Book reviews

Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities. M. Southworth & E. Ben-Joseph. McGraw Hill, New York, 1996, £29.99, hbk, ISBN 0 07 059808 8 Public Space Public Life. Jan Gehl & Lars Genzøe. The Danish Architectural Press, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and School of Architectural Publishers, Copenhagen, 1996, Dkr 245 ISBN 87 7407 187 4 The Road that is Not a Road and the Open City, Ritoque, Chile. Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian. The Graham Foundation/MIT Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse, Cambridge, MA., 1996, US$17.50, ISBN 0 262 660997 Main Street Revisited: Time, Space and Image Building in Small-Town America. Richard V. Francaviglia. University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1996, 224 pp., US$39.95 hbk, ISBN 0 87745 542 2, US$17.95 pbk, ISBN 0 87745 543 0 Viewing Olmsted. P. Lambert (Ed). Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture and distributed by MIT Press, Montreal and Cambridge, MA 1996, 119 pp., price not stated, (CCA US$25.00, 108 pp. ISBN 0 9207785 58 1, MIT ISBN. 0 262 62116-9) World Cities in a World-System. P. L. Knox & P. J. Taylor (Eds). Cambridge University Press, 1995, US$64.95 hbk, ISBN 0521 481651 US$22.95 hbk, ISBN 0521 484707