by Vatche P Tchakerian
Cartographic Design: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives edited by Clifford H Wood and C Peter Keller
People and Environment edited by Stephen Morse and Michael Stocking
Space and Time Scale Variability and Interdependences in Hydrological Processes edited by Reinder A Feddes     

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Summary Books reviewed in this article.
Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement by Andrew Rowell
The Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment edited by Riki Thérivel and Maria Rosário Partidário
Sustainability Indicators: A Report on the Project on Indicators of Sustainable Development edited by Bedrich Moldan, Suzanne Billharz and Robyn Matravers
Directions in Housing Policy edited by Peter Williams
The Atmosphere and Oceans: A Physical Introduction. Second edition by Neil Wells
Intelligent Environments: Spatial Aspects of the Information Revolution edited by Peter Droege
The Shopping Experience edited by Pasi Falk and Colin Campbell
World Soil. Third edition by E M Bridges
A Climate Modelling Primer. Second edition by K McGuffie and A Henderson-Sellers
Farms, Trees and Farmers: Responses to Agricultural Intensification edited by Michael Arnold and Peter Dewees
Forever England: Reflections on Race, Masculinity and Empire by Jonathan Rutherford
Innovations in GIS IV edited by Zarine Kemp
Regional Policy in Europe by Sergey S Artobolevskiy
Islam in Europe: The Politics of Religion and Community edited by Steven Vertovec and Ceri Peach     

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Books reviewed in this article.
Re-presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis edited by Anthony D King
Humanity and Environment: A Cultural Ecology by Ian G Simmons
The Determinants of Small Business Growth by Richard Barkham, Graham Gudgin, Mark Hart and Eric Hanvey
Cartography: Visualization of Spatial Data by Menno-Jan Kraak and Ferjan Ormeling
A shrinking world? Global Unevenness and Inequality edited by John Allen and Chris Hamnett
The Joint School Story edited by W G V Balchin     

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Dangerous Crossroads by George Lipsitz
Global Change and the Irish Environment edited by John Sweeney
Changing Forms of Employment: Organisations, Skills and Gender edited by Rosemary Crompton, Duncan Gallie and Kate Purcell
The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) by Arthur P Cracknell
Local and Global: Management of Cities in the Information Age by Jordi Borja and Manuel Castells , with Mireila Belil and Chris Benner
Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter edited by Daniel Miller
Regional Development Agencies in Europe edited by Henrik Halkier, Mike Danson and Charlotte Damborg
Rethinking the Region by John Allen, Doreen Massey and Allan Cochrane , with Julie Charlesworth, Gill Court, Nick Henry and Phil Sarre     

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Summary Books reviewed in this article.
Gender Transformations by Sylvia Walby
The Rural Economy and the British Countryside edited by Paul Allanson and Martin Whitby
Coherent Flow Structures in Open Channels edited by Phillip J Ashworth, Sean J Bennett, lames L Best and Stuart J McLelland
Living the Global City: Globalisation as a Local Process edited by John Eade
Organising for Neighbourhood Development: A Comparative Study of Community Based Development Organisations. Second edition by Alan Twelvetrees
Resources, Society and Environmental Management by Gareth Jones and Graham Hollier
Questions of Cultural Identity edited by Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay
Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective edited by Brian llbery, Quentin Chiotti and Timothy Rickard
Caves: Processes, Development and Management by David Cillieson
Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality by Richard G Wilkinson
Gender, Work and Tourism edited by M Thea Sinclair
Functional Roles of Biodiversity: A Global Perspective by Harold A Mooney, J Hall Cushman, Ernesto Medina, Osvaldo E Sala and Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Globalisation and Agri-Food Restructuring: Perspectives from the Australasia Region edited by David Burch, Roy E Rickson and Geoffrey Lawrence
Innovation, Networks and Learning Regions? edited by James Simmie
Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands edited by David S G Thomas
Geography and Transition in the Post-Soviet Republics edited by Michael J Bradshaw
Restructuring Networks in Post-Socialism: Legacies, Linkages, and Localities edited by Gernot G rabher and David Stark
Sustainability and Environmental Economics: An Alternative Text by John Bowers
Canada and the Global Economy: The Geography of Structural and Technological Change edited by John N H Britton
River Channel Restoration: Guiding Principles for Sustainable Projects edited by Andrew Brookes and F Douglas Shields     

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Book reviews in this article:
Fashion as Communication by Malcolm Barnard
Accident and Design: Contemporary Debates in Risk Management edited by Christopher Hood and David K C Jones
Buy this Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption edited by Mica Nava, Andrew Blake, Ian MacRury, Barry Richards
Future Nature: A Vision for Conservation by W M Adams
Reconstructing the Balkans: A Geography of the New Southeast Europe edited by Derek Hall and Darrick Danta
Sustaining the Soil: Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Africa edited by Chris Reij, Ian Scoones and Camilla Toulmin
The Location of Culture by Homi K Bhabha
The Environment for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards that Threaten Children and their Parents by David Satterthwaite, Roger Hart, Caren Levy, Diana Mitlin, David Ross, Jac Smit and Carolyn Stephens
The Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand by Andrew Sturman and Nigel Tapper
Climate Change and Human Society by Ian Whyte     

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Book reviews in this article:
A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing by Hugh Barton and Noel Bruder
Soils: a New Global View by T R Paton, G S Humphreys and P B Mitchell
Health and societies: changing perspectives by Sarah Curtis and Ann Taket
The global commons: a regime analysis by John Vogler
New Uncertainty Concepts in Hydrology and Water Resources by Zbigniew W Kundzewicz
Ethnicity and development: geographical perspectives edited by Denis Dwyer and David Drakakis-Smith
An enlarged Europe: regions in competition? edited by Sally Hardy, Mark Hart, Louis Albrechts and Anastasios Katos
From the margins to the centre: cultural production and consumption in the post-industrial city edited by Justin O'Connor and Derek Wynne
Plans, Pragmatism and People: the legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities by R Anthony French
Politics, Geography and 'Political Geography': A Critical Perspective by Joe Painter
GIS and Organisations: How effective are GIS in practice? by Heather Campbell and Ian Masser
Biology of Freshwater Pollution by C F Mason     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Alluvial Sedimentation:M. Marzo & C. Puigdefábregas (Eds) IAS Special Publication 17, 586 pp., 1993
Planet Earth - Cosmology, Geology, and the Evolution of Life and Environment:Cesare Emiliani Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 718 pp.
Tectonics and Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy:G. D. Williams & A. Dobb (Eds) Geological Society Special Publication No. 71, 1993     

GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS

JUSTICE, NATURE AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF DIFFERENCE. By David Harvey POSSESSED BY THE PAST: The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. By David Lowenthal . WILDERNESS AND THE CHANGING AMERICAN WEST. By Gundars Rudzitis . THE SPIRIT OF YELLOWSTONE: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park. By Judith L. Meyer STATE TRUST LANDS: History, Management, and Sustainable Use. By Jon A. Souder and Sally K. Fairfax HUMANATURE. By Peter Goin . HOMELAND TO HINTERLAND: The Changing World of the Red River Métis in the Nineteenth Century. By Gerhard J. Ens . CHANGING FORTUNES: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes. By Karl S. Zimmerer . KICKING OFF THE BOOTSTRAPS: Environment, Development, and Community Power in Puerto Rico. By Déborah Berman Santana . CENTRAL EUROPE: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. By Lonnie R. Johnson . URBAN REGIMES AND STRATEGIES: Building Europe's Central Executive District in Brussels. By Alex G. Papadopoulos . LIBERATION ECOLOGIES: Environment, Development, Social Movements. Edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts . COLONIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies, 1850–1960. By Michael Havinden and David Meredith . SETTLEMENT ECOLOGY: The Social and Spatial Organization of Kofyar Agriculture. By Glenn Davis Stone . THE WORK IN THE WORLD: Geographical Practice and the Written Word. By Michael R. Curry .     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Climatology: An Atmospheric Science . John J. Hidore and John E. Oliver.
Geomorphology in the Tropics: A Study of Weathering and Denudation in Low Latitudes . Michael F. Thomas.
Hydrology and Water Management in the Humid Tropics . Michael Bonell, Maynard M. Hufschmidt and John S. Gladwell.
The Environment and International Relations . John Vogler and Mark F. Imber (eds.).
Summary and Selected Papers of the SEAPOL Tri-Regional Conference . Kathleen I. Matics and Ted L. McDorman (eds.)
Trade, Aid and Global Interdependence . George Cho.
Communication and the "Third World" . Geoffrey Reeves.
East Asian Economies: Transformation and Challenges . Toshihiko Kawagoe and Sueo Sekiguchi (eds.).
Counting the Cost: Economic Growth and Environmental Change in Thailand . Jonathan Rigg (ed.).     

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Books reviewed in this article:
The Margin Fades: Geographical Itineraries in a World of Islands . E. Waddell and P.D. Nunn (eds.).
Environment and Housing in Third World Cities . Hamish Main and Stephen Wyn Williams (eds.).
Strategies for Sustainable Development: Local Agendas for the Southern Hemisphere . Michael Redclift and Colin Sage (eds.)
Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products . Mark J. Poltkin and Lisa M. Famolare (eds.)     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality. Lenore Manderson and France Liamputtong (eds.)
Local Cultures and the "New Asia": The State, Culture and Capitalism in Southeast Asia. C.J.W.-L. Wee (ed.)
Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development (2^nd edition). Jonathan Rigg
Human Impact on Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa. Michael Darkoh and Apollo Rwomire (eds.)     

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Books reviewed in this article.
The dynamics of industrial location: the factory, the firm and the production system by Roger Hayter
Tourism geography by Stephen Williams
Places through the body edited by Heidi J Nast and Steve Pile
Elemental geosystems. Second edition by Robert W Christopherson
Methods and techniques in human geography by Guy M Robinson
The geopolitics reader edited by Gearóid ÓTuathail, Simon Dalby and Paul Routledge
Winners and losers: home ownership in modern Britain by Chris Hamnett
Geographies of economies edited by Roger Lee and Jane Wills
Introduction to geomorphology by Frank Ahnert
Illegal cities: law and urban change in developing countries edited by Edesio Fernandas and Ann Varley
Social exclusion in European cities: processes, experiences and responses edited by Ali Madanipour, Göran Cars and Judith Allen
Yearbook of international co-operation on environment and development 1998/99 edited by Helge Ole Bergesen, Georg Parmann and Oystein B Thommessen
Images of the street: planning, identity and control in public space edited by Nicholas R Fyfe
Three generations, two genders, one world: women and men in a changing century compiled by Sylvia Chant and Cathy M c llwaine
Remaking reality: nature at the millennium edited by Bruce Braun and Noel Castree     

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Book reviews in this article:
Ecotourism: an introduction by David A Fennell
A feminist glossary of human geography edited by Linda McDowell and Joanne P Sharp
Money and the space economy edited by Ron Martin
The human mosaic—a thematic introduction to cultural geography by Terry G Jordan, Mona Domosh and Lester Rowntree
Shifting spaces: women, citizenship and migration within the European Union by Louise Ackers
Pre-industrial cities and technology edited by Colin Chant and David Goodman
The pre-industrial cities and technology reader edited by Colin Chant
Fantasy city: pleasure and profit in the postmodern metropolis by John Hannigan
The economic geography reader edited by John Bryson, Nick Henry, David Keeble and Ron Martin
John Constable's skies: a fusion of art and science by John E Thornes
Computer processing of remotely-sensed images: an introduction by Paul M Mather     

BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this article: Lob Trees in the Wilderness . Clifford and Isabel Ahlgren . Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing . T. D. Allan , ed. Sunbelt Cities: Politics and Growth Since World War II . Richard M. Bernard and Bradley R. Rice , eds. Legacy of Minneapolis: Preservation Amid Change . John R. Borchert , David Gebhard , David Lanegran , and Judith A. Martin . Bloomington, MN: Preparing a Historic Preservation Ordinance. Richard J. Roddewig . The Mountains of Northeastern Tasmania, A Study of Alpine Geomorphology . Nel Caine . Introductory Cartography . John Campbell . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Changing Climate . Manual of Remote Sensing, Second Edition . 2 Vols. Robert N. Colwell , ed.-in-chief; David S. Simonett and John E. Estes , vol. eds. Remote Sensing in Meteorology, Oceanography and Hydrology . A. P. Cracknell , ed. Multidimensional Scaling . Mark L. Davison . Environmental Karst . Percy H. Dougherty , ed. The Urban Environment . Ian Douglas . Geomorphology of Europe . Clifford Embleton , ed. An Introduction to South Asia . B. H. Farmer . Great Geological Controversies . A. Hallam . Hazardous Waste Management: In Whose Backyard? Michalann Harthill , ed. Energy for Subsistence . Margaret Haswell . Perspective on Ratzel's Political Geography . James M. Hunter . Economic Deposits and their Tectonic Setting . Charles S. Hutchison . Energy Risk Assessment . Herbert Inhaber . Discovering the Vernacular Landscape . John Brinckerhoff Jackson . Climate and Energy Systems: A Review of Their Interactions . Jill Jäger . Dilemmas in Regional Policy . Antoni Kuklinski and J. G. Lambooy , eds. California Farmland: A History of Large Agricultural Landholdings . Ellen Liebman . The Spatial Organization of New Land Settlement in Latin America . Jacob O. Maos . Dark Continent: Africa as Seen by Americans . Michael McCarthy . Westport, CT: Climatology: An Introduction . John E. Oliver and John J. Hidore . Columbus, OH: The Geography of Warfare . Patrick O'Sullivan and Jesse W. Miller . The Expanding City. Essays in Honour of Professor Jean Gottmann . John Patten , ed. Scotland's Environment During the Last 30,000 Years . Robert J. Price . Integrated Urban Models . S. H. Putman . Development and the Environmental Crisis: Red or Green Alternatives? Michael Redclift .     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Hillslope Processes. Binghamton Symposia in Geomorphology International Series: 16. Athol D. Abrahams , ed. The Atlas of Central America and the Caribbean. The Diagram Group . The Cultural Atlas of Islam. Isma'il R. al Faruqi and Lois Lamaya'al Faruqi . Atlas of Israel Contemporary Africa: Development, Culture and the State. Morag Bell . Fundamentals of Physical Geography. David Briggs and Peter Smithson . The Bicentennial Census: New Directions for Methodology in 1990. Constance F. Citro and Michael L. Cohen , eds . World Patterns of Modern Urban Change: Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris. Michael P. Conzen , ed . New Directions for Agriculture and Agricultural Research: Neglected Dimensions and Emerging Alternatives. Kenneth A. Dahlberg , ed . Water Resources Atlas of Florida. E.A. Fernald and D.J. Patton , eds . Landscape Ecology. R.T.T. Forman and M. Godron . The Myth of the North American City: Continentalism Challenged. Michael Goldberg and John Mercer . The Permafrost Environment. Stuart A. Harris . Climate and Circulation of the Tropics. Stefan Hastenrath . The Island of South Georgia. Robert Headland . The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1950. Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees . Bombay in Transition: The Growth and Social Ecology of a Colonial City, 1889–1980. Meera Kosambi . Plant Closings; Public or Private Choices? Richard B. McKenzie , ed . Malaysia: Tradition, Modernity and Islam. R.S. Milne and Diane K. Mauzy . Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario. Dianne Newell . The Maritime Political Boundaries of the World. J.R.V. Prescott . Tall Office Buildings in the United States. James W. Pygman and Richard Kateley (Real Estate Research Corporation). Technology, Regions, and Policy. John Rees , ed . The United States and the Regional Organization of Asia and the Pacific: 1965-1985. W.W. Rostow . Renewable Energy: Progress, Prospects. Stephen W. Sawyer Wisconsin Foundations. Gwen Schultz . Dwelling, Place and Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World. David Seamon and Robert Mugerauer , eds . Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context. Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F.J. Artibise , eds . Small Firms in Regional Economic Development: Britain, Ireland and the United States. D. J. Storey , ed . Mathematical Methods in Human Geography and Planning. A. G. Wilson and R. J. Bennett . El Niño North: Niño Effects on the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. W. S. Wooster and D. L. Fluharty , eds . The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry. Craig ZumBrunnen and Jeffrey Osleeb .     

Book Reviews

Solar Plasma, Geomagnetism and Aurora Sydney Chapman
Lunar Geology Gilbert Fielder
Seismic Waves: Radiation, Transmission, Attenuation J. E. White
Structural Geology (International Series in the Earth Sciences) L. U. de Sitter
Soviet Antarctic Expedition: Information Bulletin     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Claude Cabanne and Elena Tchistiakova, La Russie: Perspectives economiques et sociales.
Ellen E. Wohl, Virtual Rivers: Lessons from the Mountain Rivers of the Colorado Front Range.
Deborah Sporton and David S. G. Thomas (eds), Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments: A Contribution to Global Debates.
Hugh Brammer, How to Help Small Farmers in Bangladesh.
Kerry Woodcock, Changing Roles in Natural Forest Management: Stakeholders' Roles in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania.
Nichola Geeson, Jane Brandt and John B. Thornes (eds), Mediterranean Desertification: A Mosaic of Processes and Responses.
Andrew Warren (ed.), European Commission Community Research: Wind Erosion on Agricultural Land in Europe – Research Results for Land Managers.
Jap Steenvoorden, Frans Cllaessen and Jap Willems (eds), Agricultural Effects on Ground and Surface Waters: Research at the Edge of Science and Society.
Owain Jones and Paul Cloke, Tree Cultures: The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place.
H. Bulkeley and M. M. Betsill, Cities and Climate Change: Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Governance.
Gottfried Konecny, Geoinformation: Remote Sensing, Photogrammetry and Geographic Information Systems.
Matt Duckham, Michael F. Goodchild and Michael F. Worboys (eds), Foundations of Geographic Information Science.
Bent Flyvbjerg, Megaprojects and Risk.
Charles Warren, Managing Scotland's Environment.
Jonathan Murdoch and Simone Abrams, Rationalities of Planning: Development Versus Envir-onment in Planning for Housing.
Yvonne Rydin and Andy Thornley (eds), Planning in the UK: Agendas for the New Millennium.
Folke Snickars, Brita Olerup and Lars Olerup Persson (eds), Reshaping Regional Planning: A Northern Perspective.
Robert J. Allison (ed.), Applied Geomorphology.     

Book Reviews

Committee on Protection and Management of Pacific Northwest Anadromous Salmonids Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest Cook, Ian G; Doel, Marcus A. and Li, Rex (eds.) Fragmented Asia: Regional Integration and National Disintegration in Pacific Asia Crush, Jonathan Power of Development de Blij, H. J., and Muller, Peter O. Physical Geography of the Global Environment Hayward, David J. International Trade and Regional Economies: The Impacts of European Integration on the United States Kennedy, Michael The Global Positioning System and GIS: An Introduction Lowe, Philip; Marsden, Terry and Whatmore, Sarah (eds) Regulating Agriculture Marsden, Terry; Lowe, Philip and Whatmore, Sarah (eds) Labour and Locality: Uneven Development and the Rural Labour Process Marsden, Terry; Lowe, Philip and Whatmore, Sarah (eds) Rural Restructuring: Global Processes and Their Responses Whatmore, Sarah; Marsden, Terry and Lowe, Philip (eds) Gender and Rurality Whatmore, Sarah; Marsden, Terry and Lowe, Philip (eds) Rural Enterprise: Shifting Perspectives on Small-Scale Production Martopo, Sugeng and Mitchell, Bruce (eds) Bali: Balancing Environment, Economy and Culture Ould-Mey, Mohameden Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Carrot and the Stick in Mauritania Redclift, Michael and Benton, Ted (eds) Social Theory and the Global Environment Thomas–Slayter, Barbara and Rocheleau, Dianne Gender, Environment, and Development in Kenya: A Grassroots Perspective Wallach, Bret Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development Wennberg, John E. Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care Wilson, David and Huff, James O. (eds) Marginalized Places and Populations: A Structurationist Agenda     

Reviews

THE DICTIONARY OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY edited by R. J. Johnston. 20 x 13 cm, xix and 411 pages. Blackwell: Oxford 1983 (ISBN 0 631 13465 4) $A13.95 (limp).

THE GEOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE POWER edited by Michael Taylor. 22 x 14 cm, ix and 230 pages. Croom Helm Australia: Sydney 1984 (ISBN 0 949614 06 8) $A24.95 (cloth).

MULTINATIONALS AS MUTUAL INVADERS: Intra‐industry Direct Foreign Investment edited by A. Erdilek. 14 x 22 cm, xii and 217 pages. Croom Helm: London 1985 (ISBN 0 7099 0935 7) $A39.95 (cloth).

UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space by N. Smith. 15 x 22 cm, xv and 198 pages. Basil Blackwell: Oxford 1984 (ISBN 0 631 13564 2) $A59.95 (cloth); (ISBN 0 631 13685 1) $A18.95 (limp).

SOCIAL THEORY AND THE AUSTRALIAN CITY (Studies in Society No. 26) by L. Kilmartin, D. Thorns and T. Burke. 14 x 21 cm, ix and 218 pages. George Allen and Unwin: Sydney 1985 (ISBN 0 86861 405) $A24.95 (cloth); (ISBN 0 86861 413 0) $A12.95 (limp).

THE FUTURE OF URBAN FORM: The Impact of New Technology edited by J. Brotchie, P. Newton, P. Hall and P. Nijkamp. 14 x 22 cm, xiii and 374 pages. Croom Helm: London 1985 (ISBN 0 7099 3255 3) $A44.95 (cloth).