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 EDITED VOLUME contains a number of perspectives in regard to understanding housing and users’ preferences, and particular emphasis is placed on the physical structures of housing.
The papers in this book are outcomes of an international training programme offered by Housing Development and Management (HDM) Lund University, carried out in conjunction with the third World Urban Forum held in Vancouver, Canada, in 2006.
This book is the result of a competition held by a trusteeship of two Mexican governmental bodies – the National Commission on Public Housing and the National Council of Science and Technology – in support of scientific and technological research on housing issues.
Most of the historic sites on the World Heritage list are located in the urban areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America, where the combination of growing populations and inadequate infrastructure presents particular challenges for preservation.
THE HEALTHY CITIES movement grew out of a recognition that advances in health within European and North American cities over the last century and a half were a function not so much of efforts in the health profession as of local government action.
THIS BOOK PRESENTS a comprehensive account of the Healthy City initiative which, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), seeks to put health on the agenda of decision makers in cities.
AT THE HEART of this book is the notion that an urgent change is needed in America to realign concepts of urban planning and public health.
THIS VOLUME REVIEWS the applicability of rural primary health care experience to urban settings. Various research approaches to urban public health are considered, with the authors demonstrating the importance of applying research to policy problems.
THIS PUBLICATION IS issued from a larger project supported by the European Commission to address issues relating to health and human settlements in Latin America.