A National Network of Regional Leaders

Book Reviews

ARS reviews books of interest to regional practioners.

Civil Society: The Underpinnings of American Democracy
Author: Brian O'Connell (Tufts University, 1999)

Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival
Authors: Paul Grogan and Tony Proscio (WestView Press, 2000)

Creative Destruction
Authors: Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan (Doubleday, 2001)

Everybody's Business: Managing Risks and Opportunities in Today's Global Society
Authors: David Grayson and Adrian Hodges (DK Publishing, 2002)

Global City Regions: Trends, Theory and Policy
Editor: Allen Scott (Oxford, 2001)

Hope is Not a Method
Authors: Gordon Sullivan and Michale Harper (Random House, 1996)

In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work
Authors: Don Cohen and Laurence Prusak (Harvard Business School Press, 2001)

Knowledge-Value Cities in the Digital Age
Authors: Joel Kotkin and Ross C. Devol (Milken Institute, 2001)

The Magic of Dialogue: Transforming Conflict into Cooperation
Author: Daniel Yankelovich (Simon & Schuster, 1999)

On Leadership
Author: John W. Gardner (Free Press, 1990)

Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of The Historic Metropolis
Author: Anthony Tung (Clarkson Potter, 2001)

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
Authors: Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (HBS Press, 2002)

Reflections on Regionalism
Editor: Bruce Katz (Brookings Press, 1999)

Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together
Authors: Manuel Pastor Jr., Peter Dreier, J. Eugene Grigsby III, and Marta López-Garza (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)

The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape
Author: Joel Kotkin (Random House, 2000)

The Regional City
Authors: Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton (Island Press, 2001)

The Silicon Valley Edge: Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Editors: Chong-Moon Lee, William F. Miller, Marguerite-Gong Hancock and Henry Rowen (Stanford University Press, 2000)

The Social Life of Information
Authors: John Seely Brown, Paul Guguid (Harvard Business School Press, 2000)

The Tipping Point
Author: Malcom Gladwell (Little Brown, 2000)

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