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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THE BUILDING MUNICIPAL Capacity Series is a series of sourcebooks for local government capacity-building, funded by DFID’s Knowledge and Research programme. The series is aimed at promoting effective and sustainable forms of service delivery to poor people living in urban areas in the South.
This book is one of several outputs from a two-year research project coordinated by the Development Planning Unit, University College London, seeking to document the nature and impact of a series of urban interventions in low-income areas in Medellín, Colombia’s second largest city.
THIS PAPER DESCRIBES the environmental impacts of mining by Southern Peru Limited on the town of Ilo in southern Peru.
THIS IS THE synthesis report for the UN Millennium Project which is advising the United Nations on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. It stresses that these ambitious goals can be met and outlines what needs to be done to meet them.
THIS BOOK DRAWS from extensive consultations with a range of specialist organizations to offer guidelines on developing and implementing settlement and shelter strategies.
THIS IS THE latest volume in the series of Global Reports on Human Settlements that UN Habitat has been preparing since 1987.
At a time when nearly every river in India is polluted, this story of the Yamuna River, which flows through Delhi, is an example of the challenges faced by Indian municipalities, with increasing volumes of sewage and wastewater to manage.
Saiban is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Karachi that develops plot settlements. It sells unserviced plots to residents who can pay for the land over five years, allowing them build their homes at their own pace.
THIS COLLECTION OF essays is the result of a series of meetings and workshops that gathered together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars, geographers, sociologists, urban theorists and Asian regional specialists interested in the global shift to service industries and the implications
THE INCREASING INTEREST in identity and ethnicity studies in social science has increased interest in the study of socio-spatial segregation. The aim of measuring segregation is to examine spatial distributions of the population according to a variety of features.