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 MULTI-DISCIPLINARY COLLECTION focuses on a topic that has tended to be overshadowed by the more general concern with rural poverty but that is finally emerging as a subject for discussion and debate.
In the book’s introduction, Brian Berry writes about the two competing paradigms that will inspire urban policies in the world for the next decades: the market-oriented versus the rationally planned social–spatial regulation.
ASIA IS HOME to over 40 per cent of the world’s urban population and has its share of urban problems – including environmental degradation, housing shortages and traffic congestion. This book is an effort by Asian planners to look at urban development and planning challenges.
THIS VOLUME IS primarily concerned with the role played by planning and governance in the development of mega-urban regions in Asia.
THIS BOOK FOCUSES on Latinos in USA from a planning and urban policy perspective. It provides a substantial historic overview of the issue, tracing the movement of Latinos from Mexico to American cities, and describing the problems and prejudices that they face.
THIS BOOK IS part of a series on urban and regional planning and development. It consists of a collection of papers, most of which were initially prepared for an urban and city management course jointly implemented by the World Bank Institute and the National University of Singapore.
This paper discusses both the need for governments to act to ensure that land with infrastructure and services is available for urban expansion and the form that government intervention in urban land development should take.
THIS BOOK IS part of a series on international land management, which addresses land management in an international context and highlights the multi-disciplinary nature of this complex issue.
THIS IS A new, much revised edition of Hardoy's scholarly and pioneering work on the cities of the American continent before the arrival of Columbus and the Spanish conquistadors in the fifteenth century of the Christian era.