Book notes
This English/Portuguese book is an example of how participatory planning, which puts citizens at the heart of community improvement, can facilitate local responses to climate change challenges.
This book highlights the author’s decade-long, largely ethnographic research on securitization efforts in the two largest economies in Latin America, Brazil and Mexico.
This book describes some elements and purposes of French urban planning models in foreign territories. The author seeks to promote understanding of the channels or conduits employed in efforts to diffuse these models.
In The Pedestrian and the City Carmen Hass-Klau brings us a remarkable volume of content.
This book emerged from discussions during the 2011 World Water Week, which revealed a need to focus on a variety of issues surrounding water and Latin American cities from a development perspective.
In this second edition of Key Concepts in Urban Studies, Professor Panu Lehtovuori from Tampere University of Technology, Finland joins with the original authors, Mark Gottdiener and Leslie Budd, to “critically analyze the dynamic changes in the field of urban studies” (p.
This book collects essays on situations of health deprivation among the poor, with discussions of the social movements that have emerged to address this. The geographical cases span India, Colombia, Uganda, and Latin America.
Based upon the Lionel Robbins Lectures given by Nicholas Stern in 2012, this book’s core mantra is to act now rather than later in tackling climate change.
The Art of Public Space grew out of a research project of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.
Both informal and formal mechanisms govern the ownership and management of the land market in Karachi, Pakistan. This book aims to identify and discuss these mechanisms in a manner that is accessible to practitioners and stakeholders alike.