THE CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO URBAN RENEWAL.

By Alfred P. Van Huyck'55 and Jack Hornung. West Trenton,N. J.: Chandler-Davis, 1962. 160 pp$3.00.

In this sprightly guide Alfred P. Van Huyck (a prize exhibit of Dartmouth's interest in city planning and urban affairs and North Carolina's Master of City Planning Program) and his co-author Jack Hornung (lately of Harvard and Syracuse) have condensed the essential practical wisdom needed for urban renewal.

Conserving, rehabilitating, and redeveloping our messy urban areas both in large and small cities is a growing major industry, with 520 municipalities in business with over 1,100 projects and some billions of dollars spent or already allocated. Since a major portion of the necessary governmental funds is received as grants from the Urban Renewal Administrator of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, the program is understandably popular in astute city halls. Moreover, for every single government dollar some ten, perhaps more, private investment dollars are gerferated; all of this makes obvious to the business community that in addition to the civic, aesthetic, social values involved, a splendid opportunity is offered to make money.

The two authors, aided and abetted by various local, state, and federal agencies, obviously speak from ample practical experience and give clear, precise instructions on the initial steps in renewal undertakings and the initial approaches to federal agencies, moving on to problems of staffing the local public agency, financing, citizen participation, planning, land acquisition, etc. In conclusion they strongly counsel a longrange community renewal program with projects listed in order of priority for a complete refurbishing of the local urban scene.

This guide will be used in Soc. 40 "An Introduction to City Planning and Urban Studies" here and should prove an invaluable primer to local government and to all citizens both professionally and amateurly concerned with their home city.