Book notes
The City in Urban Poverty aims to turn traditional thinking upside down.
Between 1950 and 2000, the total population of West Africa increased fourfold, with almost one third now living in urban centres. Alongside growing urbanization, many countries in the region increasingly rely on food imports for certain staples.
Urbanization is reshaping the landscape of East Africa. By 2050, the proportion of urban residents in East Africa will increase from 25 to 44 per cent. This dramatic shift is transforming relations between rural and urban areas, particularly as they relate to food security.
This paper brings together the views, analysis and opinions of six women who voluntarily manage the micro-credit programme for housing improvement and work together with IIED-América Latina.
Affordable Housing in New York takes a longitudinal approach to exploring housing in New York City.
In this book Christopher Coutts is careful to specify definitions and concepts.
This book collects contributions from a cycle of seminars on “mobilities, policy and projects” organized by the PhD course in Urban Planning, Design and Policy (UPDP), Politecnico di Milano and the PhD course in Urban and Local European Studies (URBEUR), University of Milano Bicocca.
Vendors in African informal settlements play vital but overlooked roles in alleviating food insecurity.
Trevor Fuller, the author of Environmental Justice and Activism in Indianapolis, is an associate professor of geography at the State University of New York at Oneonta.
Like many other countries in the global South, Malawi has failed to meet Millennium Development Goal targets to improve access to sanitation.