BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885–1941 , by Philip Scranton.
Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century , edited by Lou Ferleger.
Urban Relocation in Archaic and Classical Greece: Flight and Consolidation , by Nancy H. Demand.
The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology, and Industrial Growth , by Michael Storper and Richard Walker.
The Isolated City State: An Economic Geography of Urban Spatial Structure , by Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou.
Post-Industrial Philadelphia: Structural Changes in the Metropolitan Economy , by William J. Stull and Janice Fanning Madden.
The Location of Jobs in a Developing Metropolis: Patterns of Growth in Bogota and Cali, Columbia , by Kyu Sik Lee.
The Economics of Housing Markets , by Richard F. Muth and Allen C. Goodman.
Geographical Information Systems for Urban and Regional Planning , edited by Henk J. Scholten and John C. H. Stillwell.
Spatial Energy Analysis , edited by Lars Lundqvist, Lars-Goran Mattsson, and Erik A. Eriksson.
Transportation for the Future , edited by David F. Batten and Roland Thord.
United States Railroad Policy: Uncle Sam at the Throttle , by Jeffrey Orenstein.
Transportation Service to Small Rural Communities: The Effects of Deregulation , by John F. Due, Benjamin J. Allen, Mary R. Kihl, and Michael R. Crum.
Bus Deregulation and Privatisation: An International Perspective , edited by John S. Dodgson and Neville Topham.
Service Industries in Regional Development , by William J. Coffey and James J. McRae.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Slow Plague: A Geography of the AIDS Pandemic , by Peter Gould.
Economic Adaptation: Alternatives for Nonmetropolitan Areas , edited by David L. BarMey.
The Rebirth of Urban Democracy , by Jeffrey M. Berry, Kent E. Portney, and Ken Thomson.
Economic Logistics: The Optimization of Spatial and Sectoral Resource, Production, and Distribution Systems , by Sten Thore.
Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Modeling, and Policy Evaluation , edited by Manfred M. Fischer and Peter Nijkamp.
Marketing Places: Attracting Investment, Industry and Tourism to Cities, States, and Nations , by Philip Kotler, Donald H. Haider, and Irving Rein.
The Language of Planning: Essays on the Origins and Ends of American Planning Thought , by Albert Z. Guttenberg.
Economic Aspects of German Unification: National and International Perspectives , edited by Paul J.J. Welfens.
Sustainable Development and Urban Form , edited by Michael Breheny.
Japanese Cities in the World Economy , edited by Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill.     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Australian Agriculture: Resource Development and Spatial Organization (Geography of World Agriculture, Vol. 9), by P eter S cott
Canadian Agriculture (Geography of World Agriculture, Vol. 10), by M.J. T roughton
Rural Settlement in an Urban World , by M ichael B unce
Kanada einfach. Die Bauern verlassen die Schweiz , by W erner C atrina
Politics, Geography and Behaviour , by R ichard M uir and R onan P addison
Political Studies from Spatial Perspectives: Anglo-American Essays on Political Geography , edited by A lan D. B urnett and P eter J. T aylor
Spatial Analysis, Industry and the Industrial Environment: Volume 2 - International Industrial Systems , edited by F.E.I. H amilton and G.J.R. L inge
Handbook of Snow: Principles, Processes, Management and Use , edited by D.M. G ray and D.H. M ale     

BOOK REVIEWS

A Marginal Economy? East Anglian Breckland in the Later Middle Ages , by Mark Bailey. Peripheralisation and Industrial Change , edited by G. J. R. Linge. Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics , by Nancy L. Stokey and Robert E. Lucas, Jr., with Edward C. Prescott. Facility Location Analysis: Theory and Applications , edited by François V. Louveaux, Martine Labbé, and Jacques-François Thisse. Expert Systems: Applications to Urban Planning , edited by Tschangho John Kim, Lyna L. Wiggins, and Jeff R. Wright. Modelling Urban Housing Market Dynamics , by L. J. G. Van Wissen and Annamarie Rima. Choice and Allocation Models for the Housing Market , by Jan Rouwendal. The Economic Value of Visibility , edited by George Tolley and Robert Fabian. Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Political Economy Approach , by A. Allan Schmid. Regional Economic Modeling in Theory and in Practice , by Curtis C. Harris, Jr. and Mehrzad Nadji. Integrated Multiregion Models for Policy Analysis: An Australian Perspective , by Christine Smith. Information Technology: Social and Spatial Perspectives , edited by Isao Orishimo, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, and Peter Nijkamp.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Urban Economic Theory: Land Use and City Size , by Masahisa Fujita.
Spatial Interaction Models: Formulations and Applications . by A. Stewart Fotheringham and Morton E. O'Kelly.
Frontiers of Input-Output Analysis , edited by Ronald E. Miller, Karen R. Polenske, and Adam Z. Rose.
Advances in Spatial Theory and Dynamics , edited by Åtke E. Andersson, David F. Battern, Börje Johansson, and Peter Nijkamp.
Regional Structural Change: Experience and Prospects in Two Mature Economies , edited by Lay Gibson and Robert J. Stimson.
Australian Regional Developments: Readings in Regional Experiences, Policies and Prospects , edited by Benjamin Higgins and Krzysztof Zagorski.
South Australian Manufacturing in Transition , edited by Trevor J. Mules.
Battling the Inland Sea: American Political Culture, Public Policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 , by Robert Kelly.
Pacific Visions: California Scientists and the Environment , 1850-1915, by Michael L. Smith.
America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy , by Helen F. Ladd and John Yinger.
Integrated Urban Systems Modelling: Theory and Applications , by Tschangho John Kim in association with Jeong Hyun Rho and Sunduck Suh.
Impacts of Industrial Robotics: Potential Effects on Labor and Costs within the Metalworking Industry , by Steven M. Miller.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
New Directions in Spatial Econometrics , edited by Luc Anselin and Raymond J.G.M. Florax.
Urban Travel Demand Modeling: From Individual Choices to General Equilibrium , by Norbert Oppenheim.
The Economic Growth of Singapore: Trade and Development in the Twentieth Century , by W. G. Huff.
Water in the Arab World: Perspectives and Prognoses , edited by Peter Rogers and Peter Lydon.
China Deconstructs: Politics, Trade and Regionalism , edited by David S. G. Goodman and Gerald Segal.
Technological Change, Economic Development and Space , edited by Cristoforo S. Bertuglia, Manfred M. Fischer, and Giorgio Preto.
Local and Regional Development During the 1990s Transition in Eastern Europe , edited by Markku Tykkyliiinen.
Territorial Competition in an Integrating Europe , edited by Paul Cheshire and Ian Gordon.
State Per-Capita Income Change Since 1950 Sharecropping's Collapse and Other Causes of Convergence , by Leonard F. Wheat and William H. Crown.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Geography: Towards a General Spatial Systems Approach , by William J. Coffey.
The Transformation of Urban Housing: The Experience of Upgrading in Cartagena, Colombia , by W. Paul Strassmann.
Dynamic Spatial Models , by Daniel A. Griffith and Ross D. Mackinnon (eds.).
Urban and Spatial Development in Mexico , by Ian Scott.
Human Settlement Systems: Spatial Patterns and Trends , by T. Kawashima and P. Korcelli (eds.).     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Place, Migration, and Development in the Third World: An Alternative View , by Lawrence A. Brown.
Migration and Labor Market Adjustment , edited by Jouke van Dijk, Hendrik H. Folmer, Henry W. Herzog, Jr., and Alan M. Schlottmann.
Quantitative Methods for Market-Oriented Economic Analysis over Space and Time , edited by Walter C. Labys, Takashi Takayama, and Noel D. Uri.
Chaos and Socio-Spatial Dynamics , by Dimitrios S. Dendrinos and Michael Sonis.
Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences , by Robert Haining.
Economic Restructuring of the American Midwest , edited by Richard D. Bingham and Randall W. Eberts.
An Empirical Assessment of Factors Shaping Regional Competitiveness in Problem Regions , by Commission of the European Communities.
Regional Development Processes and Policies , edited by William H. Berentsen, Darrick R. Danta, and Eta Daróczi.
Regional Studies and Rural Development , by Josef G. M. Hilhorst.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process , by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen.
Entropy in Urban and Regional Modeling , by A. G. Wilson.
An Introduction to Spectral Analysis , by J. N. Rayner.
Combinatorial Programming, Spatial Analysis and Planning , by Allen J. Scott.
Causal Models in the Social Sciences , by H. M. Blalock (ed.).
Mathematical Foundations of Systems Analysis , by R. H. Kupperman and H. A. Smith.
Optimal Patterns of Location , by Jan Serck-Hanssen.
Industrial Location: An Economic Geographical Analysis , by David M. Smith.
Industrial Location in the United States , by James C. Burrows, Charles E. Metcalf, and John B. Kaler.
The Urban Mosaic: Towards a Theory of Residential Differentiation , by Duncan Timms.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book review in this Article:
Urban Change and Renewal: The Paradox of Place , edited by Philip Garrahan and Paul Stewart.
Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study , by C. R. Whittaker.
New Visions for Metropolitan America , by Anthony Downs.
Technopolis: High-technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California , by Allen J. Scott.
Spatial Development in Indonesia , edited by Tschango John Kim, Gerrit Knaap, and Iwan J. his.
Going Private: The International Experience with Transport Privatization , by Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez and John R. Meyer.
A Billion Trips a Day: Tradition and Transition in European Travel Patterns , edited by Ilan Salomon, Piet Bovy, and Jean-Pierre Orfeuil.
Crisis on the Rio Grande: Poverty, Unemployment, and Economic Development on the Texas-Mexico Border , by Dianne Betts and Daniel J. Slottje, with Jesus Vargas Garcia.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Property Taxes and House Values: The Theory and Estimation of Intrajurisdictional Property Tax Capitalization , by John Yinger, Howard S. Bloom, Axel Borsch-Supan, and Helen F. Ladd.
Spatial Price Theory of Imperfect Competition , by Hiroshi Ohta.
Advanced Spatial Statistics , by Daniel A. Griffith.
Regional Economic Development: Essays in Honour of François Perroux , edited by Benjamin Higgins and Donald J. Savoie.
Recent Advances in Regional Economic Modelling , edited by Frank Harrigan and Peter McGregor.
State Policy Choices: The Wisconsin Experience , edited by Sheldon Danziger and John F. Witte.
Resource Development and Environmental Issues: Opportunities and Constraints in the Hunter Region, New South Wales , edited by A. J. Jakeman, P. K. Parker, J. Formby, and D. G. Day.
The Urbanization of the Third World , edited by Josef Gugler.
Indonesia: The Transmigration Program in Perspective , by the World Bank.
The Economic Geography of China , edited by Sun Jingzhi.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Social and Demographic Accounting , edited by Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and Moss Madden.
Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change , by William D. Nordhaus.
The South as an American Problem , edited by Larry J. Grffin and Don H. Doyle.
Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams , by Charles Rutheiser.
Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan , edited by Philip Shapira, Ian Masser, and David W. Edgington.
Beyond the Great Wall: Urban Form and Transformations on the Chinese Frontiers , by Piper Rae Gaubatz.
Community, Culture, and Economic Development: The Social Roots of Local Action , by Meredith Ramsay.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Remodelling Geography , edited by Bill Macmillan.
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory , by Edward W. Soja.
The Condition of Postmodernity An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change , by David Harvey.
Spatial Structures , by Martin J. Beckmann and Tönu Puu.
Advanced Transport and Spatial Systems Models: Applications to Korea , by Tschangho John Kim, in association with Sunduck Suh.
Travel Behaviour Research , edited by the International Association for Travel Behaviour.
The Evolution of Regional Economies: Entrepreneurship and Macroeconomic Change , by Luis Suarez-Villa.
Urban Problems in Western Europe , by Paul C. Cheshire and Dennis G. Hay.
The Human Geography of Eastern Europe , by David Turnock.
ECESIS: An Interregional Economic-Demographic Model of the United States , by Paul M. Beaumont.
Natural Landscape Amenities and Suburban Growth Metropolitan Chicago, 1970-1980 , by Christopher Mueller-Wille.
Evaluation Methods for Urban and Regional Plans: Essays in Memory of Morris Hill , edited by Daniel Shefer and Henk Voogd.
Region as a Socio-Environmental System: An Introduction to a Systemic Regional Geography , by Dov Nir.
Tourist Development , 2nd edition, by Douglas Pearce.
Tourism Analysis: A Handbook , by Stephen L. J. Smith.
The Community Tourism Industry Imperative: The Necessity, the Opportunity, Its Potential , by Uel Blank.     

REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS

Book reviewed in this article:
The Arctic: Choices for Peace and Security, A Public Inquiry , by THOMAS R. BERGER
An Historical Geography of Europe by N.J.G. POUNDS
Conflict and Change in the Countryside by GUY M. ROBINSON
Northern Hydrology: Canadian Perspectives edited BY T.D. PROWSE and C.S.L. OMMANNEY
Geography in America edited by GARY L. GAILE AND CORT J. WILLMOTT
Historical Atlas of Canada, Volume III: Addressing the Twentieth Century edited by DONALD KERR AND DERYCK W. HOLDSWORTH
The Isolated City State: An Economic Geography of Urban Spatial Structure by YORGOS Y. PAPAGEORGIOU
Industrial Transformation and Challenge in Australia and Canada edited by ROGER HAYTER and PETER D. WILDE     

BOOK NOTES

Western Canada since 1870: A Select Bibliography and Guide , by A lan F.J. A rtibise
Canadian Local Histories to 1950: A Bibliography. Ontario and the Canadian North, by W illiam F.E. M orley
Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Vol. I, edited by T.W. F reeman , M arquerita O ughton , and P hilippe P inchemel
Bibliography on Canadian Land Market Mechanisms and Land Systems Information, by R osalind L ambert and L aval L avallée
Canadian Bibliography of Urban and Regional Information System Activity, by K athleen L auder and L aval L avallée
Locational Analysis and Economic Geography, by P eter O. M uller
An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian Air Pollution Literature: Supplement, compiled by L eslie T. F oster and C hristopher J. S parrow
A Directory of Climate and Related Courses and Persons Interested in Climatology in Alberta, compiled by J ohn M. P owell
The Changing Fortunes of Marginal Regions, edited by P.G. S adler and G.A. M ac K ay
Theory and Practice in Regional Science, edited by I. M asser , Pion Ltd.
Space, Location and Regional Development, edited by M. C hatterji , Pion Ltd.
L'Avenir de I'Histoire et de la Geographie, sous la direction de L udger B eauregard
Population at Microscale, edited by L esek A. K osinski and J ohn W. W ebb
Information Technology and Urban Governance, edited by B arry S. W ellar     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Urban Dynamics: Designing an Integrated Model , edited by Cristoforo S. Bertuglia, Giorgio Leonardi, and Alan G. Wilson.
Spatial Choices and Processes , edited by Manfred M. Fischer, Peter Nijkamp, and Yorgos Y. Papageorgiou.
Housing Markets and Housing Institutions: An International Comparison , edited by Björn Hârsman and John M. Quigley.
Services and Metropolitan Development: International Perspectives , edited by Peter W. Daniels.
Regional Innovation and Decentralization: High Tech Industry and Government Policy , edited by Ulrich Hilpert.
Making a Middle Landscape , by Peter G. Rowe.
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World , by Sharon Zukin.
Geographic Dimensions of United States Social Policy , edited by Janet E. Kodras and John Paul Jones III.
Thirst for Growth Water Agencies as Hidden Government in California , by Robert Gottlieb and Margaret Fitz Simmons.
Regional and Sectoral Development in Mexico as Alternatives to Migration , edited by Sergio Dim-Briquets and Sidney Weintraub.
The High-Tech Potential: Economic Development in Rural America , by Amy K. Glasmeier.     

Book reviews

Books reviewed: Richard Baldwin, Rikard Forslid, Philippe Martin, Gianmarco Ottaviano, and Frederic Robert‐Nicoud, Economic Geography and Public Policy Richard K. Green and Stephen Malpezzi, A Primer on U.S. Housing Markets and Housing Policy Peter King, A Social Philosophy of Housing David Harvey, Paris: Capital of Modernity Henri Lefebvre, translated by Robert Bononno, The Urban Revolution Barry Boots, Atsuyuki Okabe, and Richard Thomas, Modelling Geographical Systems: Statistical and Computational Applications Jan Öhman and Kirsten Simonson, Voices from the North: New Trends in Nordic Human Geography Michael Keating, John Loughlin, and Kris Deschouwer, Culture, Institutions and Economic Development: A Study of Eight European Regions Gertrude Tumpel‐Gugerell and Peter Mooslechner, Economic Convergence and Divergence in Europe: Growth and Regional Development in an Enlarged European Union Andreas Faludi, European Spatial Planning Ron Martin and Philip S. Morrison, Geographies of Labour Market Inequality Bent Flyvbjerg, Nils Bruzelius, and Werner Rothengatter, Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff, Mega‐Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment Norman Walzer, The American Midwest: Managing Change in Rural Transition William M. Lewis Jr., Water and Climate in the Western United States Nives Dol?ak and Elinor Ostrom, The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptation Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development: Programme and Policy Recommendations Yeonwoo Lee, Schumpeterian Dynamics and Metropolitan‐Scale Productivity Fiorenza Belussi, Giorgio Gottardi, and Enzo Rullani, The Technological Evolution of Industrial Districts Daniel Griffith, Spatial Autocorrelation and Spatial Filtering: Gaining Understanding through Theory and Scientific Visualization Claire Freeman and Michelle Thompson‐Fawcett, Living Space: Towards Sustainable Settlements in New Zealand     

BOOK REVIEWS

Essays in Regional Economic Studies , by Manoranjan Dutta, Jessie C. Hartline, and Peter D. Loeb (eds.).
Spatial Statistics and Models, Theory and Decision Library, Vol. 40. by Gary L. Gaile and Cort J. Willmott (eds.)
Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions , by Ronald E. Miller and Peter D. Blair.
Spatial Divisions of Labor: Social Structures and the Geography of Production , by Doreen Massey.
Natural Resource Economics: Selected Papers , by S. V. Ciriacy-Wantrup, edited by Richard C. Bishop and Stephen O. Andersen.     

Reviews/Comptes rendus

Book reviewed in this article:
Recreational Land Use: Perspectives on Its Evolution in Canada , edited by G eoffrey W all and J ohn S. M arsh
Tourism: Economic, Physical and Social Impacts , by A lister M athieson and G eoffrey W all
The Rural Real Estate Market: Geographic Patterns of Structure and Change in an Urban Fringe Environment , by C hris B ryant
Environmental Aesthetics: Essays in Interpretation , edited by B arry S adler and A llen C arlson
Historical Understanding in Geography: An Idealist Approach , by L eonard G uelke
Period and Place: Research Methods in Historical Geography , edited by A lan R.H. B aker and M ark B illinge     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article: Network Economics: A Variational Inequality Approach , by Anna Nagurney. Chinese Economic Planning and Input-Output Analysis , edited by Karen R. Polenske and Xikang Chen. Spatial Tessellations: Concepts and Applications of Voronoi Diagrams , by Atsuyuki Okabe, Barry Boots, and Kokichi Sugihara. Nonlinear Economic Dynamics , by Tönu Puu. Geomedical Systems: Intervention and Control , by Richard Thomas. Full Circles: Geographies of Women over the Life Course , edited by Cindi Katz and Janice Monk. The Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought , by Joseph J. Persky. Divided Cities: New York and London in the Contemporary World , edited by Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe. Regional Policy and Local Governments , edited by Gyula Horváth. Coastal Erosion: Has Retreat Sounded? by Rutherford H. Platt et al. Disease and Death in Early Colonial Mexico: Simulating Amerindian Depopulation , by Thomas M. Whitmore. Perspectives on Planning and Urban Development in Belgium , edited by Ashok K. Dutt and Frank J. Costa. Planning and Urban Growth in the Nordic Countries , edited by Thomas Hall. Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People , edited by Glen E. Lich. Transport, the Environment, and Economic Policy , by Kenneth Button. The Changing Location of the Automobile Industry: A Geographical Analysis , by James M. Rubenstein.