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 integrates the results of recent research on the potential, risks, dynamics, policies and action programmes of urban agriculture in the world.
In this accessible and policy-relevant volume, contributors discuss urban agriculture in Kampala utilizing the diverse perspectives of public health, human rights and good governance.
This book was prepared in order to advance discussions for the commemoration of the bicentennial of Argentina in 2010.
The Foundation for the Promotion of Local Development (PRODEL) operated from 1994 to 2008 following Nicaragua’s civil war, and it created an integrated poverty reduction programme that sought to reach the poorest and overcome social exclusion.
This describes what has been achieved during the first two years of this programme, implemented by the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights to catalyze and support community-led and citywide upgrading and partnerships between community organizations and local governments.
AFTER A BACKGROUND section summarizing the scale and nature of urban growth in India, the growth in the number of people living in "slums" and the different approaches used in slum development, this report describes in some detail the concept of slum networking.
THIS REPORT PRESENTS the outcome of research undertaken in 1999-2000 to examine the conceptual framework underpinning what the authors argue is a new generation of housing policies aiming at the alleviation of poverty.
This volume (with the text in both Spanish and English) reviews the lessons learned from regeneration programmes in low-income neighbourhoods that had poor quality and deteriorated housing, a lack of public spaces and poor relations with government.
Building Cities analyzes the outcomes and lessons from recent upgrading projects in Latin America that were funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The editor’s introduction traces changing approaches to urban informality and identifies priorities for future upgrading projects.