Book reviews.

The worst street in North London. Campbell Bunk, Islington, between the wars. Jerry White, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul (History Workshop series), 1986 312 pp, £8.95, ISBN 0 7102 0700 X Property companies and the construction industry in Britain. Hedley Smyth, University Press, Cambridge, 1985 265pp, £25.00, ISBN 0 521 26512 6 Regional studies in Poland: experiences and prospects. Antoni Kuklinski (ed.), Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee for Space Economy and Regional Planning, Warsaw, 1986 380pp, ISBN 83 01 05536 7 New roles for old cities. Anglo—American policy perspectives on declining urban regions. Edgar A. Rose (ed.), Aldershot, Gower, 1986 236pp, £19.50, ISBN 0 566 05182 6 The invisible hand of planning, capitalism, social sciences and the State in the 1920s. Guy Alchon, Princeton University Press, 1985 252pp, $25.00, ISBN 0 691 04723 5 Ruskin and Bradford. An experiment in Victorian cultural history. Malcolm Hardman, Manchester University Press, 1986. 408 pp, £27.50, ISBN 0 7190 1765 3 Building the industrial city. Martin Doughty (ed.), Leicester University Press, 1986 212 pp, £27.50, ISBN 7185 1238 3 Deutsche Architekten. Biographische Verflechtungen 1900–1970. Werner Durth, Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden, 1986 448 pp, DM 78.00, ISBN 3 528 08705 6 Goodnight Campers! The history of the British holiday camp. Colin Ward and Dennis Hardy, Mansell (Alexandrine Press), London, 1986 177pp, £28.50 hb ISBN 0 7201 1835 2 £9.95 pb ISBN 0 7201 1836 0 Die Zukunft der Metropolen Paris—London—New York—Berlin. Karl Schwarz (ed.), Dietrich Reimer Verlag, Berlin, 1984 Vol. 1 Aufsätze, 563 pp, ISBN 37983 1017 3 Vol. 2 Katalog zur Ausstellung, 384 pp, ISBN 37983 1018 1 Vol. 3 Utopischer Ort Berlin (Historische Topographie), 174 pp, ISBN 37983 1018 X The history and conservation of shopping arcades. Margaret MacKeith, Mansell Publishing, London, 1986 174 pp, £36.50, ISBN 0 7201 1757 7 Chinese cities. The growth of the metropolis since 1949. Victor F. S. Sit (ed.), Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1985 239 pp, £18.00 (UK), ISBN 0 19 583746 0 The London property market in AD2000. Clive Darlow (ed.), Spon, London, 1986 155 pp, £24.00, ISBN 0 419 14100 6 Berlin's Housing Revolution. German Reform in the 1920s. Ronald Wiedenhoeft, UMI Research Press (Architecture and Urban Design), Ann Arbor, Michigan 1985 ISBN 0 8357 1705 4 (alk. paper) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]