Book notes
Engaging our readers in preparing book notes
Our Book Notes section has short descriptions of books, papers and reports that we have prepared on all subjects relevant to urban issues. These are summaries rather than reviews. These go into the Book Notes online database that contains all Book Notes since our 1993 editions. It has facilities for searching by author, title, key word, city or country.
As an experiment, we are opening this to our readers so it can draw on a wider pool of knowledge. So we invite you to send us short summaries of new publications you have read that you found interesting – and relevant to urban issues. Authors may submit summaries too, but not promotional material. We welcome your submission on relevant publications published within the last two years. This includes English-language Book Notes and English summaries of publications in Spanish, French or Portuguese. You will be listed as the author of the summary.
If you would like to submit a Book Note, please search the database on this page to ensure that the publication has not already been covered. Please specify the title, author, publisher, year of publication, number of pages, and ISBN (if applicable). For the description, between one and six paragraphs is sufficient. Book Notes can be sent to Jenny.Peebles@iied.org
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THIS BOOK IS an inventory of urban activities undertaken by 17 bilateral and 15 multilateral agencies across the world. The introduction begins with a rationale of why cities need international aid and discusses some trends in urbanization, urban poverty and the informal economy.
THE THREE SECTIONS into which this book is divided – Space and Population, Society and Architecture and Town and Culture – present the broad themes that provide the context for a wide ranging set of chapters on the city of Tehran.
THIS BOOK IS a valuable summary of urban issues but also has a greater interest in that it is presenting a strong argument for a greater involvement by development assistance agencies in urban development in Africa, Asia and Latin America and suggesting what form this assistance should take.
URBAN AGRICULTURE FEEDS hundreds of millions of people worldwide and is a rapidly emerging topic of concern in urban and development studies.
THE BOOK HAS seven chapters and is conceived as an introductory textbook to the main theoretical currents in urban sociology.
In June 2004, the Comparative Urban Studies Project (CUSP) and the National Institute of Urban Affairs of India held a forum called “Urban Infrastructure and Public Service Delivery for the Urban Poor, Regional Focus: Asia”, in New Delhi, India.
SOUTHWEST OF SÃO Paulo lies the Brazilian city of Curitiba, a metropolitan area of more than 2.5 million people.
This book documents how the scale and depth of urban poverty in Africa and much of Asia and Latin America is greatly underestimated because of inappropriate definitions and measurements.
The implications of urban development for overall economic prosperity are well known.
The Luanda Urban Poverty Programme (LUPP) was an award-winning initiative operating between 1999 and 2010, and this evaluation for the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID) discusses LUPP’s work on microfinance, water and sanitation, participatory governance and early ch