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WRITING LOS ANGELES: A LITERARY ANTHOLOGY , Edited by David L. Ulin, New York, Library of Urban America, 2002, [Forthcoming, December 2004] Journal of Urban Technology

CINEMA AND THE CITY, Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context, Edited by Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice, Blackwell Publishers, Ltd. Oxford, 2001, 280pp Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 10, No. 2, August 2003, Pp. 101-3

PLANNING FOR A BETTER URBAN ENVIRONMENT IN ASIA, Anthony Gar-On Yeh and Mee Kam Ng, Eds. (Burlington, Vermont; Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2000), Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 9. No. 1, April 2002, Pp. 128-132

THE JAPANESE CITY , P.P. Karan and Kristin Stapelton, Editors,   (University of Kentucky Press, Lexington KY, 1997)   250pp. Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 6, No. 2, August 1999, Pp. 109-111

URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY , by David Clark (Routledge, London, 1996) 194pp. Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 5, No. 3, Dec. 1998, Pp. 82-84

THE CINEMATIC CITY , David B. Clarke, Ed., (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), Journal of the American Planning Association., Vol. 64. No.2,   Spring 1998, Pp.254-255

DIRECTION OF CITIES, by John Guinther   (New York: Viking, 1997).   Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 4, No. 3, December 1997, Pp. 97-99

SOME CITIES ,   by Victor Burgin   (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol 17, No. 1, Fall 1997, Pp. 109-11,

CITY OF BITS, by William J. Mitchell (Cambridge:   MIT Press, 1995), in Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 3, No. 1, Fall 1995, Pp. 111-13

CIUDADES INTERMEDIAS EN MEXICO: UN MECHANISMO DE PARTICIPATION CORRESPONSABLE, by Arturo de Las Fuentas Hernandez   (INAP; Mexico City, 1994), reviewed in San Diego American Planning Association Planning Journal , Jan 1995,   Pp. 3, 6.

"The Origins of Consciousness in the BiCoastal Mind,"   memoir-review of EAST COAST / WEST COAST, by Patrick   Douglas, San Diego Writers' Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, July   1991, Pp. 36-39.

THE EXPERIENCE OF PLACE,  by Tony Hiss, The San Diego Evening Tribune, Nov 30, 1990, Pp. C-1, 14

MAKING PEACE WITH THE PLANET, by Barry Commoner, The San Diego Tribune, April 20, 1990, Pp. C-3, C-20

DISAPPEARING THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT: Culture and Technology in  the Twentieth Century, O.B. Hardison, The San Diego Tribune, January 12, 1990, pp. C-3, C-18

THE GHETTO OF VENICE, Riccardo Calimani, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 54, No. 3, Summer 1988, Pp. 400-1

IMAGINING TOMORROW : History, Technology and the American Future,  by  Joseph J. Corn, Ed., Journal of the American Planning Association , Vol. 54, No. 2, Spring 1988

METROPOLIS: 1890 - 1940, by Anthony Sutcliffe, Ed., Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 52, No. 4, Autumn 1986

CITIES OF THE MIND:  Images and Themes of the City in the Social Sciences,   Rodwin and Hollister, Eds., Journal of the American Planning Association , Vol. 51, No. 4, Autumn 1985, 531-532.

"Banfield on 'Original Sin,'" a review of THE UNHEAVENLY CITY, San Diego Section AIP Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 4, April 1971.