Book notes
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?”.
It has long been known that poverty makes people more vulnerable to climate change. Shock Waves sets out to empirically assess the relationship.
The intention of this book is to explore “untamed” urban forms that are rarely acknowledged or recognized as productive, to rethink what makes cities conduits of social and environmental justice.
This collection originated as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The chapters cover topics including diversity and urban street markets, anti-immigrant sentiments, migrant integration, and understandings of ethnic identity.
By “remittance landscape”, Sarah Lynn Lopez is referring to the shaping of the built environment in rural Mexico by migration to US cities and remittances sent from there.
Ghana’s most recent census, in 2010, was its 5th since independence in 1957.
Sidewalk City is devoted to a part of the urban landscape that is often overlooked. Its author, Annette Miae Kim, teaches public policy and directs the Spatial Analysis Lab at the University of Southern California.