Book reviewed in this article:Regional Development Policy: A Case Study of Venezuela, by John Friedmann.Human Capital in Southern Development: 1939‐1963, by Marshall R. Colberg.Supply and Costs in the u. S. Petroleum Industry ‐ Two Econometric Studies, by Franklin M. Fisher.?Research and Education for Regional and Area Development, by Iowa State University Center for Agricultural and Economic Development.The Elderly in Older Urban Areas: Problems of Adaptation and the Effects of Relocation, by Paul L. Niebanck and John B. Pope.Regional Development and Planning: A Reader, edited by John Friedmann and William Alonso. Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1964, xviii + 722 pages, $9.75.Metropolitan Transportation: 1980, by the Comprehensive Planning Office, Port New Y