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SUBURB: NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY IN FOREST PARK, OHIO, 1935-1976

with the planning and establishment of a naturalized landscape. Included are step-by-step explanations and illustrations of site analysis, the drawing of a plan of existing conditions, the planning for specific human activities on the site, and the completion of a general site plan that identifies appropriate plant communities and proposes and locates appropriate facilities for the required activities. In this section, had the spatial and pathway design considerations preceded the considerations of color and texture, rather than after those details, the text would have been more helpful. This criticism, however, is not meant to question the importance directed toward aesthetics, but to reveal that aesthetics involves a great deal more than merely the visual aspects the authors discuss. Also described and illustrated in detail in Part Three are open, semishaded, shaded, freshwater wetland, and edge or transitional landscapes. As such, this is the most profusely illustrated part of the book, with many of the details and panoramas of natural and human-designed landscapes in color. The pages of colored photographs are especially beautiful and explanatory, although no image in the text is as large or as inspiring as the one on the book’s front cover. Also, the numbers and notations referring to the colored plates are inconsistently located and difficult to read. Unfortunately, many of the black-and-white photographs in the text are small, fuzzy, and gray, and too many of the plan-illustrations are superfluous. Part Four includes numerous examples of private, public, and corporate landscapes. Each item is described and illustrated, and each step, from site analysis to the establishment of species, is discussed. Among the book’s most helpful and instructional sources of information are the detailed lists of plant species that are best adapted to various habitats, where the seeds and plants are available, how and when they may be established, and what the alternative techniques are for their management, i.e., mowing, burning, etc. In the appendices are extensive lists of species representative of a dozen major plant communities, and there is a list of the parks, preserves, arboretums, and nature centers one can visit in the above-mentioned areas of Canada and America. There also are listings of additional reading material at the close of each chapter. Many of the references include recent and "old reliable" sources for planting and design. The wide variety of subjects and the large number of highly esteemed authors should be of great bibliographic value to any student or professional landscape designer. According to John Diekelmann and Robert Schuster, Natural Landscaping is a guide for landscape designers. However, the book is more than just a guide, as the authors emphasize the two economic and aesthetic advantages that "natural landscape design" seems to have over the conventional styles of landscaping that still are commonly practiced. The first advantage is the reduction of maintenance costs in relation to mowing, watering, weeding, cultivating, fertilizing, replacing materials, and controlling disease, among others. The second benefit is the enjoyment to be found in the beauty of a naturalized landscape-its subtle, intricate richness and the variety of its forms, colors, and seasonal aspects. As for the text itself, the book is sensitively written and full of details. The use of numerous examples assures the reader of the authors’ experience in the field and of their sincere desire to share an enthusiasm and expertise with others. Natural Landscaping should be especially helpful and inspirational to designers and clients alike. Robert W. Dyas is Distinguished Professor of Design and Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa 50011. SUBURB: NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY IN FOREST PARK, OHIO, 1935-1976, by Zane L. Miller. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1981. xxi + 263 pages, tables, plans, photographs, index, bibliography, $18.50, clothbound.