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 PUBLICATION IS a compilation of essays by many authors on different conceptual issues and policies, the dynamics of change from within and the realities on the ground in Brazil.
PART OF THE World City Series, this book traces the emergence of Buenos Aires as the Southern Cone’s primary metropolitan centre and describes its drive towards attaining world city status.
THIS BOOK LOOKS at the impact of urban poverty on adolescent girls and young women, who face particular challenges that are often overlooked in discussions of both urban poverty and children. The first chapter draws from a wide range of
Studies on gentrification have seen a significant resurgence in recent years and much of the current work on gentrification has been integrated with other important areas of urban research.
THIS SHORT PUBLICATION argues that women remain largely invisible in research and statistics on human settlements development, and what little relevant information does exist is seldom used to inform policy making.
THIS DOCUMENT CAME out of an International Seminar on Gender, Urbanization and Environment in Nairobi in June 1994 and drew on the ideas of more than 80 participants and on the 50 papers presented.
THIS PRESENTS THE proceedings of a seminar organized by One World Action and the British Council held in June 2000. The seminar sought to examine the service delivery side of gender issues.
THROUGH STUDIES IN Zimbabwe, Zambia and Lesotho, the authors of this volume consider the relation of gender to the physical environment, principally via investigations of divorce proceedings and related legal issues.