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 IS ONE of a number of publications resulting from a research project on Urban Poverty and Social Policy in the Context of Adjustment undertaken by the Urban Development Division of the World Bank.
THIS PAPER IS intended as a comprehensive review of the issues and questions that policy makers must examine and answer when deciding upon infrastructural investments in urban areas.
THIS IS THE eighteenth paper in a series put out by the Urban Management Programme and will be of interest to anyone concerned with environmental problems in cities. After an executive summary, the first chapter looks at the links between urbanization, development and the environment.
PLA Notes (Notes on Participatory Learning and Action), a journal published by the International Institute of Environment and Development three times in a year, presents papers by practitioners and field workers on participatory methodologies from all over the world.
This Digest, compiled primarily by Maggie Black and Jonathan Blagbrough, addresses a significant issue for many of the world's cities - the use of children as live-in domestic workers.
THIS PAPER EVALUATES the effectiveness and impact of the upgrading component of a major housing project initiated by the US Agency for International Development in partnership with the government of Egypt in 1976.
DESPITE A LONG history of NGO activity, there have been relatively few overviews of the work of NGOs that address urban poverty. This recently published volume, based on recent research, offers some insights into the work of NGOs in five cities in the South.
THIS PUBLICATION BY the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights focuses on how poor people deal with eviction.
This paper opens with the recognition of extreme dual landscapes of Brazilian cities and an outline of the research design utilised for this study.