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
(For a searchable database of papers in Environment and Urbanization, go to http://eau.sagepub.com/)
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DAVID KORTEN’S NEW book challenges the foundation of capitalism's claim to legitimacy by demonstrating that it is destroying real wealth, democracy and markets at every turn.
THIS BOOK SUMMARIZES the findings of the project entitled Capacity Building for the Urban Environment and of a seminar held to discuss initiatives and research in Bolivia, India, Peru and Senegal.
THE ISSUE OF standards is familiar to those working on low-income housing throughout the world.
THIS GRAPHICALLY RICH and beautifully designed book is at once an atlas of Lhasa, an history, a description of its architecture and townscape, a full account of conservation efforts and a detailed walking guide to the city.
In the words of one of the contributors to this short volume, up to about 250 years ago architects only served the interests of kings, princes and bishops. Their work for more ordinary clients is a relatively recent phenomenon.
THIS BOOK STARTS with an introduction to Angola. Thirty years of war have devastated a potentially rich country, forcing large numbers of people to migrate into overcrowded urban areas which suffer from some of the worst health and environmental problems in the world.
THIS EDITED VOLUME brings together a number of papers presented at an IDS workshop on Power, Procedures and Relationships.
THIS IS A guide to help NGOs from the South find funding for environment and development projects from European funders.
THIS IS THE sixth edition of this annual analysis of the aid and development policies of the world’s donor nations.
THIS IS THE seventh annual analysis of the aid and development policies of the world's donor nations, based this time on figures from 1998 and undertaken from the perspective of effective poverty eradication.