Every page of Johanna Gibbons and Bernard Oberholzer's Urban Streetscapes: A Workbook for Designers features one or more black and white photographs or hand-drawn examples of urban design elements from different cultures, styles, periods, and contexts. Drawings often feature people, reminding us that finished projects must suit the user.

With more pictures than text, the book presents what the authors term "a coordinated approach." Case studies from Europe, North America, Australia, South Africa, and the Far East demonstrate appropriateness, spontaneity, durability, timelessness and historical contribution to the character of streetscape and townscape.

Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold, the paperback is available from the APA Planners Bookstore in Chicago: (312) 955-9100.