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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THE BOLIVIAN PLAN for Housing, 2003 estimates that approximately 80 per cent of the existing housing in the country is the result of the efforts of people, with no support from formal financial systems.
"Housing and Land in Hanoi" is the second booklet of a series of three: "Shelter and living in Hanoi n.1" and "Popular Housing in Hanoi n.3".
Since Vietnam’s economic renovation (Doi Moi), in the late 80’s, housing has overwhelmingly become an activity that is undertaken by urban households.
THIS REPORT ANALYZES avenues and opportunities for pursuing housing rights claims within the Inter-American human rights system.
Gated communities have become common forms of housing development in cities around the world.
THIS IS A basic primer on sustainable approaches to low-cost housing provision and settlement upgrading.
A growing imperative for national development plans and policies is to incorporate a broader vision for their housing sectors, beyond the traditional argument of social need and towards an enhanced contribution of housing to accelerated economic growth.
THIS DOCTORAL THESIS provides an in-depth examination of housing transformation in informal settlements undertaken by the residents in these areas in order to improve their living conditions in the absence of an alternative housing supply.
THIS COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY provides an overview of the information dealing with housing rights generally and with specific areas such as: forced evictions and displacement; housing and property restitution; women’s rights to adequate housing; the implementation and enforcement of housing rig
This discusses the process of institutionalization of the national housing policy of Guatemala between 1996 and 2003.