Reviews of: NEW URBAN NEWS newsletter: Herbert Muschamp, architecture critic for the New York Times and frequent critic of the New Urbanism has written, "The Congress for the New Urbanism is the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era." As evidence of the New Urbanism's coming of age, it now has its own newsletter, New Urban News. The newsletter represents an all-purpose information source on the topic, primarily aimed at practitioners: developers, planners, architects, elected officials, and others involved in urban planning and real estate development.; ECOLOGICAL DESIGN: Embracing slime molds as teachers and role models may give humankind a chance, according to Ecological Design. In this work, architect Sim Van der Ryn and complex systems specialist Stuart Cowan look to ecological models for ways our prodigal species can more successfully interact with a planet showing the strains of supporting our current ways of life. With real life examples and contemplative prose, the authors demonstrate how an ecologically-based way of thinking can sprout environmentally- and economically-sustainable designs for systems including places, technologies, and organizations.