Book notes
This paper aims to inform future policy by providing a critical analysis of grassroots finance models.
Caught between Spaces, a Lund University doctoral dissertation, seeks to understand the vulnerability and wellbeing of low-income peri-urban populations in the two Colombian cities of Soacha and Bogotá.
In India, a new funding mechanism has transformed shelter options for low-income households and supported community-led development.
Edited by Diane Archer, Sarah Colenbrander and David Dodman, Responding to Climate Change in Asian Cities illustrates the overarching importance of urban adaptive governance for building climate resilience and thus sustainable development.
Investing in Urban Resilience, by Santos and Leitmann, is a flagship report that succinctly “explores the rationale for increasing investment in the resilience of cities and their citizens to natural disasters and climate change” (page 12).
Since the 1980s, Slum/Shack Dwellers International (SDI) has worked to place the urban poor at the heart of the politics and economics that make modern cities unequal and exclusionary.
A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park is co-authored by the head of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy (formerly the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition) and a freelance journalist.
Recoded City: Co-creating Urban Futures is a visionary book, which documents past and current experiences of participatory placemaking in order to demonstrate future possibilities.
Written in collaboration among Li Zhang and Min Zhao (two Chinese academics) and Richard LeGates (a US academic), Understanding China’s Urbanization brings Chinese research and insight to a Western audience and makes valuable connections and comparisons.
Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South explores the gendered nature of seven broad topics: land/housing, services, health, violence, mobility, productivity, and politics/governance.