Book notes
Urbanization offers substantial opportunities to reduce poverty, in part because it is more cost-effective to meet many basic needs in cities than in rural areas.
Lebanon’s refugee crisis has highlighted the need for much closer coordination among the various organizations and local authorities involved in the response. This paper analyses existing collaboration mechanisms in relation to the Syrian crisis in Lebanon.
On 8 November 2013, the city of Tacloban was devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon on record to make landfall. Despite crippling damage, the local government strove to coordinate recovery efforts towards a better, more resilient city.
Food and Urbanism, by Susan Parham, explores the interconnections between food and cities using the lens of urbanism. She analyses how transforming spaces of food and cities contributes to convivial and sustainable living, and may affect these attributes in a largely urbanized future.
The City in the Making, by Marcel Hénaff, explores the making of the future city. In doing so it bridges the fields of anthropology, philosophy and urbanism, whilst providing a poetic read. It starts by looking at the ancient cities of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia.
Men, Masculinities and Disaster brings into view the place and role of masculinities, how they are socially constructed, and how they enter into all phases of the disaster cycle.
The Croatian government managed the transit of 650,000 migrants and refugees in late 2015 and early 2016 by coordinating the activities of an extensive number of international, national and local stakeholders to ensure quick and appropriate responses to these people’s needs.
As Indian cities grow, urban planners must ensure that basic infrastructure and public services are provided on a sustainable and equitable basis.
Emergence of community toilets as a public good was written by Sheela Patel together with a team from the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF), Mahila Milan and SPARC.
It is impossible to read Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond and not be significantly affected.