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 PRESENTS an overview of urban environmental issues in Peru and Bolivia. It contains three main sections.
THIS BOOKLET PRESENTS the findings from a DFID-funded project entitled Performance Monitoring of Infrastructure Procurement for Urban Low-income Communities.
This book has short profiles of every informal settlement and informal market in Nairobi and includes details of the settlements’ origins, the threats to land tenure, details about the land and its ownership, the population, housing and services, and main sources of employment.
DESPITE THE FACT that few rapidly urbanizing cities are as old as the historic stone towns, settlements in these cities constitute layers of development characterized by certain urban types and neighbourhood spaces which are yet to be systematically identified, classified and analyzed.
This book draws on field research and studio-based projects on Dharavi, the large informal settlement in Mumbai. The field research was conducted by staff and students from the Development Planning Unit (University College London) between 2009 and 2012.
The changing experiences of Rio’s low-income populations are captured in this book, which reports on the fortunes of a set of families.
Africa’s Informal Workers: Collective Agency, Alliances and Transnational Organizing in Urban Africa
This edited volume demonstrates the depth of associations representing informal workers in a range of contexts across Africa.
Situated against the United States’ context of rising social inequalities between the wealthy and the poor, the main hypothesis presented in this book is that “… place matters for low-income communities of colour because it is simultaneously a source of inequality and oppression and a context of
THIS BOOK COMPRISES a compilation of two general papers and eight case studies on the environmental impacts of industrial pollution in Latin America, focusing on the three most industrialized countries: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.
THE CALVERT-HENDERSON Quality of Life Indicators represent a first national (USA) comprehensive effort to redefine overall quality of life using a systems approach.