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 BOOK OFFERS a succinct and clear presentation of changes to the system of providing housing finance in England.
THIS EDITED VOLUME discusses the use of small loans to support housing investments within incremental housing strategies. Such an approach draws on, but extends beyond, the microfinance traditions that are used to support income generation in the South.
The author develops a framework for evaluating the sustainability of government-led housing finance programmes, while recognizing that solutions should be adapted to local conditions.
In Argentina, the 2001 national census showed that more than 2,600,000 households lived in deficient dwellings. This means slightly more than 13 million inhabitants, or 36 per cent of the national total population.
THIS REPORT DESCRIBES two innovative housing schemes, one in central Beijing and one in Daxing county, a rural area to the south of Beijing.
ARGENTINA UNDERWENT A housing crisis in 1994, whereby both conceptual models and state policy broke down.
RECENT STATISTICS (1991) show that more than one-third of Argentineans have unsatisfactory living conditions. This book highlights the fact that low-income households do not have sufficient funds to improve their own housing.
THIS BOOK DESCRIBES the Viviendas del Hogar de Cristo project which, to date, has provided 30,000 houses in Guayaquil, a city where 600,000 people are estimated to live in very poor conditions.
THIS ENCYCLOPAEDIA PROVIDES a substantial reference for readers regarding key issues relating to housing.
THIS IS A chronology of United Nations activity in the housing field and includes a brief history of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.