Book notes
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.
In the words of its editors, Johnson, Toly and Schroeder, “[t]his book is about the ways in which cities, transnational urban networks and global governance institutions have repositioned themselves in the context of urbanization and global climate change” (pages 3–4).
This edited collection compares urban planning in the colonial and postcolonial eras of Lusophone Africa. The premise is that it is difficult to understand current and future conditions of planning in these countries without knowing their political and infrastructural histories.
The aims of this book include discussing the complex relationships among physical landscapes, natural resources, and their modification by human land use in various Asian environments.
Rebuilding Community after Katrina compiles reflections on an unusual initiative.
The two water supply agencies in Can Tho City, Vietnam have contradictory interests when it comes to providing clean water to peri-urban residents. This impedes the provision of high-quality treated water and makes water supply more costly.
Rapid urbanization and industrialization have had multiple impacts on rural Vietnam since economic reforms were introduced in the mid-1980s. In a 2006 study, the authors discovered that three rural settlements focused on specialty fruits were thriving amid all the socioeconomic changes.