Book notes
Engaging our readers in preparing book notes
Our Book Notes section has short descriptions of books, papers and reports that we have prepared on all subjects relevant to urban issues. These are summaries rather than reviews. These go into the Book Notes online database that contains all Book Notes since our 1993 editions. It has facilities for searching by author, title, key word, city or country.
As an experiment, we are opening this to our readers so it can draw on a wider pool of knowledge. So we invite you to send us short summaries of new publications you have read that you found interesting – and relevant to urban issues. Authors may submit summaries too, but not promotional material. We welcome your submission on relevant publications published within the last two years. This includes English-language Book Notes and English summaries of publications in Spanish, French or Portuguese. You will be listed as the author of the summary.
If you would like to submit a Book Note, please search the database on this page to ensure that the publication has not already been covered. Please specify the title, author, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN (if applicable). For the description, between one and six paragraphs is sufficient. Book Notes can be sent to Jenny.Peebles@iied.org
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THIS VOLUME IS an outcome of a study carried out and funded by the Private Sector Advisory Services Department of the World Bank and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, with additional support from the Japanese government.
This book presents the case for an alternative strategy to develop Dharavi – that works with and supports its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants and tens of thousands of enterprises.
This is the product of an in-depth documentation of two urban development pilot projects in Muntinlupa City and Quezon City, Philippines.
Frontiers, in one interpretation, represent the edge of civilized life, to be pushed back to incorporate the “uncivilized”. In a similar manner, neoliberalism has continuously extended the frontiers of the market for embracing the urban realm.
THIS IS NOT a conventional book on China. Although it has many detailed chapters by a range of authors, these are within a volume that is dominated by photographs and graphics – most of them focusing on urban areas.
The modern concept of urban design grew out of major mid-twentieth century concerns, which were urban sprawl and declining inner-city areas. Pioneer urban designers in the 1950s struggled to find common ground among the design disciplines, i.e.
THIS BOOK, INITIALLY prepared as an information document for the 1997 session of the United Nations Commission on Human Settlements, focuses on urban children's legal right to an adequate standard of living.
THE PROFOUND CHANGES evident in cities in response to the globalizing economy are the subject of multi-disciplinary and multi-regional analysis in this book.
THIS BOOK IS a collection of papers which explore the urban transformation of regions that contain over 80 per cent of the Third World’s population.
THIS BOOK IS based on papers presented at the international workshop Mega-urbanization in Asia and Europe: Directors of Urban Change in a Comparative Perspective, held in Leiden in December 2002.