Book reviews

Housing policy in Britain: a history. A. E. Holmans, Croom Helm, London, 1987. 489 pp, £30.00, ISBN 0 7099 3789 X Camillo Sitte, the birth of modern city planning. George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann-Collins, Rizzoli, New York, 1986 440 pp, ISBN 0 8478 0556 5 The organic city; urban definition and neighborhood organization, 1880-1920. Patricia Mooney Melvin, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 1987 227 pp, $25.00, ISBN 0 8131 1585 X Regional problems, problem regions, and public policy in the United Kingdom. P. J. Damesick and P. A. Wood (eds), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987. 275 pp, £29.50, (hardback), £9.95 (paperback), ISBN 0 19 823257 8 and 0 19 823256 X Planning in Eastern Europe. Andrew H. Dawson (ed.), London, Croom Helm, 1986. 348 pp, price £25, ISBN 0 7099 0863 6 Sir Banister Fletcher's 'A history of architecture'. John Musgrove (ed.), Butterworth Scientific, Guildford, 1987. 1621 pp, £48.00, ISBN 0 408 01587 X British social reform and German precedents. The case of social insurance 1880-1914. E. P. Hennock, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987. 243 pp, £25.00, ISBN 0 19 820127 3 The heritage industry. Britain in a climate of decline. Robert Hewison, Methuen Paperback, London, 1987. 160 pp, £6.95, ISBN 0 413 16110 2 The new environmental age. Max Nicholson, University Press, Cambridge, 1987. 232 pp, £15.00 ($27.95), ISBN 0 521 33522 1 Property before people. The management of twentieth-century council housing. Anne Power, Allen and Unwin, 1987. 268 pp, £30.00 hardback, £9.95 paperback, ISBN 0 04 350070 6 Sustainable development. Exploring the contradictions. Michael Redclift, Methuen, London, 1987. 221 pp, £7.95, ISBN 0 416 90250 2 The rise of the community builders: the American real estate industry and urban land planning. Marc A. Weiss, Columbia University Press, New York, 1987. 228 pp, $30.00, ISBN 0 231 06504 3 Urban planning for Latin America: the challenge of metropolitan growth. Francis Violich, with Robert Daughters, A. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Book, Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, Boston, 1987. 435 pp, $40.00, ISBN 0 89946 213 8 Planning: rethinking Ciudad Guayana. Lisa Peattie, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1987. 174 pp, $26.00, ISBN 0 472 10085 8 (cloth) $13.95 ISBN 0 472 08069 5 (paper) La crise des réseaux d'infrastructure; le cas de Buenos Aires. G Dupuy (ed.), LATTS, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Université Paris Val de Marne, 1987. 297 pp. Urban transportation planning in the United States; an histo