Page 6 RAIN October 1978 LAND Current Demographic'Changes in Regions of the 'United States, Peter A. Morrison, Rand Paper Series No. P-6000, Nov. 1977, 37 pp.; $3.00 (send payment with order) from: ' Publications Dept. The Rand Corporatio11 1700 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90406 If you're curious where people have been moving to and why, or if you're about to move and are looking for still uncrowded parts of the country, you'll find this a fascinating guide to onceand-future Ecotopias. This is the first mapping and analysis, via a fine-tooth sieve, of national county-level data formed into 26 economic-cultural subregions by Calvin Beale at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, that dearly illustrates how migration has become a powerful influence in determining which areas of the nation grow and which do not. It's always a pleasure to see excellent, tech~ nical work explained without profes•- sional jargon and in a popular, c~nversational style that makes expertise less intimidating to the uninitiated. Rand has a number of inexpensive (about 9<.t/page) papers available to the public. Ask for their free annotated bibliography in the topic you're interested in. - LJ Windfalls for Wipeouts, Donald Hagman and Dean Misczynski, 1978, $23.95 from: • American Society of Plannjng Officials 1313 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Whenever a subway or freeway 1s built with our tax dollars, someone pockets the increase ·in \lalue of land near the exits and entrances, and the small businesses ~nd apartment renters that are forced out take frequently catastrophic losses. Many efforts have been made to figure out how to compensate the losses and recapture the windfall pr~fits made. This report covers such efforts in a number of countries and proposals for local and federal acti•ons in.the U.S. An outrageously expensive paperbackparticularly when its research was paid for by a 'HUD grant. -TB . The End ofthe Road, David Burwell and Mary Ann Wilner, 1977, $3.50 from: National Wildlife Federation 1412 16th Street N.W. Washington, DC 20036 or Environmental Action Foundation 1345 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washirtgt°.n, DC 20036 A citizen's handbook for .freewayfighting, planning transportation alternatives and understanding the labyrinthine maze of special interests and legislation that makes up our transportation policy. Lack real discussion of alternatives to transportation, but covers other alternative planning and financing, and details of organizing and court action against freeways. -TB "O Beautiful For Spacious Roada That Spread From Slum To Slum" from THE END OF THE ROAD Land Use Controls in the United States, National Resources Defense Council, 1977, $7.95 from: Dial Press ' 245 E. 47tp Street New York, NY 10017 A sourcebook on what means currently exist in the U.S. for controlling or influencing the use of land-laws and programs on various governmental levels, with specific discussion of how citizens can impact the development and application of those laws. -TB FORESTRY Forest Farming, J. Sholto Douglas and Robert A. de J. Hart, 1978, $8.95 from: Rodale Press Emmaus, PA 18049 When this book first came out in its 1976 British edition, we hailed it as an important new slant on world hunger problems as well as soil and water con- • servation. It still is. There are no details here, but it lays out the concept~al framework for the planting of food trees on otherwise unarable land. Reading it makes lights go on in you~ mind. . Thanks to Rodale for this ,easily available American edition-now if they could just get it out in paperback. -LdeM The DUMP HEAP (Diverse Unsung Miracle Plants for Healthy Evolution Among People), $S/year for four issues published coincidental with the equinoxes and solstices, from: Box 236 Lagunitas, CA-94938 DUMP HEAT 2, Summer 1978, focuses on Trees in Forests, Farms and Gardens. It includes a good list of Tree People," a national cross section of groups working on·food producing trees from ra,re food trees to dwarf fruit- and nutbearing trees. Also included is a tree bibliography and useful list of nurseries where dwarf and food producing root- ·stock is available. I am amazed as I l~}Ok through this 16-page journal that every important tree book that I've heard about or come across at RAIN is mentioned. This is an important resource for anyone interested in intensive care of fruit trees or food producing urban forestry. DUMP HEAP also sponsors,informal seminars. Some future issues_: solar shelters for plants and people, permaculture and land trusts. -LS Oakland Tree Task Force 1419 Bro~dway, Rm. 721 Oakland, CA 94612 The Oakland Tree Task Force is a great model of an ad hoc coalition of citizens working on urban reforestation. It's an important part of making where we are paradise. The OTTF and other street tree planting projects could now m·ove us a little closer to paradise by planting food and nut producing trees, rather than ornamentals. Then we'd have food in urban areas (where costs of, fresh seasonal fruit and nuts are practically putting these essential components of a healthy diet into a category of luxury items) and cleaner air; com-
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