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 grew out of an international workshop held in June 2006 at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC; it seeks to generate interest and discussion on the usefulness and applicability of an assets accumulation framework.
THIS PUBLICATION HAS been compiled by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), an international network of poverty researchers whose major objective is to improve the quality of poverty research and to promote comparative studies on poverty.
Legal rules significantly affect the distribution of income, assets and power. Background rules of property (now including intellectual property), family, contract, legal capacity and tort law partially create and perpetuate wealth imbalances within and between nations.
THIS PRESENTS A beautifully illustrated comparative study of nineteenth and twentieth century urban design and plan development practices in four port cities: London, Barcelona, New York and Rotterdam.
BROUGHT OUT BY the Population Division of the United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects is a biannual publication which presents a revised and updated estimate, as well as a projection, of the rural and urban populations of all the countries in the world and their urban agglomerations.
THIS IS A detailed report and analysis of findings from a household survey from a representative sample of the inhabitants of Nairobi’s informal settlements carried out in 2000.
Through case studies, this collection invites a re-appraisal of the links between urban population, development and the environment.
THIS REPORT COMBINES detailed statistics and technical analyses of pollution levels in Indian cities with a close examination of the political and economic background in which these extremely high levels of pollution are being produced.
In 1946, the Jesuit seminarian John Carroll and 11 other Jesuits took a boat from the United States to the Philippines, a country that would become his home for the rest of his life.