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 is a new, updated and expanded edition of this accessible and insightful history of Buenos Aires that was first published in 1992 by Editorial Mapfre.
This offers a comprehensive discussion of key health trends and cross-cutting policy challenges. The volume’s 30 chapters are written by experts, policy makers and practitioners who consider both emerging and long-standing urban health problems.
THE CORE OF this book is eight case studies on the role of civil society groups in urban development – for instance, in state-(and international agency-) led shelter projects in peri-urban communities in Maputo; in community development and urban management in Manila; in housing programmes in Cos
This volume examines Indian cities’ mixed experiences with decentralization and partnerships in service delivery, and helps to evaluate whether governance reforms have yielded the expected benefits.
THIS BOOK IS part of the Routledge Urban Reader series. Through its selection of both classic and contemporary works in urban geography, the editors present the different kinds of debate that have stimulated urban geography and that will shape its agenda in the near future.
This publication focuses on problems that resulted from the increasing pressure facing urban and suburban land use in South Africa brought on by a number of different factors including the political and historical background of the country as well as by rapid urbanization.
This volume follows the life of Nazneen, a women born into a Bangladesh village. At the age of 18, Nazneen is sent to England in an arranged marriage with a 40 year old man who works for the local council.
This website contains the data and maps used in the analyses summarized in the previous Book Note – for instance, the pairs of land cover maps derived from satellite images of 120 cities and metropolitan areas circa 1990 and 2000, zipped kml files containing the urban land cover for 3,646 large c
This research report seeks to enrich our understanding of policies that are appropriate for urban expansion.
THE PAPERS IN this edited collection were originally presented at an international meeting held in Burkina Faso in 1997, which brought together researchers working in the six projects of the programme ‘Urban Environment Management’ supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss