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 focuses on changing oil-based patterns of transport through the early adoption of electric vehicles and grid-based systems.
This book offers a comprehensive review of urban transport, paying careful attention to regional variation, different transport modes, the pivotal role of institutions and holistic plans to promote sustainable transport.
This book presents the findings of the Action Research Programme on Rickshaws and Rickshaw pullers 2000–2002, demonstrating the problems and negative attitudes that rickshaw owners, drivers and users are beset with, their place in society and what needs to be done to protect the livelihoods of th
THIS BOOK BEGINS by outlining major concerns about transport planning in the South, particularly with regard to accessibility, the supply of public transport, accidents, discomfort, pollution and congestion.
PERHAPS MORE THAN any other single product, motor vehicles today embody the dilemma faced by society between economic growth on the one hand and the desire to protect the environment on the other.
Urban transport presents a critical challenge for development.— to develop an efficient model, with minimal environmental impact, pollution and health hazards, beneficial to the poor without encouraging the better-off to rely on individual cars.
TRADITIONALLY, “TRANSPORT POVERTY” and its impacts on social welfare have been poorly understood, and generally overlooked by policy professionals. The key aim of this book is to initiate a greater cross-fertilization between the transport disciplines and the social sciences.
IN THIS BOOK, an UCLA professor in the Department of Urban Planning dissects the economic, social and environmental impacts of current US parking regulations, criticizes current planning practice in relation to parking, and proposes reforms.
THIS BOOK EXAMINES the various aspects of road and rail transport in India with regard to their geographical significance for the region.
THIS VOLUME PRESENTS a unique municipal approach to waste management based on lessons learnt during the six-year (1995-2001) Urban Waste Expertise Programme (UWEP) research and pilot project on urban waste in Africa, Asia and Latin America.