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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THE AIM OF the World Resource reports, which now come out one every two years, is to provide an objective and up to date report of conditions and trends in the world's natural resources and global environment. In this report, the eighth of its kind, a new design and format have been introduced.
THE SEVENTH REPORT in the World Resources series, this book gives a comprehensive range of data and information on the environment and development.
INDONESIA’S INTEGRATED URBAN Infrastructure Development Programme was created in 1985 in an attempt to combine more integrated physical and financial planning and implementation of urban infrastructure, while at the same time decentralizing responsibility for the provision of infrastructure from
THIS IS THE doctoral thesis of one of the founding members of the research programme on People, Provisioning and Place in Africa, at the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.
ONE OF TWO volumes that aim to share good working practices from individual countries in the field of urban development, providing a space for information and idea exchange and provoking reflection in this area.
THIS BOOK EXAMINES the economic challenges and opportunities facing urban centres in the first quarter of this century as a result of growing globalization and regionalism, and offers some policy insights that will assist urban leaders to enhance the positive features of globalization for their c
This book juxtaposes contemporary accounts of Lhasa from local and exiled Tibetans, foreign observers and Chinese migrants in the city with architectural observations by the author to describe Lhasa and its current status as both an ancient city and a modern Chinese provincial capital.
This book presents the case for a stronger focus on urban issues by local and national governments and international agencies – and it justifies its provocative title by explaining how urban development can be the engine of economic, social and cultural development with benefits for both rural an
The challenge of urban development in Africa is already well-known to readers of Environment and Urbanization through papers we have published that describe its local manifestations in multiple sectors, including land, health, housing, basic services, livelihoods and the environment.
THIS EDITED COLLECTION brings together work on South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Zambia by a number of Southern African, French and British researchers.