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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FROM BEING REGARDES as a success story in the early post-colonial period, average incomes in Kenya have fallen dramatically in the 1990s. Only two countries in Africa, Sierra Leone and South Africa, have a more unequal distribution of income.
THIS BOOK WAS prompted by the second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements, held in Istanbul in 1996. The editor was involved in preparatory work for the conference, in which some of her masters' students from the London School of Economics showed great interest.
THIS BOOK IS a result of an action-research exercise jointly undertaken by a number of international and local non-government organisations based in four continents.
THIS BOOK EXPLORES the role of the law, and illegality, in the process of urban change.
With the understanding that effective poverty reduction is multi-dimensional, this volume is a collection of papers examining such approaches within NGO projects and programmes.
THE URBAN COMMUNITY Development Office (UCDO) was established in 1992 as a result of a study into why the urban poor were continuing to miss out on the prosperity from Thailand's economic boom.
THIS SHORT VOLUME discusses the processes through which the World Bank Office in Indonesia is seeking to be effective in poverty reduction. The study emerged from a partnership agreement between the World Bank and the Department for International Development (UK).
The FORTAL programme (Strengthening of Alliances against Urban Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean) was a two-year international multi-sectoral experience led by institutions from Argentina, Peru and Costa Rica.