Book notes
Cash transfers can offer value-for-money in humanitarian responses, and cash transfer programming (CTP) has the potential to transform humanitarian architecture.
Seen as a valuable resource for cities and towns, green infrastructure holds the “potential to mitigate many of the challenges facing urban environments, including biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and health inequalities”, as well as adaptation to climate change and food secu
Cities Interrupted brings together researchers in architecture, geography, urban planning, photography and art to explore some of the ways that visual culture responds to, intervenes in, decelerates and critiques global conditions of urban speed and mobility.
Ken Conca, the author of An Unfinished Foundation, acknowledges that his writing to date has been generally informed by three aspects: being sceptical about formal political processes, looking beyond the state for institutional politics, and believing that good things happen when margina
El artículo propone una reflexión sobre la importancia de un enfoque cultural para la comprensión de la pobreza, a partir de nuevas concepciones sobre ésta y desde la mirada de los pobres, recalcando la importancia de la adecuada comprensión de los contextos y las culturas.
Cities that work is the title of Issue 18 of UNIDO’s quarterly magazine.
Across sub-Saharan Africa, water services for low-income urban communities remain variable and often unaffordable. Although water kiosks may be available and households may be connected on shared and metered connections, costs often remain prohibitively high.
This Worldwatch Institute publication suggests some different directions for more sustainable cities. Sustainability is framed in an all-encompassing way. While much of the book discusses responses to climate challenges, space is also given to social justice consideration.
This book focuses on socio-cultural aspects of urban transformations in Iranian cities. The content is mainly based on a selection of papers accepted for the conference “Urban Change in Iran”, hosted by the Bartlett Development Planning Unit of University College London.
Why Women will Save the Planet is a product of Friends of the Earth’s three-year “Big Ideas” project, which asked the question: “Could women’s empowerment transform the chances of achieving environmental sustainability?”.