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 BOOK IS the final report of the SUSCOM (Sustainable Communities in Europe) project, and provides the reader with Local Agenda 21 (LA21) case studies from communities in 11 European countries that are trying to achieve sustainable development at the local level.
THIS BOOK PRESENTS the results of the research project SADU (Environmental Sustainability of Urban Development) taking place in Mar de Plata, Argentina.
THIS ACADEMIC DISSERTATION considers how residents can achieve healthier living in large Third World cities.
NOWADAYS, CARS PLAY a greater part than ever in our lives, and traffic is a growing problem for the urban quality of life. Not only is traffic increasing but streets and cities are also progressively being designed to meet the needs of cars rather than those of citizens.
THE STREET FOOD Project was coordinated by the Equity Policy Centre (EPOC) in Washington DC and focused on the dual nature of the street food trade as a provider of food and as a micro-enterprise.
This edited volume provides an introduction to Foucault’s writings in relation to the interests of the discipline of geography.
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES the key role of micro-enterprises, small enterprises and cooperatives in solid waste collection and management in Latin American cities.