Book notes
In Cities and the Urban Land Premium Henri de Groot, Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings and Wouter Vermeulen they map out differences in land prices and wages across cities and rural areas in the Netherlands.
Geographies of Urban Governance is intended as “a state-of-the-art review of the theories, methods, instruments and practices of contemporary urban governance” (page xi).
Popular participation was introduced in Bolivia in 1994 as part of comprehensive decentralizing reforms.
Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility is one of 15 books published in the series “Routledge Advances in Ethnography”, which showcases innovative ethnographic work by both new and established scholars.
The World Migration Report 2015 takes migration enquiries to the city level. It aims to increase understanding of the local socioeconomic dynamics of migration and the close connection between migration and urban development.
For several decades now, Kenworthy and Newman have been examining the impact of transport on urban sustainability.
This book examines the theoretical evolution of the organic city in different time periods of post-war Europe, the United States and Latin America. The author also contrasts this with the practical experiences of seven case studies.
Kristin Szylvian’s research into the United States’ mutual housing associations draws on her dissertation study on Electric Heights – a housing development owned by a mutual housing association – in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.
Edited by Prof Jeff Waage and Christopher Yap from the London International Development Centre, Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development stems from an interdisciplinary project that began in 2013.