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 SOURCE BOOK, illustrated with line drawings of historic buildings or other city views, is divided into three parts:
·an international directory of institutions and programmes plus historic sites;
THIS BOOK DESCRIBES a set of initiatives by low-income communities in Karachi (Pakistan), whose residents have sought to improve their living conditions by way of self-help activities and who have organized themselves to lobby government agencies for the provision of infrastructure to fulfill the
THIS VOLUME COMBINES a series of case studies that demonstrate the links between health, development and environmental issues within different sectors and countries with introductory overviews.
STARTING FROM THE premise that local involvement brings unquestionable benefits to community-level planning and management, this handbook gets down to the practicalities in terms that are useful and accessible to all stakeholders. The
THIS USA-ORIENTED publication provides a broad range of practical information and ideas for individuals and groups who want to be effective participants in the urban growth debate.
This report presents 50 cases of successful housing upgrading projects in Thailand. The projects come from the Baan Mankong programme, launched by the Thai government in January 2003 as part of its effort to tackle the critical housing situation in the country’s poorest urban enclaves.
THIS BOOK IS a detailed account of the development of three low-income community organizations in the metropolitan area of Mexico City during the 1970s and 1990s.
THIS BRIEF PUBLICATION is a newsletter of the Urban Poor Development F und in Cambodia. This initiative has existed since 1998, as a joint venture of the Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR), Phnom Penh Municipality and the Solidarity and Urban Poor Federation (SUPF).
THIS GUIDEBOOK IS aimed at WaterAid programmes and partners, in order to promote the understanding and use of community mapping as a participatory and development tool.
THIS VOLUME CONSISTS almost entirely of detailed survey maps of 100 katchi abadis (informal settlements) in Karachi. For each katchi abadi there are four maps which show:
· location in the larger city, and relevant statistics on population, area, households and development efforts;