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City governance and citizen action
October 2008, 306 pages

Most papers in this issue are on the means by which low-income urban dwellers can get their needs addressed. But the focus is not on the role of governments or aid agencies and development banks or international NGOs but on the role of the urban poor groups themselves. This includes a paper by the well-known Indian slum leader Jockin Arputham on the approaches used by slum-dweller organizations. Many papers consider the possibilities for grassroots organizations to get their needs addressed – including through co-production arrangements with government agencies. Two papers consider the ways in which residents’ groups to get their needs addressed – one, for Mumbai, focusing on middle-income groups, the other, on Dhaka, on low income groups. One paper on Kenya and Tanzania considers the support provided to housing, schools, health centres and other urban facilities in East Africa that have been financed by endowments known as wakfs, created by citizens. Two papers consider the role for international agencies, one discussing whether international assistance is needed, the other looking at city-to-city cooperation. Some papers consider the constraints on effective community participation – for instance in a housing project in Cape Town, in a waste management scheme in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and among tenants in getting their needs addressed within urban redevelopment in Seoul.

There are also three papers on climate change and cities: Durban’s adaptation plan; the vulnerabilities of children and youth to climate change in urban areas; and details of how cities concentrate a smaller proportion of greenhouse gas emissions than the official estimates suggest. There are also papers in the Feedback section on addressing the social determinants of health for greater health equity in urban areas and on the environmental difficulties and development problems posed by the Jonglei canal in the Sudan.

Finance for housing, livelihoods and basic services
April 2008, 303 pages

This issue includes papers on finance for housing in Central America, finance for sanitation in Pakistan, and finance for incremental house construction. There are also papers on finance to support livelihoods and housing in Tamil Nadu, Hubli-Dharwad and a low-income municipality within Buenos Aires; and a discussion of the cost for urban poor groups of being excluded from conventional financial services. And there are papers on the free basic water programme in South Africa, the use of cash transfers to tackle child poverty in Peru, plans to develop Dharavi in Mumbai, and the winners and losers from the 2001 Gujarat earthquake.

There are also four papers on climate change and cities, with a case study of Mombasa’s vulnerability, a discussion of mitigation and adaptation for Indian cities, and papers on climate change and health and climate change and flooding,

Finance for low-income housing and community development
October 2007, 285 pages

This issue includes several papers on housing finance for urban poor groups: in Malawi; in post-conflict Angola; in the Philippines; in South Africa; and in Dar es Salaam. There are also papers on: housing policy and politics in Brazil; financing inclusion in Namibia; financing grassroots organizations; and the work of the charity Homeless International.

The Feedback section has papers on: the conflicts over redevelopment plans in Dharavi; informal mechanisms for securing urban land rights in Kampala; solid waste generation in Ogbomoso; flood risk in unplanned settlements in Lusaka; addressing flooding in Saint Louis, Senegal through government–civil society partnerships; and participatory city planning in Chhattisgarh.

Reducing risks to cities from disasters and climate change
April 2007, 328 pages

Papers on:

• Assessing the risks of climate change to settlements in low elevation coastal zones
• The vulnerability of global cities
• The vulnerability of Cotonou to sea-level rise
• Vulnerabilities and responses to climate change for Dhaka
• Adapting water management to climate change
• Stakeholder-based strategies for risk reduction for the urban poor
• A Municipal Adaptation Plan (MAP) for climate change for Cape Town
• Urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities

The Feedback section with papers on themes from previous journal issues includes papers on: t he urban reform agenda in Brazil; air pollution monitoring through an Internet-based volunteer network; barriers to achieving the water and sanitation MDGs in Cancún; and three papers on peri-urban dynamics – for Manila, São Paulo and two settlements in India. There is also an institutional profile of the Urban Resource Centre, Karachi

Ecological Urbanization II
October 2006, 328 pages

This has an editorial on “Towards a real-world understanding of less ecologically damaging patterns of urban development” and eight papers on different aspects of ecological urbanization:

• The environmental impact of cities
• Collaborative governance for sustainable water resources management: the experience of the Inter-municipal Initiative for the Integrated Management of the Ayuquila River Basin, Mexico
• Building sustainable neighbourhoods in South Africa: learning from the Lynedoch case
• The peri-urban water poor: citizens or consumers?
• Wastewater management in Kunming, China: a stakeholder perspective on measures at the source
• A heritage of unsustainability? Reviewing the origin of the large-scale water and sanitation system in Kampala, Uganda
• A new way to organize parking: the key to a successful sustainable transport system for the future

The Feedback section with papers on themes from previous journal issues includes papers on: partnerships between government and slum/shack dwellers’ federations; Protecting girls and young women in urban areas from HIV/Aids; the constraints faced by donor agencies in supporting effective, local pro-poor initiatives; the expansion of the work of the Pakistan NGO Orangi Pilot Project beyond Orangi and the mapping of informal settlements; the definition of child poverty; the scope for bottom-up planning in Kolkata; urban poor housing development on Bangkok’s waterfront; and the marginalization of youth in the 2006 World Urban Forum

Ecological urbanization I
April 2006, 256 pages

A special issue edited by Graham Haughton and Gordon McGranahan, which includes eight papers on different aspects of ecological urbanization:

• Urban sustainability and the limits of classical environmentalism
• Sustainability and infrastructure planning in Cape Town, South Africa
• Goa 2100: the transition to a sustainable RUrban design
• The eco-city: ten key transport and planning dimensions for sustainable city development
• Towards adaptive town environmental planning in Xiamen, China
• The Ecological Footprint of cities and regions
• The strengths and limitations of planning with Ecological Footprints
• Water, society and environment in the history of one Mexican city
• Addressing congestion and transport-related air pollution in Saharanpur, India

Chronic Poverty
October 2005, 220 pages

A special issue edited by Diana Mitlin, this has an editorial that discusses what it means to be chronically poor in urban areas and the inadequacies of government responses. There are eight papers on different aspects of chronic poverty, including:

• a focus on particular groups (rickshaw pullers and street children in Dhaka, street enterprises in Kinshasa);
• discussions of chronic poverty in particular locations (Cape Town, urban areas in Ethiopia, garrison communities in Jamaica);
• a review of the effectiveness of a safety net programme (focusing mainly on two low-income areas in Cairo); and
• an assessment of environmental health risks in informal settlements in Aleppo.

Papers in Feedback are on:

• the struggles of long-established communities and other civil society groups in Karachi to halt the Lyari expressway and to propose more effective, less costly alternatives;
• urban agriculture in West Africa;
• the Zabaleen waste collectors in Cairo; and
• the effectiveness of an urban services programme in Cuttack (India).

Meeting the Millennium Development Goals in Urban Areas

April 2005, 288 pages

Most papers in this issue discuss how the Millennium Development Goals can be met in urban areas or the constraints on doing so. There are papers on:

• Community-driven city-wide upgrading in Thailand and the national framework to support this;
• What has been learnt from financing housing and local development programmes in different nations in Central America;
• The framework for slum upgrading in Mumbai, India and its achievements to date;
• The ambitious housing and citizenship programmes in Sao Paulo, Brazil for upgrading and new house development and the legal and financial reforms that underpinned these;
• The land for housing programme of the Methodist Church in South Africa;
• The growing problem of forced evictions worldwide;
• A twin-track approach to existing and potential future slums, illustrated with a case study from Cambodia;
• State and civil society in a Havana barrio, Cuba; what influenced the success of local initiatives;
• Environmental management and public participation in Chiang Mai, Thailand;
• Public-private-community partnerships for water and sanitation in Moreno, Buenos Aires;
• Pro-poor governance in Bangalore's public water sector;
• Participatory government in two low-income municipalities in Lima, Peru;
• The role of civil society in urban environmental improvement in Hanoi;
• Sustaining health services in Patan, Nepal

Violence and Security
October 2004, 286 pages.

A special issue edited by Caroline O N Moser, this includes papers on gender-based violence in El Salvador, youth gangs in Guatemala, community-managed policing in Mumbai, indigenous community violence in Australia and violence and drugs in Colombia and Guatemala. It also has a review of the literature on urban violence and papers on violence in Kabul, Karachi, Medellín, Managua, Beirut, Colombia and South Africa. The feedback section includes papers on water resource management in Buenos Aires, watershed management in Sao Paulo and water privatization in Kenya.

Participatory Governance
April 2004, 256 pages.

This included a review of participatory budgeting in 25 cities; papers on the strengths and limitations of participatory governance in Costa Rica, Vietnam, Andhra Pradesh in India and Cebu in the Philippines; and governance innovations driven by federations formed by the urban poor in Cambodia, the Philippines and Kenya. It also had papers on housing finance in Ecuador, community mapping for water in Dar es Salaam and migration to and from Mexico City.

This includes three papers on community provision: the community-designed, built and managed toilet blocks in Indian cities; the WaterAid water and sanitation programme in Dhaka and Chittagong; and community tanks in Orangi, Karachi. It also has a review of experience to date with water privatization, and papers discussing women's and children's priorities for water and sanitation. There are case studies of water stress and their causes in Guadalajara and Beijing, and discussions and case studies of drainage and of how wastewater can be used for agriculture. A special supplement on the Millennium Development Goals has papers discussing the MDGs and urban poverty reduction, a Programme for Land Tenure Legalization on Public Land in São Paulo and financial frameworks to reduce “slums” and support home improvements for low-income households.

Rural-urban Transformations
April 2003, 250 pages.

This issue describes the multiple linkages between rural and urban areas, with papers drawn from 13 nations. A large and growing proportion of rural households have urban components to their livelihoods while most rural households rely on urban areas for access to markets and services. Many urban households have rural components to their livelihoods and retain strong links with rural areas while some keep part of their asset base in rural areas. This issue has papers on rural-urban linkages in Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique and Angola, farmers’ markets in Tamil Nadu, peri-urban areas around Hanoi, Colombo, Ibadan, Caracas and Hubli-Dharwad (and how this changes livelihoods and land uses), waste management around Bamako, Ouagadougou and Chennai, and environmental planning and waste water management around cities. It also has papers on NGO development in Jakarta, a new international fund to help poor households get land, the links between disaster risk and urban development, and youth participation in El Alto (Bolivia).

Building Better Cities with Children and Youth
October 2002, 283 pages.

This issue includes many papers describing how government policies can respond better to urban children’s rights to services, protection and participation. It includes a global overview of child-friendly urban policies and projects and several case studies:

• the city of Barra Mansa’s child-oriented budgeting process;
• the State of Ceará’s awards-based initiative to strengthen the implementation of child rights; and
• the child-friendly cities programme in Italy and in five cities in the Philippines.
  

It also has accounts of girls’ and boys’ experiences in low-income settlements in Johannesburg, among suburban children in Australia and among Congolese refugees in Dar es Salaam, and their priorities for improvement. There is also an overview of urban youth in conflict with the law (with a case study from Cali), a review of changes in provision for play in New York and a discussion of how to integrate children and youth into settlement development plans. A special supplement on the World Summit on Sustainable Development includes suggestions for implementing sustainable development and a description of environmental management in Porto Alegre and how it integrates with participatory budgeting. The Feedback section includes papers on upgrading in Ho Chi Minh City, surveying and mapping slums in Pune, and community participation in waste management in Bamako and Bangalore.

Globalization and Cities
April 2002, 298 pages.

This includes case studies of how globalization is affecting Karachi, Luanda, Buenos Aires, Windhoek and cities in Pacific Asia, and influencing social exclusion in Johannesburg and Faisalabad. It also has papers on the evasion of corporate responsibility in Bhopal and on the role of cities and city-networks in globalization. There are also papers on: people-managed resettlement in Mumbai; cities as agents of change; democratic local governance and globalization in Central America; supporting civil-society through channelling donor support through local funds; and the world’s first transnational corporation (the East India Company). In the Feedback section, there are papers on Durban’s Local Agenda 21; maternal mobility between rural and urban areas in Kenya, the role of NGOs in Korean society, the right to water versus cost-recovery in sub-Saharan Africa, and cholera in Madagascar.

Civil Society in Action; Transforming Opportunities for the Urban Poor
October 2001, 276 pages.

This includes articles on:

• Savings and loans; drawing lessons from some experiences in Asia
• Deep democracy
• Shack/Slum Dwellers International
• Building an urban poor people's movement in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• The Philippines Homeless People's Federation
• Options for urban development in Zimbabwe
• The limits of loan finance in a capital subsidy context
• Community-based organization and participatory planning in Southeast Mexico City
• Global civil society and community exchanges
• Civil society and urban poverty - examining complexity
• The Urban Management Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Water privatization in Buenos Aires
• Local Agenda 21 in Rufisque
• The Ilo clean air project
• Street food and income generation for poor households in Kinshasa

Rethinking Aid to Urban Poverty Reduction: Lessons for Donors
April 2001, 296 pages.

This includes articles on:

• The Local Development Programme (PRODEL) in Nicaragua
• Urban assistance at the World Bank
• US AID support to housing in Egypt
• Obstacles to young people’s participation in donor projects
• Successes and limitations in donor support in El Mezquital
• The impact of slum improvement projects in India
• DFID Community Challenge Funds in Uganda
• US AID support to housing in Zimbabwe
• Constraints on donor effectiveness
• Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre and Belo Horizonte
• The environmental and political dimensions of poverty
• Constraints to managing poverty in Cameroon
• There are also three papers in the Feedback section: Community-based watershed management in Greater São Paulo; Urban poverty and transport in Karachi; and Evaluating sanitary quality in different areas of Salvador (Brazil).

Sustainable Cities III
October 2000, 230 pages.

This includes articles on:

• Local Agenda 21 in Leicester (UK)
• The politics of sustainable cities in Mangalore (India)
• Changes in urban water use in East Africa over three decades
• Community toilets in Pune (India)
• Privatizing water and sanitation for the urban poor
• Partnerships in Nakuru’s Local Agenda 21 (Kenya)
  Cities, disasters and livelihoods
  Privatization and waste management in Benin City (Nigeria)
• The consumption of fertile land in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
• The loss of agricultural land in Saharanpur City (India)
• Integrative analysis of Bangkok
• The potential for recycling in Mexicali (Mexico)
• Environmental management in Surabaya (Indonesia)
• Urban change in Egypt
• The UNICEF initiative on child-friendly cities

Poverty Reduction and Urban Governance
April 2000, 250 pages.

This includes articles on poverty reduction and urban governance in:

• Ahmedabad (India)
• Bamako (Mali)
• Bangalore (India)
• Cebu (Philippines)
• Colombo (Sri Lanka)
• Guatemala City (Guatemala)
• Johannesburg (South Africa)
• Kumasi (Ghana)
• Maputo (Mozambique)
• Mombasa (Kenya)
• Santiago (Chile)
• Visakhapatnam (India)

It also includes papers in the Feedback section on:

• The home as workplace

Social organizations in Buenos Aires
Sustainable Cities Revisited II
October 1999, 304 pages.

This includes papers on:

• Community-level Local Agenda 21s in Manizales and in Lima
• Land invasion and model house-building in Cape Town
• Information and participation within environmental management
• Addressing children's needs in urban areas - Sustainable manufacturing
• Pro-poor urban regeneration
• Partnerships for Local Agenda 21s
• Urban agriculture in Havana and in Nigerian cities
• Waste collection and management in Madras and in Quito
• Local Agenda 21 in Ilo, Peru
• Disaster preparedness in Turkey
• Incorporating gender issues in quality of life research

It also includes three papers on participatory tools and methods:

• Research on violence with examples from Colombia and Guatemala
• Indicators for users and suppliers of environmental services
• Environmental health information systems
  

Healthy Cities, Neighbourhoods and Homes
April 1999, 304 pages.

This includes papers on:

• Urban governance and health development in León, Nicaragua
• Healthy city projects
• Evaluations of healthy city projects in Bangladesh
• Environmental problems in Mexico City
• Controlling air pollution in Saõ Paulo
• Environmental health
• The urban community activities project in Thailand
• Small-scale entrepreneurs for urban water and sanitation
• Links between health and sanitation in Betim, Brazil
• Sanitation in Indian cities
• Controlling malaria in urban areas
• House improvement in Dhaka, Bangladesh
• Micro-finance for housing
• Rural-urban links in Bangladesh
• NGOs in Mumbai
• Land for housing in Papua New Guinea

It also includes a paper reviewing developments in participatory learning and action.

Sustainable Cities Revisited
October 1998, 276 pages.

This includes:

• Case studies of innovative Local Agenda 21s in Manizales (Colombia) and Chimbote (Peru) and of a Peru-wide programme to support Local Agenda 21s in many Peruvian cities
• A review of ‘Localizing Agenda 21' programmes in Nakuru (Kenya), Essaouira (Morocco) and Vinh City (Vietnam)
• Measures to avoid anti-poor solutions to Mumbai's transport problems
• An overview of how urban agriculture has changed over time in and around Mexico City and the economic and ecological advantages it provides
• The environmental impact of the city of Bamenda's rapid growth in Cameroon
• Innovative waste management in Manila (working with the waste pickers) and in Cotonou (Benin)
• A critical review of the concept of ‘sustainability'’
• An analysis of how the military and the ‘population control’ lobby mis-represent the causes of environmental degradation to justify their roles
• A critical review of the management of urban services in Buenos Aires over the last century
• A case study on street homelessness in Johannesburg

Beyond the Rural-Urban Divide
April 1998, 288 pages.

This includes articles on rural-urban interactions with regard to:

• Household structure and gender relations
• Town and country (Zimbabwe)
• Manila and its surrounds (Philippines)
• Harare (Zimbabwe)
• Durban (South Africa)
• Health and peri-urban production
• Mexico City (Mexico)
• Gaborone (Botswana)
• Dakar (Senegal)

It also includes a guide to the literature on rural-urban linkages and papers in the Feedback section on:

• Reducing urban poverty
• Women vendors in Port-au-Prince (Haiti)
• Children at risk in Cairo (Egypt)
• Housing conditions and policies in Cairo (Egypt)
  

Tenants: Addressing Needs, Increasing Options
October 1997, 360 pages.
Includes papers on rental accommodation and tenants' organizations in Goiania (Brazil), Cape Town and Durban (South Africa), Howrah (India), Lima (Peru), Cochabamba (Bolivia), Nairobi (Kenya), San Salvador (El Salvador) and central areas in Latin American cities. Also provision for sanitation in tenant areas in Nairobi. Papers in the Feedback section are on: new models for aid agencies in the search for shelter; translating NGO successes into government policies; growing up in cities; urbanization and care giving; evictions and relocations in Lagos; greening small recycling firms in Calcutta; and appraising a low-income housing programme in Kenya.

The Struggle for Shelter
April 1997, 293 pages.
This includes papers on the struggle for shelter in Dakar, Fortaleza, Lima, Hyderabad (Pakistan), Buenos Aires, the United States and South Africa and a photo-essay on Mexico. Also, papers on: The Big Issue and other street papers for the homeless; what determines vulnerability to floods in Georgetown; the use of existing data to understand inequalities in health; experiences with participation action research for children of the urban poor; and the experience of Sharan in developing financial services for the urban poor in India.

City Inequality
October 1996, 241 pages.
This includes an overview of city inequality, a guide to the literature and case studies of Monterrey, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Calcutta, London and Halifax (USA). It also includes a photo-essay on Calcutta and papers on child waste pickers, informal land markets in Cebu (Philippines), the work of the People's Dialogue and the South African Homeless People's Federation, and informal settlements in Montego Bay (Jamaica).

Future Cities
April 1996, 288 pages.
Special issue for Habitat II, the second UN Conference on Human Settlements (also known as the Cities Summit). It includes several papers considering the future of cities and what must change to improve conditions there, and papers on reducing automobile dependence and on addressing violence. Also, papers reporting on innovative urban management in Ilo (Peru), Ismailia (Egypt) and cities in Thailand, participative budgeting in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), innovations in European cities moving towards sustainable development goals, popular organizations in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and urban poverty in South Africa's economic heartland; and an NGO profile of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.

Urban Poverty II: From Understanding to Action
266 pages, October 1995.
Includes papers on urban poverty in Abidjan, Dhaka, Brazil, Nairobi, the Pacific and Khartoum and on how municipal interventions can address poverty. Also papers on how the middle-classes were squeezed in Latin America during the 1980s, on housing markets in La Paz, on Chile's housing policy, and two papers on participatory tools and methods. Also a profile of the Orangi Pilot Project in Pakistan.

Urban Poverty: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences
April 1995, 283 pages.
This includes papers on urban poverty in Harare, Mexico, Dar es Salaam, San Carlos de Bariloche, Bombay and the rural-urban interface in Tanzania. Also four general papers, including one by Robert Chambers which considers the links between poverty and livelihoods, and two papers on participatory tools and methods.

Service Provision in Cities
240 pages, October 1994.
This includes papers on a community directed basic service programme in Guatemala City, a programme to stop violence against women and children in Cebu, the promotion of community based approaches to urban infrastructure in Nigeria, community mobilization for obtaining land tenure and services in Ouagadougou, and a sanitation programme in Dhaka. Also papers on setting a new agenda for sexual and reproductive health and rights, household-level environmental problems in Sao Paulo and waste-picking in Bangalore. Also a profile of the Carvajal Foundation and Feedback on action plans for sustainable communities and the decline of the urban management system in South Africa.

Eviction
April 1994, 222 pages.
This includes an overview of evictions worldwide and case studies of evictions in Bangkok, Manila, Karachi, Durban, Rio de Janeiro, Lhasa and Israel. Also papers on health in Nairobi's illegal settlements, urban agriculture in Harare, and sustainable cities and China. There are also profiles of the Urban Resource Centre in Karachi and the Centre for Housing Rights and Evictions.

Health and Well-being in Cities
October 1993, 219 pages.
This includes case studies from Accra, Jakarta and Lusaka, a study in Khulna (Bangladesh) on the impacts of ill-health on household income and nutrition, and papers reviewing the impacts on health of urban environments, and women's needs and priorities for water and sanitation. Also, a description of a violence prevention programme and a paper on what makes ‘a healthy city’. Also a guide to the literature on health in cities, a profile of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights and Feedback on the Community Assistance Service (Praja Sahayaka Sewaya) in Sri Lanka.

Funding Community-level Initiatives
April 1993, 190 pages.
This includes case studies of funding initiatives by local groups in Bombay, Karachi, Mexico City, San José and South Africa with overviews of funding systems for community development and for shelter improvements. Also, a description of the work of the Cooperative Housing Foundation in Central America and of the Settlements Information Network Africa, and a paper on environmental problems in the river Magdalena (Colombia) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Sustainable Cities
October 1992, 238 pages.
This includes papers on cities' ecological footprints, the political economy of urban poverty and environmental management, recycling in Bogotá, upgrading in Surabaya, non-conventional options for garbage collection and recycling, urban agriculture, and Curitiba's environmental programme. Also, papers on voluntary organizations in Bangladesh and on an innovative sports programme for children in one of Nairobi's largest squatter settlements. There are also profiles of IIED-América Latina and Homeless International.

Sustainable Development and the Global Commons — A Third World Re-assessment
April 1992, 179 pages.
This includes papers on sustainable development in Pakistan, India, Argentina and Colombia; also papers on primary environmental care, health and the environment, women and sustainable development, global warming and global sustainability. Papers in Feedback are on street children and aids, and gender and the environment. Also a profile of RAFAD, a Foundation which provides loan guarantees to enable Third World partners to obtain credit from local institutions.

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