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 paper assesses the quality and extent of provision for water and sanitation in urban areas in Malawi – where more than 60 per cent of the population live in informal settlements. This assessment is based on a survey of 10 per cent of the households in nine low-income settlements.
AS A CONTRIBUTION by the World Health Organization (WHO) to Habitat II, this book is a collection of 28 papers drawn from the International Healthy and Ecological Cities Congress – Our City, Our Future held in Madrid in March 1995.
This working paper includes ten commissioned background papers that provided the basis for a workshop held at the Development Planning Unit in 2003.
THERE CAN BE few cities in both the North and the South for which there is such a comprehensive and well-presented book as this one describing Monterrey, Mexico’s second largest city. This volume includes nine sections, each with several chapters by leading specialists.
The Organization of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP) has worked in the Matabeleland region of Zimbabwe, one of the nation’s least developed regions, since 1980.