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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Edited by Prof Jeff Waage and Christopher Yap from the London International Development Centre, Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development stems from an interdisciplinary project that began in 2013.
This English/Portuguese book is an example of how participatory planning, which puts citizens at the heart of community improvement, can facilitate local responses to climate change challenges.
This book highlights the author’s decade-long, largely ethnographic research on securitization efforts in the two largest economies in Latin America, Brazil and Mexico.
This book describes some elements and purposes of French urban planning models in foreign territories. The author seeks to promote understanding of the channels or conduits employed in efforts to diffuse these models.
In The Pedestrian and the City Carmen Hass-Klau brings us a remarkable volume of content.
This book emerged from discussions during the 2011 World Water Week, which revealed a need to focus on a variety of issues surrounding water and Latin American cities from a development perspective.
In this second edition of Key Concepts in Urban Studies, Professor Panu Lehtovuori from Tampere University of Technology, Finland joins with the original authors, Mark Gottdiener and Leslie Budd, to “critically analyze the dynamic changes in the field of urban studies” (p.
This book collects essays on situations of health deprivation among the poor, with discussions of the social movements that have emerged to address this. The geographical cases span India, Colombia, Uganda, and Latin America.
Based upon the Lionel Robbins Lectures given by Nicholas Stern in 2012, this book’s core mantra is to act now rather than later in tackling climate change.
The Art of Public Space grew out of a research project of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town.