EDITORIAL
Editorial: The social and political basis for citizen action on urban poverty reduction
David Satterthwaite

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Developing new approaches for people-centred development
Jockin Arputham

With and beyond the state – co-production as a route to political influence, power and transformation for grassroots organizations
Diana Mitlin

A tale of two wards: political participation and the urban poor in Dhaka city
Nicola Banks

International assistance for cities in low- and middle-income countries: do we still need it?
Richard Stren

Houses without community: problems of community (in)capacity in Cape Town, South Africa
Charlotte Lemanski

Living on the edge: financing post-displacement housing in urban redevelopment projects in Seoul
Hyun Bang Shin

Financing social infrastructure and addressing poverty through wakf endowments: experience from Kenya and Tanzania
Saad S Yahya

Budget sheets and buy-in: financing community-based waste management in Siem Reap, Cambodia
Kate Parizeau, Virginia Maclaren and Lay Chanthy

Bridging local institutions and civil society in Latin America: can city-to-city cooperation make a difference?
Marike Bontenbal and Paul van Lindert

“Negotiated spaces” for representation in Mumbai: ward committees, advanced locality management and the politics of middle-class activism
Isa Baud and Navtej Nainan

CLIMATE CHANGE AND CITIES

Climate change and urban children: impacts and implications for adaptation in low- and middle-income countries
Sheridan Bartlett

Thinking globally, acting locally – institutionalizing climate change at the local government level in Durban, South Africa
Debra Roberts

Cities’ contribution to global warming: notes on the allocation of greenhouse gas emissions
David Satterthwaite

FEEDBACK

Towards action on social determinants for health equity in urban settings
Tord Kjellstrom and Susan Mercado

Post-Jonglei planning in southern Sudan: combining environment with development
Adil Mustafa Ahmad

BOOK NOTES

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BULLETIN BOARD

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SUMMARIES

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Next issue: City governance and citizen action II

The following papers will be among those published in the April 2009 issue: Bloggers’ street movement and the right to the city; (re)claiming Cairo’s real and virtual spaces of freedom – Wael Salah Fahmi

This is no longer the city I once knew; evictions, the urban poor and the right to the city in millennial Delhi
Gautam Bhan

For enhanced civic participation in local governance: calling tyranny to account in Harare
Amin Y Kamete

Interview with Roberto Miguel Lifshitz, mayor of Rosario
Florencia Almansi

Being a mayor: the view from four Colombian cities
Julio D. Dávila

Social movement and habitat production in Buenos Aires; when policies are effective
Mariano Scheinsohn and Cecilia Cabrera

Blaming cities for climate change? An analysis of urban greenhouse gas emissions inventories
David Dodman

A participatory governance model for sustainable development of Cumalikizik: a heritage site in Turkey
Murat Tas, Nilufer Tas and Arzu Cahantimur