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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.
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This summary reflects the substantive presentations and discussions of a workshop, “From Urban Exclusion to Inclusive Urbanisation”, held from 28 to 30 October 2015 in London.
The City in Urban Poverty aims to turn traditional thinking upside down.
Between 1950 and 2000, the total population of West Africa increased fourfold, with almost one third now living in urban centres. Alongside growing urbanization, many countries in the region increasingly rely on food imports for certain staples.
Urbanization is reshaping the landscape of East Africa. By 2050, the proportion of urban residents in East Africa will increase from 25 to 44 per cent. This dramatic shift is transforming relations between rural and urban areas, particularly as they relate to food security.
This paper brings together the views, analysis and opinions of six women who voluntarily manage the micro-credit programme for housing improvement and work together with IIED-América Latina.
Affordable Housing in New York takes a longitudinal approach to exploring housing in New York City.
In this book Christopher Coutts is careful to specify definitions and concepts.
This book collects contributions from a cycle of seminars on “mobilities, policy and projects” organized by the PhD course in Urban Planning, Design and Policy (UPDP), Politecnico di Milano and the PhD course in Urban and Local European Studies (URBEUR), University of Milano Bicocca.
Vendors in African informal settlements play vital but overlooked roles in alleviating food insecurity.
Trevor Fuller, the author of Environmental Justice and Activism in Indianapolis, is an associate professor of geography at the State University of New York at Oneonta.