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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City Savers: how the Poor, the DFID and its Partners are Promoting Financial Services in Urban India
THIS PAPER PROVIDES a short introduction to the range and diversity of micro-finance initiatives that are found in India’s cities.
Migration has long played a key role in shaping the size and distribution of the population of Pakistan.
MOST OF THE chapters in this book consider either basic services (most water supply and sanitation) or community participation. It combines 19 chapters on India with two general chapters and seven that look at experiences from other countries.
Most of the world’s population now live in urban centres, where virtually all population growth in the next century will also be absorbed.
Without equitable management of land and finances the housing needs of the majority of Karachiites who are poor communities, cannot be taken care of.
South Africa is one of the most urbanised countries in Africa. Urbanisation has been a source of controversy posing dilemmas for successive governments and resulting in wide-ranging interventions to control it in various ways.
This paper explores patterns of urban growth and urbanization in Russia, linking them to social, economic, political and demographic processes.
This paper describes the urbanization experience of Brazil, the largest country in Latin America and also a nation that has attained levels of urbanization that surpass those of most European countries.
IN THESE TIMES of increasing globalization, the future of major cities is undoubtedly one of metropolization, and the challenge is to manage, in a democratic way, millions of inhabitants spread out over wide areas and separated by differences in income, cultural background and citizenship.
THIS IS ONE of three volumes which together form the Environmental Planning and Management source book. Volume I is the main document, synthesizing and analyzing the practical experiences of cities and international programmes in urban environmental planning and management.