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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Like many other countries in the global South, Malawi has failed to meet Millennium Development Goal targets to improve access to sanitation.
In Cities and the Urban Land Premium Henri de Groot, Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings and Wouter Vermeulen they map out differences in land prices and wages across cities and rural areas in the Netherlands.
Geographies of Urban Governance is intended as “a state-of-the-art review of the theories, methods, instruments and practices of contemporary urban governance” (page xi).
Popular participation was introduced in Bolivia in 1994 as part of comprehensive decentralizing reforms.
Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility is one of 15 books published in the series “Routledge Advances in Ethnography”, which showcases innovative ethnographic work by both new and established scholars.
The World Migration Report 2015 takes migration enquiries to the city level. It aims to increase understanding of the local socioeconomic dynamics of migration and the close connection between migration and urban development.
For several decades now, Kenworthy and Newman have been examining the impact of transport on urban sustainability.
This book examines the theoretical evolution of the organic city in different time periods of post-war Europe, the United States and Latin America. The author also contrasts this with the practical experiences of seven case studies.
Kristin Szylvian’s research into the United States’ mutual housing associations draws on her dissertation study on Electric Heights – a housing development owned by a mutual housing association – in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.