Book reviews

Land use planning and the mediation of urban change: the British planning system in practice. Patsy Healey, Paul McNamara, Martin Elson and Andrew Doak, University Press, Cambridge, 1988. 295 pp, £30, ISBN 0 521 30144 0. The making of classical Edinburgh, 1750-1840. A. J. Youngson, University Press, Edinburgh, 1988. 327 pp, £14.95, ISBN 0 85224 576 9. How Tokyo grows. Land development and planning on the metropolitan fringe. Michael Hebbert and Norihiro Nakai, Suntory Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 1988. 138 pp, ISBN 0 85328 105 X. Economics in urban conservation. Nathanial Lichfield, University Press, Cambridge, 1989. 361 pp, £35.00 ($54.00), ISBN 0 521 32851 9. Cities of tomorrow. An intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century. Peter Hall, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988. 473 pp, £25.00, ISBN 0 631 13444 1. London 2001. Peter Hall, London, Unwin Hyman, 1989. 226 pp, £17.95, ISBN 0 04 44516 X. The geography of interwar Britain: the State and uneven development. Stephen V. Ward, Routledge, London, 1988. 260 pp, £30,00, ISBN 0 415 00460 8. Ils ont construit New York. Histoire de la metropole au XIXe siecle. Clara Cardia, Geneva, Georg Editeur SA, 1987. 239pp, ISBN 2 8257 01149 1. Siedeln in der Not: Umbruch von Wohnungspolitik und Siedlungsbau am Ende der Weimarer Republik. Tilman Harlander, Katrin Hater and Franz Meiers, Hamburg, Christians Verlag, 1988. 353pp, ISBN 3 7672 1053 3. Stadtsanierung im Dritten Reich, dargestellt an ausgewählten Beispielen. Ursula von Petz, Dortmunder Beiträge zur Raumplanung, Band 45, Dortmund, 1987 (Distributor : Rolf Froessler, Dortmunder Vertrieb für Baund Planungs - literatur, Gutenbergstrasse 59, 4600 Dormund 1.). 200pp, Dm 26.00, ISBN 3 88211 056 2. Creating Chigago's North Shore: a suburban history. Michael H. Ebner, University Press, Chicago, 1988. 338pp, $29.95, ISBN 0 226 18205 3. Wrecking a region. State policies, party politics, and regional change in North East England. R. Hudson, London, Pion (Studies in Society and Space series), 1989. 433pp, £49.50, $95.00, ISBN 0 85086 125 X. The New Deal in the Urban South. Douglas L. Smith, Louisiana State University Press, 1988. 287pp, $29.95, ISBN 0 8071 1394 8. Planned to death. The annihilation of a place called Howendyke. J. Douglas Porteous, University Press, Manchester, 1989. 254pp, £35.00, ISBN 0 7190 2831 0. Planning. The Irish experience, 1920-