Book notes
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.
This paper examines the linkages between decentralization and urban climate governance through a literature review, supported by two city case studies: Saint-Louis in Senegal and Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso.
This study examines the institutional networks required to link processes of community-level deliberation to city- and national-level processes of decision-making and implementation.
Paratransit in African Cities synthesizes findings from an academic research programme supported by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations.
This summary reflects the substantive presentations and discussions of a workshop, “From Urban Exclusion to Inclusive Urbanisation”, held from 28 to 30 October 2015 in London.