Book reviewed in this article:

Butterworth, D. and Chance, J. C. 1981: Latin American urbanization.

Cherki, E. and Mehl, D. 1979: Les nouveaux embarras de Paris.

Cross, M. 1981: New firm formation and regional development.

Goldsmith, M. 1980: Politics, planning and the city.

King, A. D. editor, 1980: Buildings and society: essays on the social development of the built environment.

Krampen, M. 1979: Meaning in the urban environment.

Mingione, E. 1981: Social conflict and the city.

Musil, J. 1980: Urbanization in socialist countries.

Pallot, J. and Shaw, J. B. 1981: Planning in the Soviet Union.

Paris C. and Blackaby, B. 1979: Not much improvement: urban renewal policy in Birmingham.

Pelham, T. G. 1979: State land‐use planning and regulation.

Windsor, D. 1979: Fiscal zoning in suburban communities.

Rosenthal, D. B. editor, 1980: Urban revitalization. (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews, volume 18).

White, J. 1980: Rothschild Buildings: life in an East End tenement block 1887–1920.