Book notes
Stemming from the Design for Urban Disaster conference at Harvard University in 2014, Urban Disaster Resilience explores the concepts of “urban” and “disaster” within the framework of “resilience”.
This report summarizes a series of studies carried out by a multi-disciplinary team of Thai scholars. It focuses on the dynamics of urbanization and climate change risks, and on the linkages among urbanization, climate change and emerging patterns of urban poverty and vulnerability.
The exponential increase in Karachi’s population, the change in its demographic indicators, the spatial spread of housing, and the geographical concentration of livelihoods opportunities mean increasing transport pressures.
Sustainable Water is edited by Allison Lassiter and was conceived from her lecture series called “Planning for Water Sustainability in the 21st Century”.
This book tackles class, race and other differences in the Caribbean environmental movement, based on analysis of Willemstad, Curaçao and Kingston, Jamaica.
There is increasing awareness of the impacts of climate change on the health of urban residents. Although Thailand has seen relatively low rates of urbanization compared to its ASEAN counterparts, cities across the country are growing.
Much of India’s future urbanization will be the result of migration from rural areas and small cities and towns. These urban migrants are often invisible, voiceless and powerless.
Conservation for Cities by Robert McDonald widens the traditional concept of conservation, as biodiversity protection, and introduces it as a tool for using nature to improve the lives of city dwellers.
A publication of Down to Earth magazine, Why Urban India Floods reviews the state of urban flooding across India and its relation to urbanization and drainage, which is often neglected.
In Managing the City Economy, Le-Yin Zhang provides a practice-oriented book about managing the city economy, especially in developing countries.