Book notes
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.
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.